Search

Categories

Total Results

No Record Found

View All Results
DONATE

donal brown

Court rules anti-SLAPP law not a defense for law firm sued for malpractice

donal brown December 3, 2009

A California appeals court ruled that a law firm could not defend itself in a malpractice suit citing California’s anti-SLAPP laws since the client’s focus was on their attorney’s quality of performance rather than their speech and petitioning activities. -DB Metropolitan News-Enterprise December 3, 2009 By Kenneth Ofgang The anti-SLAPP statute does not protect a law firm from being sued for malpractice based on activities it performed on behalf of the client who later sued

Read More »

Corporation’s attempt to out anonymous online critics runs afoul of First Amendment

donal brown December 3, 2009

USA Technologies has filed a lawsuit against two message board posters who criticized the management of the publicly traded company in the light of falling stock prices and high compensation packages. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is defending the critics against subpoenas on Yahoo! seeking the identity of the posters. -DB Electronic Frontier Foundation Commentary December 2, 2009 By Matt Zimmerman A Pennsylvania publicly-traded company has become the latest corporate entity to use the legal system

Read More »

Eastern California: Charged with violating open government law, supervisors dump closed door subcommittee

donal brown December 3, 2009

To avoid charges of violating the Brown Act, the Inyo County Board of Supervisors voted to shut down the Klondike Lake Subcommitee whose meeting have been closed to the public. -DB Sierra Wave November 24, 2009 By Benett Kessler The Inyo Supervisors got the Klondike Lake issue off their backs Tuesday, stating they didn’t want to face misdemeanor charges for violating the Brown Act of open meeting laws. Richard McKee of CalAware had sent the supervisors

Read More »

Federal judge in Arkansas dismisses defamation suit against Dixie Chicks

donal brown December 3, 2009

A federal district court dismissed a defamation suit against the Dixie Chicks over a letter on their website that asked for support for the “West Memphis Three”, then teenagers, convicted of murdering three eight-year-old boys in 1993. Two HBO documentaries cast doubt on the guilt of the teenagers. -DB Citizen Media Law Project Opinion December 2, 2009 By Sam Bayard Yesterday, a federal district court in Arkansas dismissed Terry Hobbs’ defamation lawsuit against Dixie Chicks

Read More »

Connecticut Catholic diocese forced to release documents of allegations of priests’ sexual abuse

donal brown December 3, 2009

After losing a seven-year fight to keep documents of priests’ sex abuse sealed, the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut released the documents that reveal graphic descriptions of abuse and the failure of the Diocese to act on parents’ complaints about the priests. -DB The Hartford Courant December 2, 2009 By Dave Altimari, Edmund H. Mahony, Matthew Kauffman and Alaine Griffin Even as a young seminary student, Raymond Pcolka’s psychiatric problems caused doctors to question whether he

Read More »