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FBI chief: Surveillance rules not based on race, faith

FAC July 29, 2010

FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress yesterday that the bureau’s domestic-surveillance guidelines were being used properly and that agents were not employing them to target people for investigation on the basis of race. July 29, 2010 By The Associated Press WASHINGTON–The FBI director’s defense of the guidelines at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing followed criticism by civil liberties groups that the guidelines unfairly target innocent Muslims. The guidelines “do not target based on race,” Mueller

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Texas cities can’t challenge state’s open-meetings law

FAC July 29, 2010

Four Texas cities cannot join more than a dozen elected officials in a lawsuit aimed at overturning the Texas Open Meetings Act, a federal judge ruled yesterday. July 29, 2010 By The Associated Press PECOS, Texas —U.S. District Judge Robert Junell said the cities of Alpine, Pflugerville, Rockport and Wichita Falls cannot sue Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and the state over the act because the issue involved revolves around individual rights. The open-meetings law

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Judge gives online commenters First Amendment protection

FAC July 29, 2010

A judge’s ruling in a pre-trial motion involving a Gaston County murder case affirms that First Amendment protection extends to those who make anonymous comments about stories on news websites. The Star July 29, 2010 By Kevin Ellis Attorneys for Michael Mead had sought to force The Gaston Gazette to reveal information that could have been used to help reveal the identity of an anonymous commenter on the news organization’s website. But Superior Court Judge

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Video game group spent $1.1M lobbying in 2Q

FAC July 29, 2010

The Entertainment Software Association, a trade group for video game companies, spent $1.1 million during the second quarter to lobby on the regulation of video game content, First Amendment protection, parental control technology and other issues, according to a recent disclosure report. July 29, 2010 By The Associated Press WASHINGTON —This is down 5 percent from the $1.2 million spent in the same quarter a year earlier and in the first quarter of this year.

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Court rules student counselors must ‘affirm’ gay clients

FAC July 29, 2010

On Tuesday, a federal judge upheld the right of a counseling program at Eastern Michigan University to kick out a master’s student who declined to counsel gay clients in an affirming way — as required by the university program and counseling associations. USA TODAY July 29, 2010 By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed A month ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a dispute involving the right of public universities to enforce anti-bias rules as

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