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Federal panel asks for detail in journalists’ suit against anti-immigration sheriff

donal brown June 22, 2010

To proceed with their case, journalists attempting to sue Joe Arpaio for civil rights violations must show that the sheriff was directly involved in issuing an order for their arrest for printing a grand jury subpoena. -db Legal Pad Blog Commentary June 21, 2010 By Dan Levine Remember when Joe Arpaio — the immigrant-hating Arizona sheriff who makes his inmates wear pink underpants — lived the dream of many a cop by having his leading

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Supreme Court blocks advising terrorists in non-violence

donal brown June 22, 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected free speech arguments in ruling 6-3 that U.S. organizations could not provide non-violent legal training or advice to designated terrorist groups. -db McClatchy Newspapers June 21, 2010 By Michael Doyle WASHINGTON, D.C.  — The Supreme Court on Monday bolstered law enforcement in national security cases, permitting prosecution of U.S. organizations that provide non-violent legal training or advice to designated terrorist groups. In the year’s most anticipated war-on-terrorism decision, the court

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California superior court judge rules UC Berkeley police seized journalist’s photos illegally

donal brown June 22, 2010

A superior court judge ruled that University of California police had improperly searched a journalist’s camera during a protest at the UC chancellor’s home in December. The judge ordered all photos returned to the journalist. -db San Jose Mercury News June 21, 2010 By Matt Krupnick An Alameda County judge has ruled UC Berkeley police improperly searched a journalist’s camera after a December protest at Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s campus home. Friday’s ruling by Superior Court

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Chinese stop Hong Kong printing of memoirs by ex-premier

donal brown June 21, 2010

The Chinese government blocked the Hong Kong publication of ex-premier Li Peng already banned in the mainland. Li Peng brought a violent end to the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989 and reportedly had claimed in his memoir that China’s current leaders supported the military’s attack on the student demonstrators. -db The New York Times June 20, 2010 By Andrew Jacobs BEIJING — A Hong Kong publisher said Sunday that he was forced to halt the

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Tech blogger says premature to announce death of libel

donal brown June 21, 2010

With a dearth of libel suits against leading news outlets, some say libel is dying now that multiple platforms exist for stating a case. But TechDirt’s Mike Masnick says that libel suits are alive and well directed at online suits to coerce deletion of comments. -db TechDirt Opinion June 18, 2010 By Mike Masnick A few folks have sent over a recent article from The New York Observer declaring that “the end of libel” is

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