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Women’s group sues Google for bloggers’ defamation

donal brown December 31, 2009

The National Association of Professional Women is suing Google and three other Web sites for publishing bloggers’ statements that say the organization is a scam. -DB Courthouse News Service December 31, 2009 By Barbara Leonard MINEOLA, N.Y. – The National Association of Professional Women claims Google and three other Web sites defamed it by allowing bloggers to publish defamatory statements that call the organization a “scam.” The NAPW says Google hosts at least four blogs

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President issues declassification order curbing secrecy

donal brown December 31, 2009

President Barack Obama issued a long anticipated order on declassification with the statement that no information should remain classified indefinitely. He eliminated a Bush order that allowed the intelligence community a veto over declassification decisions. -DB Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press December 30, 2009 By Amanda Becker President Obama on Monday issued an anticipated declassification order and memorandum to agency heads that dictates no records can be kept classified indefinitely during his administration.

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Prop. 8 proponents object to TV for hearing in federal court

donal brown December 30, 2009

Sponsors of Prop. 8 the ballot measure that banned same-sex in California say that television coverage of the court trial in San Francisco in January would result in harassment and intimidation of witnesses and other participants. -DB San Francisco Chronicle December 30, 2009 By Bob Egelko SAN FRANCISCO — Sponsors of California’s ban on same-sex marriage, which faces a federal court trial in San Francisco next month, have told the trial judge that his suggestion to

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Darkness Award highlight: California school district pays for censorship of student newspaper

donal brown December 27, 2009

The Fallbrook Union High School District who censored the student newspaper, cancelled the journalism program and reassigned the newspaper adviser agreed to pay the adviser $7,500 and reimburse the ACLU and its law firm $20,000 for legal costs. In October the First Amendment Coalition awarded its Darkness Award to Rod King, the principal responsible for canceling  the program and removing the adviser. -DB Student Press Law Center December 23, 2009 By Julia Chapman Fallbrook Union

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Judge affirms constitutionality of federal obscenity laws

donal brown December 26, 2009

A U.S. district judge refused to dismiss a case against a major pornography studio ruling that the federal obscenity laws offered sufficient guidance to the studio charged with transporting obscene material across state lines. -DB The Blog of Legal Times December 22, 2009 By Jordan Weissmann A U.S. district judge today refused to dismiss the Justice Department’s case against the owner of a major pornography studio, shooting down the defense’s argument that federal obscenity statutes

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