From the New York Sun:
A New York Sun reporter won an unusual victory in federal court in San Francisco last week, when a federal judge ordered the Department of Justice and other government agencies to respond to the reporter’s request for a variety of documents that could show what efforts the Bush administration has made [...]
Archive of entries posted on December 2006
Reporter Wins A Court Battle With Government
Democratic House Leaders Use New Powers to Fight Bush’s EPA Research Library Closings
From BuzzFlash:
House Democratic leaders are using their new authority as pending committee chairmen to push the EPA to stop closing its research libraries. . .
. . .EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson was given a letter demanding he “maintain the status quo” by Committee Ranking Members Bart Gordon (Science), Henry Waxman (Reform), John Dingell (Energy and Commerce), [...]
Google suffers setback in copyright case
From USA Today:
Yahoo has rebuffed Google’s attempt to learn more about its efforts to create digital copies of books, dealing the Internet search leader another setback as it prepares to fight against a copyright infringement suit.
In rejecting Google’s request, Yahoo adopted the same stance taken last month by Internet retailer Amazon.com.
Bloggers must soon give real names
From China Daily:
Officials with the Internet Society of China (ISC) have confirmed that China is exploring adopting a real name system in parts of the Internet, Shanghai-based Oriental Morning Post reported Wednesday.
Hu Qiheng, chairman of the board of directors of the ISC, was reported to have said on Tuesday at Info China 2006 in Beijing [...]