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Spying scandal: Suburban Philadelphia school district took thousands of webcam images of students

donal brown April 19, 2010

According to court filings, the Lower Merion School District used district-issued Macbooks to spy on its students, taking thousands of webcam images of students without their knowledge. -db Wired April 16, 2010 By David Kravets A webcam spying scandal at a suburban Philadelphia school district is broadening, with lawyers claiming the district secretly snapped thousands of webcam images of students using school-issued laptops without the pupils’ knowledge or consent. Some of the images included pictures

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California state court rules suit over organic label not SLAPP

donal brown April 19, 2010

The First District Court of Appeals rules that a suit brought by a trade organization over certification of beauty products as “organic” did not deprive a company of its right to free speech. -db Metropolitan News-Enterprise April 15, 2010 By Sherri M. Okamoto An action seeking to enjoin a trade organization from certifying beauty and personal care products as meeting the group’s standards as “organic” was not a strategic lawsuit against public participation, the First

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Federal Judge rules Klan can hold picnic at public Civil War historical site

donal brown April 19, 2010

A federal district judge says the Missouri Department of Natural Resource could not prevent the Ku Klux Klan from renting a part of a Civil War historical site for a picnic. But it is unlikely the picnic will take place after the judge also required the Klan to post a $1,800 bond and obtain $300,000 in liability insurance. -db Courthouse News Service April 15, 2010 By Joe Harris ST. LOUIS (CN) – Missouri parks officials

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First Amendment Coalition & SacBee file suit for names of Sacramento County retirees with highest pensions

donal brown April 19, 2010

The Sacramento Bee and the First Amendment Coalition have filed a lawsuit to force the Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System to release the names of all its retirees with pensions of over $100,000. -db The Sacramento Bee April 16, 2010 By Robert Lewis —The Sacramento Bee and the First Amendment Coalition on Thursday filed a lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court to compel the Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System to release the names of retirees getting

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CIA admits destroying tapes of abusive interrogations

donal brown April 19, 2010

The Central Intelligence Agency admitted that the agency’s top officials destroyed hundreds of tapes depicting abusive interrogations of suspects. -db The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press April 16,2010 By Miranda Fleschert The Central Intelligence Agency released email messages on Thursday that reveal the former director of the agency approved of — and joked about — the decision made by top officials to destroy hundreds of tapes depicting the abusive interrogation of detainees in

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