Political News - Washington DC. Law students "required" in their curriculum to sue somebody just for "practice" - Virginia student sues for real life defense against TSA and actually won, but then Virginia airport took it one step further by requiring all airport law enforcement + TSA to attend a 2 hour training on 1st and 4th Constitutional Amendments - Oregon and USDA still investigating mystery GMO wheat with lab experiments soon to divulge a trail of where it came from that could reveal the missing piece to the puzzle - Seattle Bill would allow state employees to sue citizens who request public records IF they felt the citizens "harassed" them for the public info - and here's 2 sides of a proposed new Utah law on ending compulsory education by making it available as an opportunity, but not forced/enforced with fines and jail - Recent report on superfood quinoa in Bolivia and Peru (that's a complete protein--scientifically a fruit but looks/cooks like a grain) has blossomed around the world as the new protein-sub for vegetarians and how it's causing an economic rise for poverty farmers in those Latin American areas - Detroit poverty video and one suggestion on how to restore it
"...But the cumulative effect of so many rules is to strangle life.
Yet lawyers like George Washington Law professor John Banzhaf want more rules.
Banzhaf requires his law students to sue people, just for practice.
"And we keep winning!" he bragged to me.
They do. But his legal "victories" hardly benefit the public.
ut the cumulative effect of so many rules is to strangle life.
Yet lawyers like George Washington Law professor John Banzhaf want more rules.
Banzhaf requires his law students to sue people, just for practice.
"And we keep winning!" he bragged to me.
They do. But his legal "victories" hardly benefit the public..."
Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest
"RICHMOND, Va.— In a victory for the U.S. Constitution, officials with the Richmond International Airport (RIC) have required that all RIC law enforcement officers take part in a two-hour training course on the First and Fourth Amendment rights of passengers, guests and/or vendors. The required training, with materials for the course on travelers’ First and Fourth Amendment rights supplied by attorneys for The Rutherford Institute, was part of the settlement of a lawsuit filed on behalf of college student Aaron Tobey, who was arrested for engaging in a peaceful protest of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) use of whole-body imaging scanners and enhanced pat downs at RIC..."
"...In August 2011, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson rejected the government’s motion to have Tobey’s First Amendment claims dismissed, ruling that Tobey’s civil rights would have been violated if the agents sought to silence Tobey’s expression. The Court of Appeals subsequently upheld that ruling. “[I]t is crystal clear,” the court wrote, “that the First Amendment protects peaceful nondisruptive speech in an airport, and that such speech cannot be suppressed solely because the government disagrees with it.”
Local governments seeking to water down the Public Records Act should remember this line from the law: “The people of the state do not yield sovereignty to the agencies that serve them.”
"...The proposed solution was House Bill 1128, which would have allowed local governments to sue requesters for using the Public Records Act if they deem requests as harassing. Granting municipalities such broad power waters down the Public Records Act, and is akin to attacking a fly with a sledgehammer.
"The bill was wisely killed by Speaker of the House Frank Chopp, D-Seattle. But the issue won’t die. The $25,000 study seemingly intends to gather momentum for a new version of HB 1128..."
Utah educators question pitch to end compulsory school attendance - Senator says state shouldn’t force kids to go to school; rivals say his plan would create “subclass of illiterates.”
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