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Pro-life T-shirt censorship case to go to jury

FAC July 27, 2010

A dress-code dispute over an anti-abortion T-shirt will head to trial in late August, after a federal district judge said it was an open question whether officials prohibited a student from wearing her shirt with pictures of fetuses because of its viewpoint or because it was too graphic. Commentary July 27, 2010 By David L. Hudson Jr. In April 2008, a sixth-grade student at McSwain Union Elementary School in  Merced, Calif., wore an anti-abortion shirt

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Superior Court judge orders newspaper not to publish details of legal dispute

FAC July 27, 2010

Superior Court Judge took the rare step of ordering The National Law Journal not to publish information ahead of publication The Washington Post Blog/ Commentary July 26, 2010 By Mike Debonis What should have been a boring trade-paper article about a pomegranate-juice company’s legal-fee dispute got a whole lot, er, juicier last week. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff took the rare step of ordering a newspaper not to publish information ahead of publication — a so-called “prior restraint.”

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Fla. tourism official says: “hold media in the Gulf accountable”

FAC July 27, 2010

The chairman of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association is urging Congress to hold the media “accountable” for what he alleges is inaccurate reporting on the Gulf oil spill that has hurt tourism in his state. AP July 27, 2010 By Frederic J. Frommer WASHINGTON — Keith Overton suggested at a hearing Tuesday that Congress charge a federal agency with reviewing news reporting. He complained many in media put “ratings ahead of accuracy” and exaggerated the

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D.C. judge issues injunction against news organization

FAC July 27, 2010

The National Law Journal has been prohibited by court order from publishing information it obtained legally. July 27, 2010 By The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press D.C. Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff issued a temporary restraining order against theNational Law Journal last Friday after she discovered the news organization was planning to publish a story regarding the fee dispute between District of Columbia-based law firm Hogan Lovells and one of its former clients,

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Cyberbullying case gets no traction in New York state

donal brown July 27, 2010

A New York state judge has ruled that cyberbullying does not constitute defamation and dismissed her suit against her high school classmates who wrote scurrilous statements about her on FaceBook. -db Cyberbullying case gets no traction in New York state Online Media Daily July 26, 2010 By Wendy Davis Writing that a classmate contracted a sexually transmitted disease and morphed into the devil might be a form of “cyberbullying,” but does not constitute defamation. That’s

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