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Los Angeles County investigates improper release of information on child death and neglect cases

donal brown August 16, 2010

Los Angeles County have asked departments to investigate inappropriate disclosure of child welfare information, but in making the request in a closed meeting, according to legal experts, have violated the California’s open meeting law, the Brown Act. -db Los Angeles Times August 15, 2010 By Lisa Girion Los Angeles County officials are investigating information released regarding a string of child death and neglect cases involving the Department of Children and Family Services. The information appeared

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Judgment Vindicates Calif. Student Punished for Pro-Life T-Shirt

FAC August 13, 2010

Tiffany Amador won a free speech case in Federal Court after officials barred her from wearing her American Life League pro-life T-shirt, featuring the word “ABORTION,” at McSwain Union Elementary School in Merced, California. Christian Newswire August 13, 2010 By Katie Walker kwalker@all.org WASHINGTON — American Life League celebrated a free speech victory after a federal court entered a judgment on Thursday that a California elementary school and three school officials violated the First, Fourth and

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Mass. curriculum can exclude questioners of Armenian genocide

FAC August 13, 2010

A federal appeals court has ruled that Massachusetts public school guidelines for teaching history can exclude viewpoints that dispute the mass slaying of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in the early part of the 20th century. August 13, 2010 By The Associated Press BOSTON —The Aug. 11 decision by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the state did not violate free-speech rights in 1999 by excluding sources that questioned the Armenian genocide. Some

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ACLU turns over blogger IPs in Pa. defamation case

FAC August 13, 2010

A civil liberties group has surrendered the Internet protocol addresses from six posts on an online message board to a local western Pennsylvania official who claims the authors posted defamatory information about him. August 13, 2010 By The Associated Press PITTSBURGH — The American Civil Liberties Union, who intervened in the case, turned over two IPs on Aug. 11 after an Allegheny County judge last month ruled that Forward Township Supervisor Thomas DeRosa was entitled

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Federal appeals court tosses libel suit by cat breeders against Internet service provider

donal brown August 12, 2010

The 8th Circuit dismissed a libel suit by Cozy Kittens Cattery against an Internet service provider that ran what they said were defamatory comments about their cat breeding business. -db Online Media Daily August 11, 2010 By Wendy Davis A federal appellate court has upheld a ruling dismissing a libel lawsuit by cat breeders against the Internet service provider InMotion, which hosted a gripe site that contained allegedly defamatory posts by users. The 8th Circuit

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