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Las Vegas Sun series on construction deaths wins CFAC Sunlight award

firstamendment June 2, 2009

By Donal Brown The California First Amendment Coalition today announced that the 2009 Sunlight Award has been given to reporter Alexandra Berzon and the Las Vegas Sun for an investigative series of 50 articles on the high rate of accidental deaths among construction workers at a huge casino construction site on the Las Vegas strip. The Sunlight Award, given jointly by CFAC and the Associated Press, recognizes journalistic excellence in news coverage that uses government

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Nonprofits to downsizing law firms: Loan us your laid off junior lawyers; we'll return them when the economy recovers

firstamendment June 2, 2009

By Peter Scheer A mind is a terrible thing to waste. So is a highly skilled and expensively trained junior lawyer at a large law firm. That is what law firms across the country must be thinking as they hand out pink slips to very talented, but now underutilized, young lawyers (aka “associates”): over 1,200 in just January and February of 2009 (according to the running tally on lawshucks.com), including 190 associates let go by

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CFAC files brief to lift gag in BART homicide case

firstamendment June 2, 2009

The California First Amendment Coalition has asked a Superior Court judge in Oakland to rescind his gag order in the highly publicized prosecution of a former BART police officer who is charged with murder for the shooting death–captured on numerous cellphone videos uploaded to Youtube–of Oscar Grant III on New Year’s Day. The Coalition’s brief, written by Keker & Van Nest lawyers Paven Malhotra and Cody Harris, argues that the judge’s gag order “denies the

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CFAC and MAPLight sue for public access to state’s legislative database

firstamendment June 2, 2009

The California First Amendment Coalition filed suit today against the Legislative Counsel’s office in Sacramento. With our co-petitioner, MAPLight.org, we are seeking a copy of California’s full legislative database–the texts of bills, amendments, votes, dates, etc.—for all legislation. Although the public currently can access this info one bill at a time through the state’s official website, that does not allow computer-assisted analysis of the data. MAPLight’s service, for example, highlights the influence of money on

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CFAC Update: Acting globally and locally: From internet censorship in China to a TRO against Atherton, CA

firstamendment June 2, 2009

Acting globally and locally: From internet censorship in China to a TRO against Atherton, CA By Peter Scheer This is to update CFAC supporters on our latest efforts to stir up trouble on behalf of First Amendment freedoms. I’m pleased to report that CFAC has managed to create a whole lot of trouble, both globally and locally, in the last 2 months. First globally: CFAC has initiated a proceeding that will attempt to use international

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