Civil rights

Good Day, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Happy Eid al-Adha, Happy Kawanzaa, and a belated Happy Hanukah to the two newcomers--Messrs. Jerome Falk and Douglas Winthrop of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin. Mr. Jerome Falk (photo:courtesy) Mr. Douglas Winthrop (Photo:courtesy) We are going to examine Falk and Winthrop (as well as, later on, Howard Rice)in connection with the recent decision to exonerate Howard Miller, Thomas Girardi and Walter Lack for the grave...Read Full Story

Communities... Where Are They? Written by BC1959      October 2010 On their many pictorial Journals around the region, members of Team Black Country BNP have over the years, regularly informed not only locals, but people nation wide, about the demise of the region that spawned the Industrial Revolution, and reminded them of the dozens of important names of innovators and inventors that drove our economy. Pictured here, is former Councilor Russ Green, pictured by yours...Read Full Story

Ms. Beth Judith Jay – who in addition to serving as Ronald George's principal attorney also served as a formal and informal liaison between Ronald George and the State Bar of California – is the subject of multiple legal proceedings in California relating to her undisclosed meetings with State Bar of California judges and prosecutors. Beth Jay -- AKA as the "Winston Wolf" of the California Supreme Court – http://tinyurl.com/bethjaythefixer -- served as the principal attorney in the chambers...Read Full Story

Ms. Beth Judith Jay – who in addition to serving as Ronald George's principal attorney also served as a formal and informal liaison between Ronald George and the State Bar of California – is the subject of multiple legal proceedings in California relating to her undisclosed meetings with State Bar of California judges and prosecutors. Beth Jay -- AKA as the "Winston Wolf" of the California Supreme Court – http://tinyurl.com/bethjaythefixer -- served as the principal attorney in the chambers...Read Full Story

Police officer 'indifference' at disorder in Liverpool city centre   Martin Wingfield OCTOBER 2010: at http://www.nickgriffinmep.eu/news NICK Griffin has written to the Chief Constable of Merseyside Police Jon Murphy, to complain about a lack of effective policing in Liverpool city centre where a British National Party 'Troops Home' petition stall was surrounded by a hostile mob and members of the public intimidated.  The MEP wrote: "I have been contacted by a number of my constituents...Read Full Story

Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Dr. Martin Luther King Jr stated, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." No truer words were ever spoken. At one time, women could not vote. In fact, one of the reasons they were denied the right to vote was tradition. People stated, "Well the nature of democracy and the vote has always been men." At one time, African Americans were denied the right to vote. A common defense was, "Well it is traditional that they should not...Read Full Story

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CitizenWire) — A statement today from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, reads: “The United States is deeply concerned that Iran continues to deny its citizens their civil rights and intimidate and detain those Iranians who seek to hold their government accountable and stand up for the rights of their fellow citizens.” We remain troubled by the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who garnered international attention for her verdict of death by stoning. While the...Read Full Story

* Materials for this article were obtained from Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia of GLBTQ, Michael Nava for Judge, La Bloga, and a blog titled "Ninglun Floating Life". "Michael Angel Nava, born September 16, 1954 in Stockton, California, is an attorney and writer. He is a third-generation Californian of Mexican descent. He was born and raised in Sacramento." http://tinyurl.com/michaelnava "Michael Nava is the second of six children in what he calls a “tragically unhappy” Chicano family. He was the...Read Full Story

This picture is of one of the couples that challenged the California ban on same sex marriage. They are Kris Perry and Sandy Stier. The other couple by the way is Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo. They were helped by an unlikely hero. See, Ted Olsen is a long time republican.  He was a lawyer on the side of George Bush during the infamous Bush.v. Gore Supreme Court decision which awarded the election to  Bush. While Olsen is a conservative, he sees the common sense principle that all Americans...Read Full Story

There's an excellent chance that a dissident from anti-dictatorship days in Brazil will become the country's next president. Dilma Rousseff, hand-picked by outgoing president Lula received more votes than any of her opponents in Sunday's elections, but did not get more than the 50 per cent needed to avoid a run-off at the end of the month.Through an interesting twist of circumstance, the election coincides with the 40th anniversary of what is called here the October Crisis, a period in which...Read Full Story