Legal and Legislative News

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Legislator: Law allows banishment of Bible

World Net Daily (CO)

by Bob Unruh

July 02, 2008

A lawmaker in Colorado who challenged the authors of SB200, a new law that bans discrimination based on the "perception" of gender, contends it was written to give a wide open door to anyone who wants to banish Christian beliefs or the Bible.

"Section 8 of Senate Bill 200 is a wide open door for any judge to censor anything that condemns homosexuality, including Scripture," Lundberg said at the news conference. "I do believe that the Bible is banned, under the plain language of this new statute," said Steve Crampton, general counsel of Liberty Counsel.

Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom

Wired

by Ryan Singel

July 02, 2008

Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips

Viacom wants the data to prove that infringing material is more popular than user-created videos, which could be used to increase Google's liability if it is found guilty of contributory infringement.

California and Homeschool Liberty:A Companion Post

The Full-Quiver Homeschool House

July 01, 2008

On Monday, June 23, the Court of Appeal in Los Angeles held oral arguments for the rehearing in the In re Rachel L homeschooling/abuse case in California.

The arguments were long (two and a half hours in a hot courtroom) and thorough. The judges asked lots of questions, with some consistent themes. As soon as you thought you had one judge pegged as to how he or she was thinking, he or she would ask another question that made you wonder about your prior conclusion. They were reasonably generous about letting people finish their presentations or points even if they ran over a little on time.

The Business of Child Stealing in Florida

Nolan Chart

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

June 28, 2008

American taxpayers fund a racket that wrenches the stomach. That is CPS. Some of those involved claim their are just following orders, others just pocket the bounty on children wrenched from their parent's arms.

We are going to take you behind the lies into the ugly truth that is destroying families for profit every day, in every community across America. You won't want to believe it but when you see their faces, hear their voices, you will understand why this is happening and what it means to your own life, even if you don't have children.

I Am Not My Brother's Keeper -- And Neither Are You

Public School Menace

by Joel Turtel

June 28, 2008

Maybe three percent of the adult population become addicted gamblers. Yet private gambling is illegal in most cities and states, except for government gambling schemes called lotteries.

Why do politicians we elect presume they can destroy our rights because some people are idiots who can't control themselves? What right do they have to punish you and violate your rights because of the stupidity or illegal acts of others? They have no such right. Mankind fought for over a thousand years in England, starting with Magna Carta, to create and defend fundamental legal principles that protect liberty against government tyranny.

Parents Arrested For Son's Death in SUV in Court

Las Vegas Now (NV)

by Ky Plaskon

June 27, 2008

The parents of a 4-year-old found dead in their SUV after being left there for 17 hours got a first look at the murder charges against them. Emotions have been strong concerning this story.

On June 9, Colleen Rimer called the non-emergency line of Metro. Her disabled child was dead after being left in their car for 17 hours. The Rimers' four other children are now in the custody of CPS. Both sides are expected to push for a grand jury in this case to protect the identity of some of the children who will be asked to testify.

Waits Plague Transfers of Children to Relatives' Care

The New York Times (MD)

by Erik Eckholm

June 27, 2008

HYATTSVILLE, Md. -- When child welfare officials in Washington removed five young children from their parents' home in May, relatives in this Washington suburb quickly stepped in, offering to share guardianship.

If the relatives had lived in Washington, they might have gained custody of the children within days, after a quick check on their suitability. Instead, the children were put in a foster home, where they could remain for months while their relatives wait for Washington and Maryland to make formal requests, home inspections and approvals.

Michigan is letting down its foster kids

South Bend Tribune

June 25, 2008

The breakdown last month of settlement talks in a federal class-action lawsuit against Michigan's foster care system is unacceptable.

Michigan children abused and neglected in their families are likely to be no safer in foster care, concluded John Goad, who reviewed the deaths of five foster children. Goad, former director of child protective services in Illinois, said in the February AP story that he found serious shortcomings in how DHS is structured and managed.

'Porn judge' has no 'judgment'

World Net Daily (CA)

June 23, 2008

Questions have been raised about Judge Alex Kozinski's explanation that he happened to be hearing - because of a random assignment - a pornography case that normally would have been assigned to a district judge.

Kozinski made the news more than a week ago when it was revealed that his personal website included nude women painted as cows and other sexually explicit images. His wife, Marcy Tiffany, has staged a vocal defense of her husband, calling the images "raunchy humor" but not pornography.

Napolitano signs bill allowing access to child-welfare cases

The Arizona Republic

by Amanda J. Crawford

June 22, 2008

The governor signed into law Tuesday a package of bills that will give the public and the media unprecedented access to records in child-welfare cases and state employee files.

The bills were crafted in the wake of legislative hearings on the deaths of three Tucson children involved with the state's Child Protective Services agency. The new laws make some court proceedings, CPS case records and employee disciplinary records available to the public.

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