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Republicans claim health care bill violates transparency law

donal brown January 12, 2010

Twenty-three Republican senators sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid claiming that the health care bill violated the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007. -DB Politico January 12, 2010 Twenty-three Republican senators sent a letter Tuesday to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) seeking a full accounting of provisions within the health care bill that benefitted individual states. They argue it violates the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007. The Honest

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Coalition files amicus brief supporting Northwestern University students with records under subpoena

donal brown January 12, 2010

A friend-of-the-court brief has been filed in support of Northwestern University journalism students working on a project seeking to prove the innocence of convicts under sentence for murder. The State Attorney is seeking their notes, interview tapes and other records to discredit their work on the project. -DB Student Press Law Center Press Release January 11, 2010 The Student Press Law Center filed a friend-of-the-court brief today on behalf of a coalition of journalism organizations

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2009 a bad year for free speech online

donal brown January 12, 2010

2009 was not a good year for free speech online as China and Iraq set a dismal standard. Even democratic countries considered ways to censor online expression. -DB MediaShift January 11, 2010 By Clothilde Le Coz 2009 was an unprecedented year for online repression. For the first time since the Internet emerged as a tool for public use, there are currently 100 bloggers and cyber-dissidents imprisoned worldwide as a result of posting their opinions online

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Judge rules Los Angeles City Council violated open meeting law on shopping center vote

donal brown January 12, 2010

A Superior Court judge found that the Los Angeles City Council violated the Brown Act, California’s open government law, by not giving the public sufficient notice of a meeting during which they approved a shopping center development in South Los Angeles. -DB The Los Angeles Times January 12, 2010 By David Zahniser A Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Monday that the Los Angeles City Council violated the state’s open meeting law by approving a 76,000-square-foot

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Jail for soldier writing rap song to protest his deployment to Iraq

donal brown January 12, 2010

A soldier and rap musician wrote a song that ironically put him into Liberty County Jail. The song protested his deployment to Iraq just as his military obligation was ending. -DB OpEdNews Opinion January 10, 2010 By Dave Lindorff In the ironically named Liberty County Jail since December 11 sits Army Specialist and Iraq War veteran Marc Hall, a rap musician who had the audacity to write a song attacking the Pentagon for subjecting him

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