Division Four of the Second District Court of Appeal issued a significant opinion affecting anti-SLAPP motions last Friday. The Metropolitan News Enterprise reports: A trial court, in ruling on an […]
Fox Business News reports: New torture claims have been leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib “ghost” detainee who was wrongly imprisoned and later released without […]
The Sacramento Bee reports: A black firefighter’s dog food harassment lawsuit could cost the city more than $7 million, legal experts warned the City Council. Tennie Pierce filed the racial […]
The First Appellate District upheld the right of the 49’ers football team to implement the NFL’s policy of patdown searches of ticketholders. From the decision: Appellants Daniel and Kathleen Sheehan […]
CNN reports: A federal appeals court Friday ordered the dismissal of an ACLU lawsuit challenging President Bush’s domestic surveillance program. President Bush secretly instituted the National Security Agency’s domestic spying […]
From The Wired Blog Network: Life in an FBI muzzle is no fun. Two Connecticut librarians on Sunday described what it was like to be slapped with an FBI national […]
Legal Brief Today reports: The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California (ACLU/SC) has brought a federal class action lawsuit against the US on behalf of two immigrants who said […]