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Free speech: California court rules mall’s restrictions on conversations with strangers unconstitutional

donal brown August 16, 2010

A state appeals court ruled that a Roseville, California shopping mall could not prevent a Christian pastor from talking about religion with three young women. -db Metropolitan News-Enterprise August 13, 2010 By Steven M. Ellis The Third District Court of Appeal has revived a Christian youth pastor’s suit against a Placer County shopping mall that had him arrested when he declined to stop talking about his faith with three young women. The court on Wednesday held

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Open government: Pasadena creates secret review boards to advise police chief

donal brown August 16, 2010

Legal experts say that California’s open meetings law does not allow cities to create secret advisory committees not open to the public. -db Pasadena Star-News August 14, 2010 By Brenda Gazzar PASADENA – Open government advocates said city officials should release the names of members of two secret review boards that advise the police chief. At least one expert also argued that the panels should convene in conformity with state open meeting laws. Police Chief

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Los Angeles County investigates improper release of information on child death and neglect cases

donal brown August 16, 2010

Los Angeles County have asked departments to investigate inappropriate disclosure of child welfare information, but in making the request in a closed meeting, according to legal experts, have violated the California’s open meeting law, the Brown Act. -db Los Angeles Times August 15, 2010 By Lisa Girion Los Angeles County officials are investigating information released regarding a string of child death and neglect cases involving the Department of Children and Family Services. The information appeared

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Judgment Vindicates Calif. Student Punished for Pro-Life T-Shirt

FAC August 13, 2010

Tiffany Amador won a free speech case in Federal Court after officials barred her from wearing her American Life League pro-life T-shirt, featuring the word “ABORTION,” at McSwain Union Elementary School in Merced, California. Christian Newswire August 13, 2010 By Katie Walker kwalker@all.org WASHINGTON — American Life League celebrated a free speech victory after a federal court entered a judgment on Thursday that a California elementary school and three school officials violated the First, Fourth and

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Mass. curriculum can exclude questioners of Armenian genocide

FAC August 13, 2010

A federal appeals court has ruled that Massachusetts public school guidelines for teaching history can exclude viewpoints that dispute the mass slaying of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in the early part of the 20th century. August 13, 2010 By The Associated Press BOSTON —The Aug. 11 decision by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the state did not violate free-speech rights in 1999 by excluding sources that questioned the Armenian genocide. Some

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