Recent Updates
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New class action filed over US warrantless surveillance program
National News 09/22/2008The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday filed a class action lawsuit seeking injunctive, declaratory and equitable relief from the National Security Agency warrantless surveillance program, which gave government agencies access to over 300 ter...
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Bush to sign disabilities bill passed by US House
National News 09/19/2008A bill overwriting judicial interpretations which have narrowed protections under the Americans With Disabilities Act awaits President Bush's signature following passage by the US House of Representatives on Wednesday. The ADA Amendments Act of 2008,...
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TSA Wins Ruling over Air Marshal's Text Leak
National News 09/18/2008The Transportation Safety Agency did not violate an air marshal's due process rights when it disciplined him for leaking a text message to the media, the 9th Circuit ruled. Robert McLean received a text message in late July 2003 stating that there wo...
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Pole Dance Teacher Sues City To Combat 'Pall Of Orthodoxy'
National News 08/29/2008Adams Township unconstitutionally refused a permit to a woman who wants to open a "dance and fitness studio ... to teach women how to pole dance, power lap dance, and strip tease - all while fully clothed," Stephanie Babines claims in Federal Court. ...
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San Francisco Mayor's Wife Says She Was Swindled
National News 08/26/2008Moviemakers swindled the mayor of San Francisco's wife out of $75,000 by promising she would act in and produce a film in China, then making another movie, without hiring her for anything and without repaying her "one cent," Jennifer Siebel claims in...
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Prosecutors trying to get obese defendant to court
National News 08/22/2008Prosecutors are trying to decide how to jail and bring to court a nearly half-ton, bedridden woman accused of killing her 2-year-old nephew.A grand jury on Thursday indicted Mayra Lizbeth Rosales, 27, on one count of first-degree murder and on one co...
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Ninth Circuit upholds school policy on special education children
National News 08/20/2008The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a California public school district's policy that parents may only observe their disabled children in the classroom for twenty minutes in order to evaluate the school's proposed educatio...
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Businessman Says Joe Arpaio Ruined Him
National News 08/18/2008Joe Arpaio, the publicity-hungry sheriff of Maricopa County, staged a media event by bursting into a man's home and accusing him of running an illegal chop shop, though Arpaio was simply serving a warrant for an unpaid traffic ticket, a man cla...
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Pakistani woman alleged to be al-Qaeda appears in US court
National News 08/07/2008The first woman scheduled to stand trial in the US on charges related to suspected al-Qaeda ties has been extradited to the US and appeared before the District Court for the Southern District of New York Tuesday on terrorism charges. Aafia Siddiqui, ...
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ICE launches voluntary deportation program
National News 08/06/2008US Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched a new program Tuesday that allows certain illegal immigrants to coordinate their removal from the US with ICE without the risk of home raids, arrest or detention. The Scheduled Departure Program, a pilo...
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Third Circuit rules on confiscation of materials
National News 08/01/2008The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Thursday affirmed a decision to dismiss claims filed by fifteen current and former inmates alleging that various employees of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections violated their constitutional ri...
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United Airlines Takes on Pilots Union
National News 07/31/2008United Airlines wants to put an end to a pilot union's campaign to pressure the airline into reopening union negotiations by urging pilots to refuse voluntary flight assignments and to participate in an organized "sick-out," which forced United to ca...