Creating a Legal Storm
US Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, made his first major television appearance this week on 60 Minutes.
Previously he has severely restricted media access, especially in his court, citing his,
First Amendment right not to speak on the radio or television when I do not wish to do so.
In 2004, he even had […]
Don’t believe the hype
Twenty years ago the classic Hip Hop group, Public Enemy, said in their hit song,
Some media is the whack
You believe it’s true, it blows me through the roof
Suckers, liars get me a shovel
Some writers I know are damn devils
For them I say don’t believe the hype
Yo Chuck, they must be on a […]
When “free speechers” publish letters by lawyers or put legal proceedings online, they themselves are attacking free speech by attempting to intimidate legal proceedings.
Fry That What?
The case of Mumia Abu Jamal, on death row in Pennsylvania for killing a white police officer in 1981, is raising some interesting issues surrounding jury selection.
The court found that the prosecution used two-thirds of its vetoes to deliberately remove persons of colour in a county that consisted primarily of minorities. The […]
The largest copyright infringement payment in Korea was recently passed down.
A Korean music company, Fantom Entertainment Group, has been ordered by Judge Gu Hoe-geun the Seoul Central District Court to pay 300 Million Korean Won for copyright infringement of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII.
The material in question is a video of Korean singer […]
Chris Blattman, an Assistant Professor of Political Science & Economics at Yale University, and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development, has an interesting post on some of his recent work in West Africa:
You know experimental program evaluation has become a craze when even the Imams want it.
Today we sat down with an […]
That’s what a cemetary in Copenhagen is proposing.
They’ve set aside a specific area of the cemetary for gay people, based on requests of a gay advocacy group called Regnbuen (Rainbow).
Matt Guerrin disagrees.
Read the rest here.
Rabbi Elior Chen fled Israel to hide in Canada.
Not because he was being persecuted in his country of origin, as so many others do, nor was he claiming to flee a war-torn area.
Chen came to Canada to avoid criminal prosecution.
Israel issued an arrest warrant for him in connection to charges of beating children as young […]
We previously commented on Canadian use of Depleted Uranium (DU) and legal issues related to it.
But DU is making the news again, this time in California.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has received a permit to detonate test weapons that include the use of DU by the Valley Air Pollution Control District (SJVAPCD).
Local citizens have […]
Stephen Lewis at Dalhousie University
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz16oP4cb9E
The talk was given at Dalhousie University last year where he said,
When one part of the human family is under siege, the privileged part of the family responds…
There’s a possibility of changing the way this world works. Or if you can’t change the world, at least altering the human condition for […]
We’ve previously mused on the status of animals before the law.
But the subject beared (sic) it’s ugly head in Macedonia this month.
A court found a wild bear guilty for damages of US$3,500 for damaging beehives. The bear was convicted in absence, and now has a criminal record.
It gets worse.
The bear is still at […]
Between Jan. 2004-Sept. 2005, the U.S. government killed 23,366 American citizens, 1,100 people a month, or more than 35 a day.
On paper that is.
Social Security erroneously recorded the people as deceased, much to their protest.
Alex Johnson and Nancy Amons of MSBC state,
Even if you do finally convince the government that you are not dead, your […]
A Dirty Job
A 2007 episode of 60 Minutes reported a story of how American ships are decommissioned and dismantled by going to Bangladesh and shoring up, permanently.
Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries on Earth.
The problem is that tearing these ships apart wreaks environmental havoc. The toxins and wastes infest the waterways and shorelines, […]
It’s possible, or at least NORTHCOM says so in a news release this month.
…Americans can be assured the U.S. military is ready and capable of responding to attacks within the United States.
But critics are questioning the legality of this,
The establishment of USNORTHCOM has helped blur the lines between police and the military. It is […]
Colin Powell recently denied the harmful effects of Depleted Uranium (DU), which has been used in every major American conflict in recent years.
InformationLiberation reports,
Members of WeAreChange Ohio confronted former Secretary of State Colin Powell about the use of depleted uranium in four separate wars– including Gulf Wars I […]
