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First Amendment: State attorneys general sign ‘friend of court’ brief in Marine funeral case

donal brown June 3, 2010

Nearly every state in the union is backing the family of a Marine in a Supreme Court case pitting the rights of the Westboro Baptist Church to picket their son’s funeral against the family’s right to privacy. -db ABC News May 31, 2010 By Devin Dwyer WASHINGTON, D.C. – Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia are backing the family of fallen Marine Matthew Snyder in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide

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Family sues claiming rosary isn’t gang attire

donal brown June 3, 2010

The family of a New York seventh grader sued in federal court after the boy was suspended for wearing a rosary the school authorities claimed was beaded jewelry and thereby gang-related. -db Courthouse News Service June 3, 2010 By Barbara Leonard ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) – A Schenectady public school suspended a boy from seventh grade for wearing a rosary, because the school considers beaded jewelry “gang-related,” the boy’s family claims in Federal Court. The boy

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Defense Department clarifies policy on opening fundamental research

donal brown June 3, 2010

To discourage endemic secrecy for military research, the Defense Department reaffirmed a Reagan administration policy that the products of fundamental research should be presumed open unless nation security required them to be classified. -db Secrecy News June 3, 2010 By Steven Aftergood In a move that may help to discourage habitual secrecy in military-funded research, the Department of Defense last week reaffirmed a Reagan-era policy that the products of fundamental scientific research should normally be

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Posting police officer’s name on Internet found legal but repercussions troubling for Florida man

donal brown June 3, 2010

A Florida man arrested for posting a local police officer’s address on RateMyCop.com won a lawsuit on First Amendment grounds but has had problems getting a job since his arrest. -db Wired June 2, 2010 By David Kravets A Florida man arrested and briefly jailed for posting a local police officer’s home address on a cop-rating site said Wednesday his ordeal was “completely crazy.” “Just because I posted it, I got arrested. It wasn’t like

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Federal judge find fifth-graders drawing threatening

donal brown June 3, 2010

Reviewing evidence that a fifth-grader had a disciplinary record and was prone to violent expressions, a federal judge ruled that school officials met legal standards in suspending the boy. The judge said the boy’s history and actions met the “substantial disruption” test from Tinker v. Des Moines. -db First Amendment Center Analysis June 2, 2010 By David L. Hudson Jr. School officials in Montgomery, N.Y., were justified in suspending a fifth-grader for his threatening drawing,

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