Recent Posts Tagged With 'law'

• The Woodbridge Burglaries

  Posted on Tuesday December 29th, 2009 at 17:03 in media, law, connecticut, woodbridge

  Today, I receive an email from the Hartford Police Department. Their Media and Communications Coordinator was responding to a request I had sent to be added to their distribution list. Thank you for your email. I am always looking for new avenues/...

• The Woodbridge Police Department and the National Battle of Open Access for Citizen Journalists

  Posted on Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 at 08:08 in politics, media, MBA, law, connecticut, woodbridge

  It was a quiet day yesterday. I received several notices from the Connecticut Department of transportation about various motor vehicle accidents around the state, including an accident in Stratford. The Attorney General’s office sent me an email ...

• Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit

  Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at 07:24 in technology, media, nanowrimo, law

  #NaNoWriMo, Google Voice, StatusNet, Karmic Koala, Matlab in Joomla, Portfolio Analytics, Ad:Tech, Citizen Journalism conference, Trip to Virginia and to Cape Cod, proceedings in the Cablevision request, CEP, Doninger Case, making cider. The list se...

• The Battle for Digital Cable

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 19:29 in technology, media, law

  Back in September, Cablevision petitioned the FCC to be able to encrypt basic cable in New York City. I submitted my comment to the FCC and have been reading other comments ever since. A wide collection of views have been submitted and some common t...

• Cablevision Seeks to Encrypt Basic Cable

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 11:47 in politics, media, law, connecticut

  On September 23, the FCC released a public notice that “Cablevision Systems Corporation (“Cablevision”) has filed a request … for waiver of Section 76.630(a) of the Commission’s rules with respect to its New York City franchise areas …[wh...

• What’s in a name? Ask ICANN and Twitter.

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 08:45 in politics, education, media, law, connecticut

  What do Martin Luther King, Jr., Glenn Beck and Chris Donovan have in common? Each of them have websites using their names in a critical manner. Recently, I read about the website entitled Glenn Beck Raped and Murdered a Young Girl in 1990 dot com...

• Legal Issues

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 16:52 in politics, media, law, connecticut

  I am not a lawyer, and I don’t particularly think of my blog as a law-blog, however, I do cover legal issues from time to time. People interested in my posts about legal issues are encouraged to read the law section of Orient Lodge, or subscribe t...

• Exploring Different Points of View

  Posted on Saturday September 12th, 2009 at 11:40 in politics, media, law

  Yesterday, I stumbled across a blog post entitled Religious Persecution in Modern Day America?. The post wrote about a “10 year old home-schooled girl named Amanda Kurowski who was ordered by the New Hampshire court to attend regular school beca...

• Barack Obama, Avery Doninger and the Douchebags at the Central Office

  Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 13:20 in politics, law, connecticut

  The recent issues around President Obama’s speech to students across the United States came shortly after I received the Amicus brief filed by the Student Press Law Center on the appeal of the U.S. District Court of Connecticut ruling in the Doning...

• Hopeless Candidates

  Posted on Saturday August 29th, 2009 at 20:17 in politics, law, connecticut

  I have been thinking a lot about Judge Underhill's decision on Thursday where he ruled that the Citizens' Election Program was unconstitutional. Part his reasoning was "that the CEP is not narrowly tailored to achieving the state’s compelling inte...

• Updates: Anthony Maio, Anthem, Marriage Equality, Sheraton Hotel Racism, and other stuff

  Posted on Thursday August 13th, 2009 at 12:04 in politics, law, connecticut, conferences

  Here are updates on some of the stories that I've been following. Anthony Maio I've written several blog posts about the Anthony Maio case including ones on jury selection and attending the trial. On Tuesday, the New Haven Independent which has had...

• And Justice for All – Kenneth Ireland, Andrew Maio, and Sonia Sotomayer

  Posted on Saturday August 8th, 2009 at 10:49 in politics, law, connecticut

  Today, Sonia Sotomayer was be sworn in as the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice in the United States. I have expressed concern about her support of civil rights based on her concurrence on the Doniger case. However, one ruling is not sufficient ...

• The Scarlet Badge – Jury Selection, Part 2

  Posted on Sunday August 2nd, 2009 at 06:45 in law, connecticut

  The case of the New Haven Police Officer accused of Fourth Degree Sexual Abuse is scheduled to start on Monday. I had been selected as a potential juror and have previously written about the Anthony Maio case my experiences with the Jury Selection P...

• The Scarlet Badge – Jury Selection, Part 1

  Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 07:07 in law, connecticut

  It was a rainy summer morning as I headed to the New Haven Superior Courthouse for Jury Duty. I had various concerns on my mind. I would like to be on a jury; I take my civic duty seriously. However, the next day I was supposed to be heading off f...

• The Scarlet Badge – Jury Selection in the Anthony Maio Case

  Posted on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 at 09:41 in politics, media, law, connecticut

  I spent yesterday in jury duty and was empanelled for the Anthony Maio Case. New Haven Police Officer Anthony Maio is accused of two counts of Fourth Degree Sexual Contact without Consent and two counts of Second Degree Unlawful Constraint in an inc...