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George Carlin: Rethinking a free speech icon

FAC July 16, 2010

As a new court ruling overturns the rules on TV cussing, a look back at the comic who helped start the debate Salon.com July 16, 2010 By Matt Zoller Seitz Thirty-two years after the Supreme Court ruled on a free speech case sparked by the George Carlin routine “Filthy Words,” profanity and the First Amendment are in the news again. A ruling handed down this week by the New York-based Second Court of Appeals all

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Judge: Law penalizing fake heroes unconstitutional

FAC July 16, 2010

A judge in Denver has ruled that a federal law making it illegal to lie about being a war hero is unconstitutional because it violates free speech. First Amendment News July 16, 2010 By AP DENVER —The ruling, made public Friday, came in the case of Rick Glen Strandlof, a Colorado man who claimed he was an ex-Marine wounded in Iraq and had received the Purple Heart and Silver Star. The military had no record

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Media groups side with Westboro protestors in court case

FAC July 16, 2010

Twenty-two media organizations have sided with a radical church against the father of a fallen Marine who is trying to sue it for picketing his son’s funeral. Stars and Stripes July 16, 2010 By Jeff Schogol ARLINGTON, Va. —The media organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Wednesday with the Supreme Court in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church, which protests near servicemembers’ funerals because it believes that troops’ deaths and other national tragedies are divine revenge

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Groups try to block law written to shield children on Internet

FAC July 16, 2010

Days after the state toughened up a law aimed at protecting children from offensive material online, advocacy groups moved to strike it down, saying the new law is too broad and cannot be enforced. The Boston Globe July 15, 2010 By John M. Guilfoil The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and a coalition of booksellers and website publishers filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking to block a new state law that went into effect on

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Agency mulling whether to release county pension pay data

FAC July 16, 2010

Bakersfield.com July 15, 2010 By James Burger The Kern County Employees’ Retirement Association, the agency that invests taxpayer money to fund county employee pensions, has kept the size of each member’s retirement check a secret for years. But the legal argument KCERA lawyers say demands secrecy is crumbling in courts across California, forcing them to choose between angering retirees and clinging to a law that may not stand up in court. On Wednesday The Californian

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