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First Amendment Kiss-Off: Judge Judith Bartnoff

Peter Scheer September 22, 2010

A First Amendment Kiss-off to Judge Judith Bartnoff. The Washington, DC Superior Court judge must have missed school the day her law school class learned about the First Amendment. In a recent case involving a dispute between a law firm and its former client, the judge issued a TRO forbidding a legal newspaper, the National Law Journal, from publishing information about a Federal Trade Commission investigation of the client, even though the newspaper had obtained

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Google launches tool showing governments’ attempts at censorship

donal brown September 21, 2010

Google is now showing the number of requests from governments for removing content from its search page, Gmail, YouTube and other services. -db CNET September 21, 2010 By Lance Whitney In the wake of Google’s censorship battles with China and other nations, the search giant has launched a new tool to reveal which governments are blocking its services or requesting information on its users. The company’s new Transparency Report breaks down the information into two

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Federal district judge upholds Minnesota law requiring corporate disclosure of election spending

donal brown September 21, 2010

A U.S. district judge ruled that a Minnesota law requiring corporations and other interests to report their spending on elections helped the public evaluate speakers and their messages and did not violate the First Amendment. -db Star Tribune September 20, 2010 By James Walsh Saying that voters have “an interest in knowing who is speaking about a candidate on the eve of an election,” a federal judge on Monday refused to strike down a Minnesota

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Federal appeals court rules Oregon laws to protect children could violate First Amendment

donal brown September 21, 2010

The 9th Circuit federal court of appeals ruled that two Oregon laws intended to keep hardcore pornography away from minors could violate the First Amendment and outlaw books like Judy Blume’s Forever and Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale. -db Publishers Weekly September 21, 2010 By Andrew Albanese The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this week found two Oregon statutes ostensibly aimed at preventing the sexual abuse of children to be unconstitutional

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Justice Department absolves FBI of violating First Amendment rights

donal brown September 21, 2010

A Justice Department investigation concluded that since 2001, the FBI had improperly monitored some activists and political groups but did not target any individual or group for exercising their First Amendment rights. -db The Washington Post September 20, 2010 By Jerry Markon The FBI improperly investigated some left-leaning U.S. advocacy groups after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Justice Department said Monday, citing cases in which agents put activists on terrorist watch lists even though

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