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Pentagon bans reporters from covering Guantanamo hearings

donal brown May 10, 2010

The Pentagon banned four reports from covering military commissions at Guantanamo on the grounds that they violated prohibitions on publishing the name of a former Army interrogator who was a witness at a hearing. -db McClatchy Newspapers May 6, 2010 By Nancy A. Youssef WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pentagon Thursday banned four reporters, including one from McClatchy Newspapers, from covering future military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, charging that they’d violated ground rules by publishing

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Federal judge orders filmmaker to relinquish film footage to Chevron in case about polluting Amazon rain forest

donal brown May 10, 2010

While rejecting Chevron’s argument that a reporters privilege does not apply to documentarians, a federal judge nonetheless ruled the filmmaker had to give film footage to Chevron since he had not promised his sources confidentiality. -db Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press May 7, 2010 By Cristina Abello A New York federal judge on Thursday ruled that though a reporter’s privilege applies to a documentary filmmaker, he must still hand over unused footage to Chevron

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Grassroots effort to pass law to close loophole in Oregon’s Public Meetings Law

donal brown May 10, 2010

A Democratic Party leader from Astoria, Oregon contends that county commissioners convened serial private meetings conducted in pairs to avoid the three-person quorum, undermining the state’s open meetings law. -db The Daily Astorian Letter to Editor May 7, 2010 By Larry Taylor Clatsop County Democrats voted to seek passage of legislation in Oregon to end the circumvention of the state’s Public Meetings Law. The public’s tolerance for this practice has ended. Clatsop County Commissioners have

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Attorney argues tattooing protected by First Amendment

donal brown May 10, 2010

An attorney for a client contesting Hermosa Beach’s law banning tattoo parlors argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that that tattooing should be protected under the First Amendment as are other expressive art form such as painting, dance or music.  -db Metropolitan News-Enterprise May 10, 2010 By Kenneth Ofgang An ordinance banning tattoo parlors is unconstitutional, an attorney whose client wants to open one in Hermosa Beach told the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court

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Free speech: High school admiistrator sends students home for wearing American flag

donal brown May 7, 2010

When some Live Oak High School students wore flags on their clothing during Cinco de Mayo day to show their patriotism and their support of legal immigration, an assistant principal feared violence and asked the boys to wear the clothes inside out or leave campus. To mark the Mexican holiday, many Latino students were wearing the Mexican flag colors of red, white and green. -db San Jose Mercury News May 7, 2010 By Lisa Fernandez

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