This came to me from one of my regular readers. Prominantly featured at Oakland Focus:
Some public records of new state Attorney General Jerry Brown’s eight years as Oakland mayor are missing and others were apparently improperly destroyed, raising questions about whether the state’s top law-enforcement official has violated California’s public records law.
According to the U.S. Courts blog, Pacer will start listing Sealed cases.
An important case recently highlighted the use of linking to public records (I should probably say, records available to the public) and linking to publicly available websites and the possible albeit unlikely trademark infringements.
In Jones Day v. BlockShopper LLC, (N.D. Ill. Case No. 08CV04572), Jones Day filed a complaint against BlockShopper for its linking to Jones Day attorney profiles, claiming it violates their service mark.
With a trial date looming around the corner, Barry Bonds’ defense team has filed additional motions in an attempt to exclude possible evidence proffered by the United States Department of Justice. I’ve previously blogged about how the Media has no clue about the Barry Bonds Indictment. Just recently the Feds have raided the home of Greg Anderson’s mother-in-law in what appears to be an attempt to pressure Anderson into testifying against Bonds.
Change being the slogan of his campaign, it appears that President Obama has held true to one of his campaign promises. Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Obama issued a Memorandum to Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies regarding the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
FBI, Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and University of California Police Raid business, break into locked rooms, seize all computers, make no arrests and later return the computers.
