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Gulf oil spill: Federal government forced to subpoena Transocean safety records

donal brown November 29, 2010

The federal government reached its limit in patience and issued subpoenas for 12 years of safety records from Transocean after this year’s disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. -db Courthouse News Service November 29, 2010 By Sabrina Canfield NEW ORLEANS (CN) – The United States says Transocean has blown off its demands for safety audits of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, whose explosion set off the worst oil spill in U.S.

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First Amendment lawyer criticizes arrest of reporters at demonstrations

donal brown November 29, 2010

The Executive Director of the First Amendment Center argues that the recent arrest of two reporters covering a protest at Fort Benning in Georgia is but the latest such arrest, a practice that should not be tolerated as an affront to basic freedoms of speech, the press, and assembly, core principles in the Constitution and the foundations of democracy. -db First Amendment Center Commentary November 29, 2010 By Gene Policinski The First Amendment is not

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Supreme Court to decide on free speech challenge of Arizona election-finance law

donal brown November 29, 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal brought by  opponents of  Arizona’s campaign finance law that they say violates the First Amendment. -db Reuters November 29 2010 By James Vicini WASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) – The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will decide another campaign finance law, taking up a challenge to Arizona’s system that provided money to political candidates who faced big-spending opponents. The high court, in a decision criticized by President

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Federal appeals court rules Homeland Security could withhold information on plans to prevent terrorist activity

donal brown November 29, 2010

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security could withhold information requested under the Freedom of Information Act concerning a government program to prevent terrorism during the 2004 elections and the ensuing inauguration. -db The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press November 24, 2010 By Rosemary Lane The U.S. Court of Appeals in New York (2nd Cir.) affirmed a lower court’s ruling Tuesday that the U.S.

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Federal court orders reporter to testify in immigration trial of anti-Castro militant

donal brown November 29, 2010

A reporter is under court order to testify in the  federal prosecution of a Cuban anti-Castro militant accused of lying to immigration and entering the country illegally. -db The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press November 22, 2010 By Daniel Skallman A federal court in El Paso, Texas, ordered a reporter to testify in a pre-trial hearing last week as part of a federal prosecution of a Cuban anti-Castro militant accused of lying to

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