Steve Gorman reports: A federal appeals court on Monday ordered the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay troops to remain in place while the Obama administration challenges a lower-court opinion declaring the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law unconstitutional. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals effectively ruled that the ban should remain in effect for…
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Uganda’s Rolling Stone paper told to stop outing gays
Horrifying story out of Uganda via BBC: A judge in Uganda has ordered the local Rolling Stone newspaper to stop publishing the names and photographs of people it says are homosexual. The judge granted a request by gay rights group Sexual Minorities Uganda (Smug). The group says some homosexual people were attacked after a previous…
Can you put your identity up for sale?
A man desperate to raise money for an operation his father needs could be exposing himself to prosecution for putting his identity up for sale. Rhianne Pope reports that Preston Likely, a print worker from Littlemore, may find that he’s gone from the financial frying pan into the fire: He said: “I have decided…
Message Board Operator Fights Discovery Order Requiring Disclosure of Identities and Private Messages — Concerned Citizens for Crystal City v. City of Crystal City
Venkat Balasubramani discusses a case in which the identities of everyone who posted in a forum were requested as part of discovery: Concerned Citizens for Crystal City, et al. v. City of Crystal City, et al., No. ED 94135 (Mo. Ct. App.; Oct. 26, 2010) As background, the case concerns a group and forum created…