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Texas cheerleader refusing to cheer for attacker sues for free speech rights

donal brown November 8, 2010

An ex-Texas high school cheerleader is appealing a verdict by the federal appeals court that held that her school was within their rights to kick her off the cheerleading squad when she refused to cheer for a basketball player accused of raping her. -db San Francisco Chronicle Analysis November 5, 2010 By Bob Egelko If you’re a high school cheerleader, you cheer for the whole team. The stars and the scrubs. The nice guys and

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Presidential order seeks uniformity in handling unclassified information

donal brown November 8, 2010

President Barack Obama ordered government agencies to conduct more open and uniform practices in handling unclassified data subject to exemptions from full exclosure. -db The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press November 5, 2010 By Stephen Miller President Barack Obama released an executive order Thursday calling for a more open and uniform approach to handling unclassified information that is subject to statutory exemptions from full disclosure. Critical of governmental agencies’ current “inefficient, confusing patchwork”

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Oregon: Man settles free speech suit after sheriff agrees to give employees civil rights training

donal brown November 4, 2010

An Oregon man settled a federal suit for $4000. against the Clackamas County  sheriff deputies who arrested him for flipping them off. -db The Oregonian November 2, 2010 By Steve Mayes A man who claimed deputies harassed him after he flipped them off has settled a federal lawsuit against Clackamas County. Robert J. Ekas received $4,000, including $600 for legal costs. Ekas, who lives near Happy Valley, sued the county last year, claiming that deputies

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Electronic Frontier Foundation suing Righthaven over copyright

donal brown November 3, 2010

EFF is representing the proprietor of nobodycases.co, a site that tracks unsolved murder cases, in a copyright suit brought by Righthaven after the site ran a Las Vegas Review-Journal story about a Nevada murder case. -db Wired November 1, 2010 By David Kravets Copyright troll Righthaven is facing its second lawsuit from digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is representing a former federal prosecutor who tracks mysterious murder cases on his website. Thomas DiBiase

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Newspaper industry pushing for greater access and openness to California’s courts

donal brown November 2, 2010

The California Newspaper Publishers Association has joined with the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times Co. and the Association Press to endorse reforms favorable to the media in a draft from the state Bench-Bar-Media Committee. -db California Newspaper Publishers Association November 1, 2010 The newspaper industry has filed comments with the Judicial Council on the draft report of the statewide Bench-Bar-Media (BBM) Committee. The BBM Committee, created by Chief Justice Ronald M. George at

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