2008-12-01
Florida Today
ACLU backs free-speech complaint
The Brevard County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is supporting a Rockledge environmental group's allegation that its free-speech rights were violated when the group tried to post signs showing its opposition to a well...
2008-12-01
Austin American Statesman
Lake Travis district sued in challenge to computerized sex offender checks
EDUCATION By Molly Bloom A couple has filed a lawsuit against the Lake Travis school district in one of the first legal challenges over background check systems used to vet visitors in a growing number of Central Texas...
2008-12-01
Detroit News Online
Remove state bans on gay adoption
Martin Gill and his partner, licensed foster parents in Florida, were planning to move, so they told a state child-placement official it wasn't a good time to take in two needy...
2008-11-30
Press Register
Differences in learning abilities of girls and boys are myths
Special to the Press-Register Do boys and girls learn so differently that they need to be taught in separate classrooms? That's the question behind a national debate, and a local one,...
2008-11-30
Longview Daily News
Illegal-worker law may be difficult to implement
Jeff Rogers spent 21 years in the Air Force, working in military intelligence. Yet the Arkansas native doubts he could pass muster under Columbia Countys new voter-approved law requiring employers to check new hires immigration...
2008-11-29
Post-Gazette
Can swabbing for DNA go too far?
In the settlement around Cove Run Creek, nobody said no when police came asking for their DNA. A dead baby, wrapped in a flannel shirt and plastic bag, then stuffed into a knapsack, had been abandoned in the woods in North Union, Fayette County, sometime in...
2008-11-29
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
For U.S., escape from Guantanamo won't be easy
The cell resembled your average prison quarters in America, as far as I could tell. Concrete walls, a cot, standard-issue toiletries. Except through a narrow slit of a window facing south you can see the warm Caribbean...
2008-11-28
Centre Daily Times
Clearance lost, Muslim scientist returns to Egypt
- The Associated Press PITTSBURGH A Muslim scientist who claimed his rights were violated when the Department of Energy revoked his security clearance left the country after 28 years and returned to his native Egypt after losing his federal...
2008-11-28
Signon San Diego
Nevada court strikes down juvenile-guilt law
CARSON CITY, Nev. The Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a law that made juveniles admit guilt to charged crimes to avoid trial as an adult and let prosecutors use the admissions if juveniles wound up in adult court...
2008-11-26
News 14
UNC exploring hate speech policies
CHAPEL HILL -- The president of the UNC System is appointing a commission to study the issue of hate speech versus freedom of speech on all 16 college campuses in North...