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Federal court rules city college sexual harassment policy counter to free speech rights

donal brown September 24, 2009

The Los Angeles Community College District must stop enforcing their sexual harassment policy after a federal court ruling upholding an injunction against the policy. A court will now entertain arguments to determine if the policy is reaching too far to trample the First Amendment rights of students. -DB Student Press Law Center September 23, 2009 By Michael Edwards CALIFORNIA — A federal district court ruled last week that the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) sexual harassment

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Obama to announce new policy on state secrets

donal brown September 23, 2009

The Obama administration is expected to make it harder for the government to invoke a “state secrets” claim when asked about such activities as rendition, wiretaps and treatment of terrorist suspects. -DB The Washington Post September 23, 2009 By Carrie Johnson The Obama administration will announce a new policy Wednesday making it much more difficult for the government to claim that it is protecting state secrets when it hides details of sensitive national security strategies

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Woodward’s “leaked” Aghanistan report was declassified. How could that happen without Obama’s OK?

Peter Scheer September 23, 2009

BY PETER SCHEER—On Monday, Washington Post investigative reporter nonpareil Bob Woodward caused a tremor inside the Beltway with an exclusive account of  Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s 66-page report to President Barack Obama, warning that without the deployment of more US troops, the administration’s Afghanistan policy will fail. There has followed the usual Washington parlor game of pundits and journalists speculating about who leaked the report to Woodward, and why.  By Tuesday the ascendant theory was that

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NEW name, NEW website, Bigger role, Same mission

Peter Scheer September 22, 2009

Welcome to our new website. In addition to a new home (and address) on the internet, we are also announcing our new name. Instead of “California First Amendment Coalition,” the name given this organization at its birth in 1988, we are now just “FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION.” We shrunk our name to confirm our expanding role in First Amendment litigation and policy, and to acknowledge the diminished relevance of any state’s borders in an era when

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Editorial questions doctrine of corporation constitutional rights

donal brown September 22, 2009

A New York Times editorial says that the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts seems to believe that U.S. corporations are entitled to legal rights commensurate to those of U.S. citizens. The Times argues that traditionally corporation rights have been limited for various practical reasons and are not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. -DB The New York Times Editorial September 22, 2009 The question at the heart of one of the biggest Supreme Court

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