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New Law Shields Online Media from Foreign Judgments

FAC August 5, 2010

With passage of the Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act, or theSPEECH Act, media companies will be protected against U.S. enforcement of foreign libel judgments when such judgments would conflict with First Amendment protections. Television and Broadcast August 5, 2010 WASHINGTON: The bill was co-sponsored by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). The House passed its version of the SPEECH Act, sponsored by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), in

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Judge bars LA Times from publishing photos

FAC August 5, 2010

A judge took the unusual and possibly unconstitutional step of barring a Los Angeles Times photographer from publishing images she allowed him to snap at a hearing for a man charged with murdering a Hollywood family. News August 5, 2010 By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES— Lawyers for the Times planned to ask the judge to reconsider the order, which a press group argued amounted to prior restraint that violates the First Amendment right to

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Chevron pushes ahead in key First Amendment case

FAC August 5, 2010

Oil giant Chevron got 421 tapes of footage from the documentary Crude by filmmaker Joe Berlinger, but First Amendment issues continue. Fortune Magazine August 5, 2010 By Roger Parloff FORTUNE — Now that Chevron has begun sifting through 421 tapes of unreleased footage from a documentary film called Crude — which a federal appeals court ordered filmmaker Joe Berlinger to turn over to the oil giant three weeks ago — the sensitive First Amendment issues

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Performance reviews of federal contractors go online

donal brown August 5, 2010

A new law requires the Office of Management and Budget to publish contractor integrity information online. -db NextGov August 4, 2010 By Aliya Sternstein A bill President Obama recently signed requires the Office of Management and Budget to disclose on a public website contractor integrity information housed in a new vendor performance database, reversing a recent decision by the Defense Department to block public access to the entire database. The supplemental appropriations bill (H.R. 4899),

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Senate works to exclude leaked war documents from federal shield law

donal brown August 5, 2010

In reaction to Wikileaks’ publication of Afghanistan war documents, Senators Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein are amending the proposed federal shield law to exclude websites that publish leaked government documents without editorial comment. -db Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press August 4, 2010 By Cristina Abello Legislators are amending the federal shield bill, which was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee in December 2009 but not yet brought up on the floor of the

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