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: The GavelThursday Media Summary
By Nancy Palencia
CITIZENS UNITED
NY Times: Justice Defends Ruling on Finance
Adam Liptak – 2/3/2010
Huffington Post: Understanding the Citizens United Ruling
Ira Glasser – 2/3/2010
Wall Street Journal/Capital Journal: The Bigger Meaning: High Court Lets Companies Lobby Employees, Suppliers
Peter A. Brown – 2/3/2010
Human Events: Conservative Spotlight: Citizens United
John Gizzi – 02/04/2010
Huffington Post: Corporate Speech Is Not “Free”
Adam Winkler – 2/4/2010
Center For American Progress: How to Address Corporate Political Spending
Alex DeMots – 2/3/2010
Firedoglake: Today's Judiciary Committee Hearing On Citizens United
Bill Egnor – 2/3/2010
The Hill: Court ruling maybe less consequential than it seems
Lanny Davis – 2/03/2010
OBAMA SOTU/SCOTUS
Salem Statesman Journal: Voters’ choices affect Supreme Court cases
Paul Diller – 2/3/2010
GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEES/COURTS
Huffington Post: The Big Apple’s 9/11 Blues
Dan Collins – 2/3/2010
LA Times/AP: Swiss taking 2 Uighurs from Gitmo, could render moot Supreme Court case about release into US
Mark Sherman – 2/3/2010
The Atlantic” A Joke, Right? Congress Moves To End Startlingly Successful Federal Program
Andrew Cohen – 2/3/2010
NATIONAL SECURITY/COURTS
CBS News/AP: Holder Defends Handling of Abdulmutallab
2/3/2010
FindLaw: The Trial of Aafia Siddiqui
JOANNE MARINER – 2/3/2010
Jurist/Paper Chase: Federal appeals court rules ‘millennium bomber’ 22-year sentence too lenient
Jay Carmella – 2/3/2010
Georgetown Security Law Briefs: Event: Free speech, human rights, and counter-terrorism laws
2/3/2010
MERIT SELECTION
Albany Times Union: The perils of electing judges
ABBE R. GLUCK AND VICTOR A. KOVNER – 2/4/2010
Akron Beacon Journal: Price of justice
Editorial – 2/3/2010
McLeod Country Chronicle: Retention elections of judges may be on fall ballot this year
Rich Glennie – 2/3/2010
Huntington Herald-Dispatch: Panel established to pick new federal magistrate judge
2/3/2010
PROP 8 CHALLENGE
Washington Post/AP: Calif. marriage trial draws friends with briefs
2/3/2010
DON’T ASK DON’T TELL REPEAL
Legal History Blog: Is Wartime a time to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
Mary L. Dudziak – 2/2/2010
Jurist/Paper Chase: US defense secretary announces panel to prepare for repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Jay Carmella – 2/3/2010
FEDERAL HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION/COURTS
One News Now: Holder sued over ‘Hate Crimes Act’
Bill Bumpas – 2/3/2010
PATRIOT ACT REFORM
Truthout: Patriot Act – Eight Years Later
Williams Fisher – 2/3/2010
IMMIGRATION/COURTS
Jurist/Paper Chase: Federal appeals court upholds injunction against Oklahoma immigration law
Brian Jackson – 2/3/2010
CNN: Judge to decide whether Obama’s aunt can stay in U.S.
2/4/2010
MILITARY JUSTICE/CIVILIAN COURTS
Jurist/Paper Chase: House committee approves Supreme Court jurisdiction over court-martial appeals
David Manes – 2/3/2010
FEDERAL NOMINATIONS
Charleston Gazette/Sustained Outrage: Obama on judicial nominees: "Let's have a fight about real stuff"
Andrew Clevenger – 2/3/2010
San Francisco Chronicle: Edward Chen: Portrait of a patriot
Editorial – 2/4/2010
SHARON KELLER
Austin American Statesman/Focal Point: No answer to Judge Keller's findings this week
Chuck Lindell – 2/3/2010
CLEAR THE BENCH COLORADO
People’s Press Collective” Clear the Bench Colorado's Matt Arnold Testifies Against Unconstitutional Tax Increases (video)
T.L. James – 2/3/2010
STATE COURT TRANSPARENCY
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Panel deadlocks on limiting online access to court records
Patrick Marley – 2/3/2010
MO STATE OF THE JUDICIARY
St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Political Fix: Mo. Chief Justice: Jailing nonviolent offenders doesn't work
Juana Summers – 2/3/2010
MissouriNet: Chief Justice Price takes direct approach in State of Judiciary address
Brent Martin – 2/3/2010
Kansas City Star/Prime Buzz: Judge Price delivers State of the Judiciary address
2/3/2010
Full post as published by The Gavel on February 04, 2010 (boomark / email).
Marketing Spam
Member Source Media pays $200,000 civil penalty for deceptive online advertising.
Nielsen Media Challenged
TV ratings company to pay undisclosed settlement in antitrust lawsuit.
Media/Telecom
consumer rights involving print, radio, television, video, DVD, video games, and mobile telephones.
Wireless Entertainment
Kangaroo Media pays Immersion Entertainment $2 million patent infringement settlement.

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