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Posted in Glenn Marcus, bdsm, crime, law on May 27th, 2007
Alan analyses the upholding of the decision in the Glenn Marcus S/M trial:
Throughout the decision, Judge Ross exhibits a clear and articulate attempt to understand the differences between consensual BDSM and non-consensual criminal activity. She has numerous opportunities where she can take cheap shots at the S/m community by castigating them as freaks. But she [...]
Posted in crime, law, legal, pedophiles on May 26th, 2007
Howard J. Bashman
A man is arrested in Las Vegas on federal criminal charges of traveling across state lines with intent to engage in a sexual act with a minor and using an interstate communication facility to attempt to persuade a minor to engage in sexual acts. The evidence against the man consists of the transcripts [...]
Posted in ethics, hysterectomy, law, sterilization on May 9th, 2007
Under pressure from a disabilities rights group, Seattle Children’s hospital administrators admitted Tuesday that they violated the law by failing to consult a judge before removing the uterus of a severely disabled 6-year-old girl known as “Ashley.” But they said they stand by the procedure as appropriate for some children with special needs.
“We believe [...]
BY JAMES T. MADORE james.madore@newsday.com
April 26, 2007
ALBANY - Responding to concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn its decades-old Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, [...]
Posted in censorship, law, libraries, obscenity on Apr 23rd, 2007
A Bentonville, AK resident is suing for trauma allegedly caused when his two sons stumbled across a sex guide book shelved with the military books at the library:
A Bentonville man asked the city to pay his two sons $20,000 and to fire the library director for including what he called “pornography” in the Bentonville Public [...]
A Manhattan jury found four women guilty of gang assault for attacking a man outside the IFC Center last summer. The man, Dwayne Buckle of Queens, said that the group of lesbians attacked him because he was straight, while the women contended Buckle had used slurs and threw a cigarette at them - and [...]
By MARTIN FACKLER and CHOE SANG-HUN
TOKYO, April 17 — A group of Japanese researchers on Tuesday publicly challenged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s denials that Japan’s military coerced women into sexual slavery during World War II, citing reports compiled by Allied investigators immediately after the war.
The reports, based partly on interrogations of Japanese prisoners, were originally [...]
Law blogger Denise Howell writes:
Late last month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals came out with an important decision, Perfect 10 v. CCBill (PDF), that required it to interpret and apply both the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — two of the most important U.S. provisions governing conduct [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — High-priced call girls always seem to have their little black books. Deborah Jeane Palfrey, accused of running an illegal escort service in the nation’s capital, has 46 pounds of phone records.
And her offer — or threat — to turn them over to the media has some in Washington playing a guessing game [...]
John Wirenius (a former public defender), comments on the press conference held yesterday by North Carolina’s Attorney General Roy Cooper regarding of the dropping of charges in the Duke lacrosse team rape case:
…Two things stand out for me in Cooper’s press conference:
First, Cooper was willing to criticize, in genuinely scathing terms, a sitting District [...]
By DUFF WILSON
RALEIGH, N.C. April 11 — All remaining charges were dropped today against three former Duke University lacrosse players who had been accused of rape more than a year ago, North Carolina’s attorney general announced, concluding a three-month investigation of a racially charged case that polarized and outraged many in the state and nation.
An [...]
Posted in Kathy Sierra, harassment, law, stalking on Mar 26th, 2007
Noted technology expert, author and blogger Kathy Sierra cancelled her presentation at ETech, because of a series of escalating online harassment, death threats and sexual attacks:
As I type this, I am supposed to be in San Diego, delivering a workshop at the ETech conference. But I’m not. I’m at home, with the doors locked, terrified. [...]
Posted in law, legal, pornography on Mar 22nd, 2007
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday dealt another blow to government efforts to control Internet pornography, striking down a 1998 U.S. law that makes it a crime for commercial Web site operators to let children access “harmful” material.
In the ruling, the judge said parents can protect their children through software filters and [...]
Posted in Glenn Marcus, bdsm, bondage, crime, law, nyc on Mar 20th, 2007
Tristan writes about the Glenn Marcus BDSM trial (and also mentions Alan):
I don’t know enough about Marcus and Jodi to know if there were some serious personality flaws lurking beneath their chosen roles. What is clear is that the relationship began as consensual but, for Jodi, at some point this changed. It’s possible [...]
Posted in American Idol, harassment, law, legal on Mar 14th, 2007
Former “American Idol” finalist Mario Vasquez is facing accusations that he tried to masturbate in front of a male employee in a bathroom on the set of the hit show in February 2005. Shortly thereafter, Vasquez mysteriously dropped out of “Idol,” citing personal reasons.
According to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court [...]
Vivia ChenThe American Lawyer
In his famous dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down Texas’s same-sex sodomy law, Antonin Scalia railed against the legal profession for embracing the “anti-antihomosexual culture.” Well, Scalia got that right.
Not only are the nation’s elite law firms not anti-gay, they are putting out the [...]
Posted in law, legal, pornography on Mar 1st, 2007
We’ve been covering the unfair conviction of substitute teacher Julie Amero, who faces imprisonment for the crime of being present in a classroom equipped with an adware-infected computer. Here’s an interesting development in the ongoing story:
PC World’s Steve Bass made a bit of a miscalculation and outed the partial identity of Fred F., [...]
Posted in crime, law, legal, privacy, security on Feb 22nd, 2007
Steve Bass at PC World has a good blog entry about the ridiculous conviction of Julie Amero, a substitute teacher who was arrested when a OC computer riddled with pop-up adware began displaying pornographic photos in front of junior high school students.
I’ve been privy to private conversations with a dozen security experts (you’d immediately [...]
Posted in Links for, engadget, glbt, labor, law, lesbian, polyamory, ring toss, roundup on Feb 20th, 2007
Barbara Gittings, Gay Pioneer, Dies at 75; Mother of the GLBT Civil Rights Movement (Equality Forum)
A love triangle? Try a hexagon (St. Petersburg Times)
Man Sues IBM Over Adult Chat Room Firing (AOL)
Valentine’s Day love letters to our gadgets (Engadget)
Brutal slave master? (Amorous Propensities)
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Posted in Dateline, ethics, law, legal, media, pedophiles on Feb 11th, 2007
By Douglas McCollam
It was just before 3 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon last November when a contingent of police gathered outside the home of Louis Conradt Jr., a longtime county prosecutor living in the small community of Terrell, Texas, just east of Dallas. Though the fifty-six-year-old Conradt was a colleague of some of the officers, [...]
Posted in discrimination, employment, labor, law, legal, wal-mart, walmart, women on Feb 8th, 2007
By Jim Christie
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The biggest sexual discrimination case in U.S. history advanced against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday when a top court ruled that more than a million women could join a suit charging bias in pay and promotions.
The plaintiffs estimate they could win billions of dollars in lost pay and damages [...]
Posted in discrimination, gay, housing, law, legal, lesbian, queer on Jan 31st, 2007
A case in California’s Ninth Circuit Court in Pasadena is asking the court to decide if stating specific preferences in roommate ads is discriminatory and in violation of federal Fair Housing statutes.
The suit was filed against Roommates.com by the Fair Housing Councils of San Fernando Valley and San Diego.
According to the Ninth Circuit lawsuit, [...]
Posted in EC, contraception, crime, law, politics on Jan 30th, 2007
By PHIL DAVIS, Associated Press Writer Tue Jan 30, 3:43 PM ET
TAMPA, Fla. - A woman who told police she had been raped was jailed for two days after officers found an old warrant accusing her of failing to pay restitution for a 2003 theft arrest.
While she was behind bars, according to the college student’s [...]
