As most of you know, on Thursday morning the US Supreme Court blasted aside a century old ban on...
Free Speech
Do Students Have the Right to Be Mean Online?
In the aftermath of the 2006 cyber-bullying case that led to 13-year-old Megan Meier’s...
Elmore Leonard, an Immigration Raid & Homeless Violinists
The PEN USA Annual Literary Awards Dinner was Wednesday night. If one is a writer (or an editor or...
The Lawyer, the Cross & the Supremes
The Los Angeles Daily Journal-–the publication that lawyers and judges read—has an...
Social Justice Shorts: Free Speech, Prisons & Shielding Reporters
WILL THE SENATE FINALLY PASS A FEDERAL SHIELD LAW? This week the Senate Judiciary committee will...
Mob Rule & Health Care Reform
I’ll be blogging more later today about local news. But until then, here are a few snips...