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First Amendment: Michigan brewery sues liquor commission for banning ‘Raging Bitch’ beer

donal brown March 29, 2011

The Flying Dog Brewery has challenged the Michigan Liquor Control Commission for banning their best-selling beer, Raging Bitch. The commission objected to the beer’s label. Flying Dog CEO Jim Caruso said there was a larger principle at stake, “It’s about regulators gradually morphing into self-appointed thought police. We believe not only in freedom of speech and artistic expression for both businesses and individuals, but also in the individual’s fundamental right to choose or reject books,

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San Francisco police deny press passes to certain media outlets

donal brown March 29, 2011

The San Francisco Police Department has denied press passes to six news outlets on the grounds that the outlets are not regularly covering police and fire news. The police are also concerned that the passes have been used for entry to concerts and mayoral events. The owner of the San Francisco Sentinel, one of the six outlets, complained that although the police said they had covered no police news in the last year, he found

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Liberal group shifts from monitoring press and TV to concentrate on disrupting Fox News Channel

donal brown March 28, 2011

The liberal group Media Matters is gearing itself to concentrate solely on what its founder, David Brock, says is a campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” on the Fox News Channel. They will continue to collect embarrassing clips from Fox News and rebut Fox talking points while expanding the battlefield. Media Matters plans to convince advertisers to abandon Glenn Beck’s show, file lawsuits for defamation and invasion of privacy, investigate Fox executives and publish a

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Texas Open Meetings Act ruled constitutional

donal brown March 28, 2011

A federal district judge upheld the Texas Open Meetings Act in a case in which city council members from 11 cities joined to claim that the law violated their right to free speech. The judge rejected their reasoning citing “the compelling interest in governmental transparency.” The plaintiffs has claimed that the law was overreaching and vague making it impossible to interpret its meaning in conducting government business. -db From the Star-Telegram, March 25, 2011. Full

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Former federal prosecutor loses case over reporter’s sources

donal brown March 28, 2011

A federal judge ruled against a former federal prosecutor claiming a confidential source from the Department of Justice violated his privacy rights by talking with a reporter. In his decision the judge said that the former prosecutor could not prevail in his case against the Department of Justice (DOJ) because he needed to show that the department “willfully violated his rights” under the Privacy Act and that the person leaking information to the press was

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