From the Diocese of Ridgeport, CT, comes this report that the state of Connecticut is seeking to regulate the internal operations and structure of the Catholic Church: Catholics across the State of Connecticut mobilize to fight the irrational, unlawful, and bigoted Proposed Bill #1098/2009 New: Info...

Normally, I could feel condident that such a power grab would be reveresed in the Supreme Court, but in today's political climate, I am not so sure. This is unbelievable. yet perhaps just the opening salvo in a true persecution of the Catholic Church. Didn't you see it coming when we elected staunch...

CNN reports: An Illinois sheriff filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the owners of craigslist, accusing the popular national classified-ad Web site of knowingly promoting prostitution. The sheriff is upset that the site maintains a bulletin board system which is very lightly policed by its crea...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has just released a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) in the matter of “Implementation of the Child Safe Viewing Act; Examination of Parental Control Technologies for Video or Audio Programming.” (MB Docket No. 09-26)  This NOI was required by S. 602, t...

As many of us have long suspected, those who spout off about morality, "family values," the virtue of eschewing masturbation, etc., are not the pure spiritual beings they would have us believe them to be (link): A new nationwide study (pdf) of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major o...

In December, the Fourth Circuit upheld the conviction and 20-year sentence of a man who downloaded pictures, drawings, and text emails depicting minors engaged in sexual acts. Receiving obscene depictions of “a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct� is prohibited by 18 U.S.C. § 1466A(a). ...

Part of an exchange from the Conlawprofs listserv: I've read the interesting, more or less, discussion and think that the obvious solution is for the secular-school authorities to call an assembly of students and for a teacher or the principal to state that in the olden days we believed in magic and...

And so begins another fight over data retention. As Declan summarizes: Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records...

Los Angeles City College is being sued for religious discrimination after a public speaking professor refused to allow a student to complete his speech in support of traditional marriage. The lawsuit also seeks to overturn university rules on offensive speech by students. A classroom dispute at Los ...

A year and a day after the suit was removed to federal court, Judge Ellison of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas has dismissed the main chunk of Roger Clemens' defamation action against former trainer Brian McNamee. The suit contained three claims, arising from stat...