Buried under a small headline in today’s Seattle Times is a story about sensational military and police misconduct. “'[I]t has become a routine practice for the Navy to conduct surveillance of all the civilian computers in an entire state to see whether any child pornography can be found on them[...]
Posts Tagged ‘legal abuse’
September 18th, 2014 - 6:42 pm § in America
Yes, the U.S. Navy has searched your computer looking for kiddie porn
September 17th, 2014 - 5:08 pm § in Misc.
It’s time to honor Steve Titus with a memorial statue
Today, the city of Lubbock, Texas, dedicated a 13-foot tall bronze statue of a man who died in prison rather than confess to a crime he didn’t commit as a reminder to the community that justice is fallible. Tim Cole, who went to prison for a 1985 rape and died in 1997 at age 39 from […[...]
September 14th, 2014 - 2:47 pm § in Misc.
Even celebrities get profiled and harassed by L.A.’s racist cops
Actress Danielle Watts, who is black, kissed her boyfriend — celebrity chef Brian Lucas aka Cheffy Be*Live — in public. It got them arrested by Los Angeles cops who assumed any black woman who kisses a white man must be a prostitute. http://handbill.us/wp-admin/post-new.php This will b[...]
September 9th, 2014 - 8:27 am § in Misc.
America’s corrupt small towns and their predatory shakedown rackets
Are you leery of small town cops? For many people, the phrase provokes nervous jitters about speed traps, police harassment, etc. When Michael Brown was gunned down by a Ferguson cop last month, he was in all likelihood walking away from a jaywalking ticket. He probably got mouthy, and may have scuf[...]
September 1st, 2014 - 10:08 pm § in Misc.
When cops shake down citizens
Forfeiture laws are meant to deprive criminals of the instruments and proceeds of crime. This may look great on paper, but without adequate safeguards, these laws create conflicts of interest that encourage misuse of the law and can lead to corruption and oppression. The latest example of this com[...]
August 11th, 2014 - 9:58 am § in Misc.
When Lawyers Sell Out Their Clients
A federal judge made headlines last week by rejecting a $324.5 million settlement negotiated by attorneys for tech giants Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe, and 64,000 present and former employees who claimed they were underpaid by the firms as a result of a labor-market-rigging conspiracy. Lucasfil[...]
February 4th, 2014 - 3:24 am § in Misc.
Legal Thuggery at The University: Ninth Circuit Rues Against WSU!
Ninth Circuit Reaffirms Free-Speech Rights for Professors Court Implicitly Rejects WSU’s Argument that “Professional Speech” Does Not Deserve Protection The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals this week denied a second appeal from four Washington State University administrators [...]
BREAKING NEWS: UW violates basic principles of law.
A good deal of the reason for The AVE has been my concern about administrative abuse of faculty rights. As one example, The AVE has provided extensive coverage of the Aprikyan affair. Now we will likely never find out whether Andrew Aprikyan ever did anything wrong. Instead a team of lawyers, h[...]
When Lawyers Act As Bullies
From A Response to an Essay On Lawyers Acting As Bullies: Let’s look at the real targets of bully lawyers — not other lawyers or even staff — it’s those they oppose. The law provides a venue for someone with bullying tendencies, which we all have, to attack and harm in ways[...]