Judicial Elections and the First Amendment: Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar
On January 20, the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in Lanell Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar. At issue is whether a ban on solicitation of campaign donations by judicial...
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HARTFORD The state Supreme Court will not weigh in on a dispute over whether the Connecticut Law Tribune should have been barred from publishing a story about a child protection case.
The state's highest court was asked for its opinion after Judge Stephen Frazzini on Nov. 24 granted a motion filed in New Britain Superior Court by the mother of the three children involved in the child protection case that sought to stop the Law Tribune from running the story. Frazzini later lifted the ruling in December, saying the order no longer made sense because information about the case had already been published by other media outlets. Thursday, the court dismissed an appeal of the ruling, saying the case has become moot.
Daniel J. Klau, the lawyer representing the Law Tribune, objected to the mother's motion, saying a prior restraint on the publication was a violation of the First Amendment. The information for the story, he said, was lawfully obtained by the Law Tribune. Klau appealed the ruling, asking the state's appellate court to stay the lower court's injunction. The state Supreme Court then transferred the appeal to itself.
Free-speech advocates slammed Frazzini's initial ruling as unconstitutional and said they were not surprised when he reversed it. They still wanted the issue, however, to go before the state Supreme Court so it could clarify the state and federal rules on prior restraint. Those who argue that privacy issues in child protection cases trump First Amendment rights, however, praised Frazzini's initial ruling.
Klau said Thursday that while he was disappointed with the Supreme Court's decision not to hear his appeal, he said it was "important to recognize why" the court reached its decision.
"The trial court vacated its own injunction after the Law Tribune and over 100 amici [including legal experts, individuals and organizations] filed appellate briefs that explained why the trial court's prior restraint order was blatantly unconstitutional," Klau said. The Law Tribune's appeal was supported by a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, two open-government organizations, three media organizations and more than a dozen media outlets, including the Hartford Courant.
"Moreover, the Supreme Court acknowledged in its decision that the First Amendment issue presented was one of 'significant public importance,' and it described the trial court's original decision as 'devoid of precedential value.'"
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By ZOE FERGUSON
The New York Times columnist Adam Liptak, who covers the SupremeCourt in his biweekly column Sidebar, spoke on controversies surrounding the First Amendment in a lecture Thursday.
Liptak who was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in exploratory journalism in 2009 framed his discussion on the 1905 court case Joseph Lochner v. New York, which struck down labor laws and allowed greater First Amendment freedoms to companies.
Liptak called the case an anti-canon Supreme Court decision, one that most judges do not refer to as precedent or even give credit. In its landmark ruling, Liptak said the Supreme Court decided that liberty of contract was implicit in the Constitutions promise of due process and allowed companies greater freedom over their employees. It also implied that free speech of commercial entities is equal to that of individuals, he added.
According to Liptak, commercial speech has only been recognized as a protected form of speech under the First Amendment since the 1970s.
Liptak said there are two primary preconditions for Lochnerism: the regulation being opposed must be an ordinary regulatory rule and the speech being violated must be commercial speech.
Liptak said in recent years, some believe that the Roberts Supreme Court has proven itself the most First Amendment court in American history.
He cited recent cases in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Westboro Baptist Church could protest at veterans funerals and abortion opponents may protest outside abortion clinics.
We have to tolerate quite a lot of ugly speech, he said.
According to Liptak, the American position on free speech is an example of what he calls American exceptionalism.
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Hoggard junior wins oratorical contest
WILMINGTON | American Legion Post 543 recently hosted the 9th District Constitutional Speech Oratorical Contest, and Caroline Bunting a junior at Hoggard High School was honored at St. James Community Center as winner.
Buntings topic was Utilizing Our First Amendment Rights. Her speech outlined the lives of famous Americans as they exercised what they saw as their duty to seek constitutional changes, and the civil rights changes that resulted. A central focus of her oratory was the right to vote.
The contest was open to American Legion Post contest winners from Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, and Pender counties. Bunting represented Post 10 in Wilmington.
WILMINGTON | The second annual First 2,000 Days Summit is 10 a.m.-noon, Monday, Feb. 16, at First Baptist Activity Center, 1939 Independence Blvd.
The free event organized by local faith leaders highlights the effects that toxic stress has on the developing brain especially during the first 2,000 days of life. The Cape Fear Memorial Foundation provides support for this event, which includes a light breakfast for attendees.
Pediatrician Dr. David Tayloe is the keynote speaker. Following his address, he is joined in a panel discussion by a therapist who works with young children who have experienced toxic stress, a pastor of a church that has made significant investments in early childhood, child-care providers, District Attorney Ben David and others.
There are only 2,000 days between the time a baby is born and when that child shows up for the first day of kindergarten. Experiences during these 2,000 days have a lasting impact on later learning, health and success.
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The most famous twins in social media and cryptocurrency want to launch a regulated Bitcoin exchangenamed Gemini, of course.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss want their next-generation exchange, to be based in New York, to be fully regulated and in compliance with financial laws, a stance that goes against the anonymous, anti-establishment philosophy under which Bitcoin was born six years ago.
As major investors in Bitcoin, the brothers see the exchange as a way to secure the digital currencys future amid continued price declines, hacking incidents and criminal cases. To bolster confidence, they said they have formed a relationship with a chartered bank in the state of New York.
This means that your money will never leave the country, the twins wrote in a blog post. It also means that U.S. dollars on Gemini will be eligible for FDIC insurance and held by a U.S.-regulated bank, they wrote, referring to the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which guarantees the deposits in member banks.
The team behind Gemini currently consists of 14 people including the brothers. They did not say when Gemini might receive regulatory approval from New York state authorities, who held public hearings on regulations a year ago.
Its true that Bitcoins promise is a new, frictionless money, but that all becomes academic if we dont build towards an ecosystem that is free of hacking, fraud and security breaches, the twins wrote on their Gemini blog.
The so-called Winklevii are believed to be one of the largest holders of Bitcoin in the world. Theyre also known for their disputes with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as well as for another cryptocurrency plana NASDAQ Bitcoin investment trust under which the coins would apparently be protected in vaults like gold bars.
Tim Hornyak reports on IT, telecommunications, science, and technology in Japan for the IDG News Service. More by Tim Hornyak
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The operator of a Bitcoin exchange tied to the illicit online drug bazaar Silk Road was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to running an illegal money business.
Robert Faiella, a former plumber living in Florida, told U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff today that he exchanged the digital currency under the name BTCKing for use in online drug deals to support his family after he became disabled by back troubles. He faced a maximum of five years.
At the time of the event, I saw no other way, Faiella said in his sentencing hearing in Manhattan federal court. It still doesnt mitigate that I broke the law.
Faiella was charged in April with Charlie Shrem, the ex-Bitcoin Foundation vice chairman. The case grew out of an investigation into the Silk Road site, where customers used bitcoins to buy drugs and other illegal items anonymously. Ross William Ulbricht, who says he was the founder of the site, is being tried on conspiracy and Internet drug trafficking charges.
Ulbrichts trial is in its fourth day in the same courthouse where Faiella was sentenced. Ulbricht, who denies the charges, claimed he started Silk Road as an economic experiment, then left the site a few months later when it became too stressful for him.
Ulbricht claims he was set up as a fall guy by Mark Karpeles, the former head of the bankrupt Mt. Gox Co. bitcoin exchange. Jared Der-Yeghiayan, a Department of Homeland Security special agent, testified in Ulbrichts trial that he believed in mid-2013 that Karpeles ran Silk Road. Investigators later determined Karpeles wasnt involved, he told jurors. Karpeles denied having anything to do with Silk Road.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest, whos overseeing Ulbrichts trial, today limited the questions his lawyer can ask about the governments investigation of others they suspected of being the Silk Road operator who went by the name of Dread Pirate Roberts.
Ulbricht, who was arrested in a San Francisco library in October 2013, faces as long as life in prison if convicted.
The Faiella case is U.S. v. Faiella, 14-cr-00243, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan). The Ulbricht case is U.S. v. Ulbricht, 14-cr-00068, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
To contact the reporter on this story: Bob Van Voris in federal court in Manhattan at rvanvoris@bloomberg.net
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The early results from the Rosetta mission are in, and they reveal that comets are much more complicated than anyone realized.
In a flurry of papers published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers provide the first data-driven snapshot of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko a world of towering cliffs, wide basins, powdery surfaces blacker than coal, and a growing atmosphere that will soon be strong enough to deflect the solar wind.
The picture is starting to come together, said Paul Weissman of NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an interdisciplinary scientist on the European Space Agency-led mission.
A few other spacecraft have flown past comets, but Rosetta is the first to travel alongside one as it makes its way to perihelion, the moment when it is closest to the sun. Comet 67P will reach that milestone in the middle of August.
When the suite of instruments aboard Rosetta first started taking measurements of 67P, the dumbbell-shaped comet was more than 325 million miles from the sun. At that distance, on the other side of the asteroid belt, it was too faint to see from ground-based telescopes.
We don't have a lot of previous observations of comets in that part of the solar system," Weissman said. We are exploring unknown territory.
Most of the findings reported in Science are based on data collected between April and September, when Rosetta was still sailing toward 67P, and months before a lander carried by Rosetta, known as Philae, maneuvered to a nail-biting arrival upon the comets surface.
Each of the seven Science papers describes a different aspect of the comet, including observations of the size and density of the dust in its coma and the composition of the organic material on its surface.
One of the papers reveals that jets of gas streaming off the comet are coming primarily from the neck region.
In another report, researchers identified 19 distinct geographical areas on 67P that have been named for Egyptian deities, including Ma'at, Imhotep, Aten and Ash.
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Rosetta mission findings show a comet with cliffs, basins, 'goose bumps'
Nearly 11 years after launch and five months into its cosmic road trip with a comet, the European Space Agency's Rosetta orbiter is providing stunning views and raising puzzling questions about its traveling companion: comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
The comet, 67P for short, sports a rubber-duck-shaped nucleus with goosebumps. It's a Baby Huey, sporting a mass of 10 billion metric tons. It displays more variety in the amount and relative abundance of the gases it sheds than researchers expected. And it sports an array of dust and chunks of debris up to six feet across that orbit the nucleus, like bees unwilling to leave the hive's neighborhood.
These are among the observations the Rosetta science team is unveiling in Friday's issue of the journal Science. Rosetta arrived at the comet last August. The observations researchers have described were gathered during the first two months Rosetta and 67P became co-travelers.
The results so far are "tremendous; they are completely changing what we know about comets," says Dennis Bodewits, a researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park,who focuses on behavior and evolution of comets. "Being able to orbit a comet while it is flying close to the sun, we can see things and really figure out how comets work" at an unprecedented level of detail.
Comets, along with asteroids, represent the construction rubble left over from the solar system's planet-building stage some 4.5 billion years ago. Comets in particular are thought to carry some of the most pristine ingredients the young sun and its extended disk of dust and gas had to offer as raw material for planets. Comets also are known to carry organic compounds and are thought to be one type of vehicle that delivered water and organic chemicals to Earth chemicals that could serve as building blocks for more-complex molecules underpinning organic life.
Comet 67P is providing the most rigorous test yet for ideas about how comets form and evolve as they make their periodic pilgrimages toward the sun and back.
Using Rosetta's OSIRIS cameras one for detailed close-ups of the surface and one for wider views the mission's science team has uncovered an amazing variety of surface features.
On large scales, some portions of the surface appear brittle, with sections hundreds of feet across looking as though they'd collapsed after being undermined. Other regions of the surface appear to be vast rubble piles, while others appear as smooth plains. One region hosts a cliff nearly 3,000 feet tall that rises from the adjoining plain.
Virtually the entire surface is covered in a layer of dark dust. The craft's VIRTIS spectrometer has uncovered an array of molecules with high carbon content in the surface material, but precious little ice. This is unlike other comets similar to 67P members of a class known as Jupiter-family comets with return periods of about 20 years. They get their name from the influence Jupiter's gravity has in shaping their trajectories.
"67P represents a different species in the cometary zoo," writes the VIRTIS team in its contribution to the package of Rosetta results in Science.
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Rosetta's up-close views of comet: stunning, but puzzling (+video)
Nearly 11 years after launch and five months into its cosmic road trip with a comet, the European Space Agency's Rosetta orbiter is providing stunning views and raising puzzling questions about its traveling companion: comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
The comet, 67P for short, sports a rubber-duck-shaped nucleus with goosebumps. It's a Baby Huey, sporting a mass of 10 billion metric tons. It displays more variety in the amount and relative abundance of the gases it sheds than researchers expected. And it sports an array of dust and chunks of debris up to six feet across that orbit the nucleus, like bees unwilling to leave the hive's neighborhood.
These are among the observations the Rosetta science team is unveiling in Friday's issue of the journal Science. Rosetta arrived at the comet last August. The observations researchers have described were gathered during the first two months Rosetta and 67P became co-travelers.
The results so far are "tremendous; they are completely changing what we know about comets," says Dennis Bodewits, a researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park,who focuses on behavior and evolution of comets. "Being able to orbit a comet while it is flying close to the sun, we can see things and really figure out how comets work" at an unprecedented level of detail.
Comets, along with asteroids, represent the construction rubble left over from the solar system's planet-building stage some 4.5 billion years ago. Comets in particular are thought to carry some of the most pristine ingredients the young sun and its extended disk of dust and gas had to offer as raw material for planets. Comets also are known to carry organic compounds and are thought to be one type of vehicle that delivered water and organic chemicals to Earth chemicals that could serve as building blocks for more-complex molecules underpinning organic life.
Comet 67P is providing the most rigorous test yet for ideas about how comets form and evolve as they make their periodic pilgrimages toward the sun and back.
Using Rosetta's OSIRIS cameras one for detailed close-ups of the surface and one for wider views the mission's science team has uncovered an amazing variety of surface features.
On large scales, some portions of the surface appear brittle, with sections hundreds of feet across looking as though they'd collapsed after being undermined. Other regions of the surface appear to be vast rubble piles, while others appear as smooth plains. One region hosts a cliff nearly 3,000 feet tall that rises from the adjoining plain.
Virtually the entire surface is covered in a layer of dark dust. The craft's VIRTIS spectrometer has uncovered an array of molecules with high carbon content in the surface material, but precious little ice. This is unlike other comets similar to 67P members of a class known as Jupiter-family comets with return periods of about 20 years. They get their name from the influence Jupiter's gravity has in shaping their trajectories.
"67P represents a different species in the cometary zoo," writes the VIRTIS team in its contribution to the package of Rosetta results in Science.
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The early results from the Rosetta mission are in, and they reveal that comets are much more complicated than anyone realized.
In a flurry of papers published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers provide the first data-driven snapshot of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko a world of towering cliffs, wide basins, powdery surfaces blacker than coal, and a growing atmosphere that will soon be strong enough to deflect the solar wind.
The picture is starting to come together, said Paul Weissman of NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an interdisciplinary scientist on the European Space Agency-led mission.
A few other spacecraft have flown past comets, but Rosetta is the first to travel alongside one as it makes its way to perihelion, the moment when it is closest to the sun. Comet 67P will reach that milestone in the middle of August.
When the suite of instruments aboard Rosetta first started taking measurements of 67P, the dumbbell-shaped comet was more than 325 million miles from the sun. At that distance, on the other side of the asteroid belt, it was too faint to see from ground-based telescopes.
We don't have a lot of previous observations of comets in that part of the solar system," Weissman said. We are exploring unknown territory.
Most of the findings reported in Science are based on data collected between April and September, when Rosetta was still sailing toward 67P, and months before a lander carried by Rosetta, known as Philae, maneuvered to a nail-biting arrival upon the comets surface.
Each of the seven Science papers describes a different aspect of the comet, including observations of the size and density of the dust in its coma and the composition of the organic material on its surface.
One of the papers reveals that jets of gas streaming off the comet are coming primarily from the neck region.
In another report, researchers identified 19 distinct geographical areas on 67P that have been named for Egyptian deities, including Ma'at, Imhotep, Aten and Ash.
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Workington Comets have been left in limbo over the future of Aussie star Mason Campton after a visa clampdown on British speedway.
VISA TROUBLES: Mason Campton
Administrative issues between the British Speedway Promoters Association (BSPA), a number of speedway clubs and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) have led to the cancellation of non-EU riders visas.
Comets riders Matthew Wethers, from Australia, and Ricky Wells, from the United States, are not believed to be affected because both have leave to settle in the UK, but Camptons visa has been cancelled and the club has surrendered its sponsorship licence, which allows it to sponsor riders to work in the country.
UKVI will hold an operational workshop with promoters to resolve the issues, which came up during regular compliance visits.
Laura Morgan, club owner, said Workington and most of the Premier League clubs were affected.
She added: We had a meeting with a representative of the UKVI in November and were made aware yesterday that some of the BSPA rules we were abiding by werent compliant with UKVI rules, which is what the problem stems from.
Im confident that if we can sort out any problems Mason faces reapplying for his visa he will ride for Workington this season, but I am not confident that will be for the start.
We wait to be instructed as to what the next step should be.
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