Coalition News

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

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

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