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05
Jul
2009
MySpace not liable for attacks from sexual predators  

1 day ago by Randy Wilson

“MySpace is immune from liability in cases of sexual assaults stemming from people meeting through the site, a California appeals court ruled. Four girls, aged 13 to 15, sued the social networking Web site after they were assaulted by men they met online.” Article: Posted in Company News, Lawsuits T ...

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02
Jul
2009
Indian Court Decriminalizes Homosexuality  

4 days ago by Neha Puntambekar

Gay Pride Parade in Bangalore, Photo: Nick Johnson In a historic judgment following an eight year long legal battle, the Delhi High Court today read down the controversial Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that criminalized homosexuality. The court held that if Section 377 was not amended i ...

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Homophobia unites moral police from all religio-political lobies  

4 days ago by c-info

[The 2 July 2009 judgement by the Delhi high court is a great victory for human rights; but all secular forces must be beware that all the major religious and conservative forces will unite to block and oppose the full legalisation of homosexuality in India. So lets us firmly fight them back on a se ...

Communalism Watch - communalism.blogspot.com · 46 references

30
Jun
2009
The Sotomayor Pattern  

6 days ago by Zonies

Yesterday’s Supreme Court opinion in Ricci, the New Haven firefighters case, provides a window to what will inevitably be a significant line of questioning in Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings. After all, Judge Sotomayor not only reached the wrong decision in this case, allowing overt racial d ...

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Federal appeals court upholds Virginia’s ban on partial-birth abortions  

6 days ago by Doug Lawrence

Judge Paul V. Niemeyer authored the majority opinion in Wednesday’s decision, which won the concurrence of Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III. “A partially born child is among the weakest, most helpless beings in our midst and on that account exerts a special claim on our protection,” Judge Wilkinson wro ...

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28
Jun
2009
Giants Playbook 6/28/09  

8 days ago by Chris

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has announced that he will begin his review on former Giants receiver Plaxico Burress to see if he violated the personal conduct policy. The NFL’s vice president of labor and law policy, Adolpho Birch, notified Burress that the review has begun. Goodell seems to have p ...

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24
Jun
2009
Court Rules on Funds at Bankrupt Qualified Intermediary  

12 days ago by Eric Odum

This is an interesting article from Asset Preservation, one of the largest Qualified Intermediaries (QI) in the Section 1031 Exchange market, about a court ruling on bankrupt QI, LandAmerica. In summary, the bankruptcy court recently ruled that the funds designated for exchange by one of LandAmerica ...

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23
Jun
2009
Privacy? What Privacy?  

13 days ago by nileshbabu

Wired has a long but interesting article titled Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out. Both Google and Microsoft wants a piece of Facebook – which have not generated any revenue yet. Microsoft won the bid – for USD240 million, they have 1.6% ...

Nilesh Babu - nileshbabu.com/2009 · 1 reference

18
Jun
2009
Five journalism questions I’ve been asked in the past 24 hours  

18 days ago by David Maclean

And the simple answers: Should newsaper leaders be signed? No. Is crowdsourcing the future of journalism? Yes. Could this be one of the most important court ruling for journalists ever seen? Possibly, I’d rather see the right to protect sources be protected without resorting to the Human Rights Act. ...

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16
Jun
2009
Ruling on NightJack author Richard Horton kills blogger anonymity – Times ...  

20 days ago by TomWiles

Ruling on NightJack author Richard Horton kills blogger anonymity – Times Online. Traditional media would like to see bloggers simply go away.

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