From gagging orders to inciting rioting, and libel suits and defamation, Twitter can be a minefield for legal implications, according to new research. Amid the super-injunction controversy earlier this year, 68 percent Twitter users in the UK have “little or no awareness of their legal responsi... Read more...
Several months ago I reported on the firing of a trio of high-ranking prison officials in connection with a series of sexual assaults in a Southwestern Pennsylvania prison. Few news agencies took up the story especially national ones. This was astounding given the nature of the charges: p... Read more...
The University of Pennsylvania's prestigious Palestra -- "The Cathedral of College Basketball" -- will open its doors to the National Basketball Association, among others, when Team Philly vs. Team Melo (a Baltimore-based group) square off on Sunday, Sept. 25. Tipoff for the game is slated for 6 p... Read more...
Troy Anthony Davis (born October 9, 1968) was convicted of the August 19, 1989, murder of Savannah, Georgia, USA police officer Mark MacPhail. MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King when he intervened in an argument between several men in a nearby parking lot. He was shot in the h... Read more...
After four years of nearly straight-As, Honors and Advanced Placement classes, 18-year-old Kymberly Wimberly achieved the highest GPA at McGehee Secondary School southeast of Little Rock, Ark., according to a court complaint. However, instead of awarding the student for her hard work and dedication... Read more...
Mumia Abu Jamal - A Message From Martina Correia, Troy Davis' Sister Troy Davis has faced execution three times for a crime he may not have committed. In an unprecedented evidentiary hearing held in a federal district court in Savannah, Georgia in June, 2010, he was able to present evidence... Read more...
"An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which they did not live. Kelley Williams-Bolar was sentenced by Judge Patricia Cosgrove on Tuesday and will begin serving her sentence immediately. The jury ... Read more...
The British government announced plans to modernize and reform U.K. copyright law following up on recommendations contained in the Hargreaves report commissioned by British Prime Minister David Cameron and a technical review by telecoms regulator Ofcom. The most significant decision is the scrapp... Read more...
Mubarak In the Dock [col. writ. 8/3/11] '11 Mumia Abu-Jamal The spectacle was so without precedent that it seemed surreal. An Egyptian ex-President, in power for almost 3 decades, is wheeled into court atop a gurney in a cage, and facing charges from the violent chaos that rocked Tahrir Sq... Read more...