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24 Aug 2010, 8:41 am
PSLawNet is a great resource for students and alums interested in careers in public interest and public service. The website has actual job postings (for internships, summer jobs, and post-grad jobs) and also an amazing searchable directory of public interest/service employers. You may find PSLawNet's brand new revised handout which describes the services it provides here. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 6:26 am
While rumors are flying that the FCC is rushing to adopt its proposals to require that TV stations put their public inspection files online (see our summary of the proposals here), both the FCC and public interest groups are targeting the public files of television stations - looking to copy some or all of those files. Rumors are that the FCC inspected the public files of all television stations in at least one city - and asked for copies of the complete files to be produced at the FCC within a… [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 8:00 am
The six months that the FCC gave to television stations to upload the contents of their paper public files to their new online public file seemed like a long time back in August, when the deadline was announced and the online public file rule became effective. But that deadline is upon us, and the FCC yesterday issued a reminder that television broadcasters (full power and Class A stations) need to have all of their required documents uploaded to their online public file by Monday, February… [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 2:57 am
“The Grand Chamber of the ECtHR recently tackled the question of whether the police tactic of ‘kettling’ (verb, UK, of the police – to contain demonstrators in a confined area) amounted to a deprivation of the liberty of four applicants within the meaning of Article 5(1) of the ECHR.”
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UK Human Rights Blog, 2nd April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com [read post]
30 Nov 2012, 4:05 am
A question I am frequently and increasingly being asked by my colleagues is whether modern uses of technology to engage in sexual banter can constitute adultery as a ground for divorce in South Carolina. Sexting, instant messaging, emailing, online role playing games and constant or lengthy phone calls (often assumed to be “phone sex”) have all been cited as evidence of adultery. Combined with evidence of opportunity to commit an act of physical intimacy I certainly see their… [read post]
31 Aug 2010, 8:46 am
Registration for the Equal Justice Works 2010 Conference and Career Fair has opened! On October 22 and 23, over 1,000 students and law school professionals will come together for the opportunity to meet with more than 130 public interest employers, practitioners, and leaders. Student / Graduate Registration: Students and graduates may begin applying for posted positions and registering to attend [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 9:55 am
Are you ready to file your next license renewal application? It seems like the last license renewal cycle just ended (in fact, the last cycle is not over, as evidenced by the fact that the FCC in the last week has released several decisions dealing with late-filed renewals from the last cycle, and many TV stations still have license renewals that have not been granted due to pending indecency issues). Nevertheless, a whole new cycle of Form 303 license renewal applications will soon be… [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 1:30 pm
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CASA Lawyer Michelle Fontenot
One of the things that led me to even think about a career in the law was my experience volunteering as a guardian ad litem. I found out about the position when reading the novel My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Feel like sobbing hysterically? Give it a read). In the book the main character, a child, was represented by a GAL lawyer in a legal action against her parents.
Years later, I was… [read post]
12 Feb 2013, 2:01 pm
Unbeknownst to me until last week, on December 2, 2012 the South Carolina Supreme Court denied certiorari in the case of Moeller v. Moeller, 394 S.C. 365, 714 S.E.2d 898 (Ct. App. 2011), thus enshrining into South Carolina appellate case law one of the stupidest bases to award (heck, reverse) custody that our appellate courts have yet conceived.
One of the reasons the Court of Appeals in Moeller reversed the award of custody to Husband was that it had the effect of separating the parties’ two… [read post]
5 Jun 2013, 8:02 am
“A former Metropolitan police officer who had access to private information about wealthy Chelsea residents including the Duchess of Cambridge and Tetra Pak heir Hans Rausing has been jailed for two years for selling stories about them to the Sun.”
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The Guardian, 5th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 10:13 am
This two-part webinar series, cosponsored by NALP and Equal Justice Works, will provide law students with insight on the key elements of the summer public-interest job application process. Attorneys with years of application review experience will highlight do’s and don’ts; explain how and why public interest application materials may substantively differ from law firm materials; and explore [read post]
29 Aug 2010, 12:00 pm
I just wrote a post about whether the solo-small realm is better than working at a big firm. Another crossroads that many lawyers encounter is working for a big firm or doing public interest work. According to a recent article, more attorneys are choosing public interest work over a gig at a big firm. Helping [...]---------------------
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13 Jul 2012, 5:00 am
Though not a family court appeal, the July 11, 2012 Supreme Court opinion in State v. Whitner has important application to family court proceedings. Whitner sets the parameters under which a parent may tape a child’s telephone conversations without that child’s consent.
In Whitner, Mother, based on concerns that their child was being sexually abused by Father, taped the child’s telephone conversations with Father without Father’s consent or knowledge. Mother and Stepfather testified they… [read post]
19 Dec 2010, 4:58 pm
“Regulatory capture” occurs when special interests co-opt policymakers or political bodies — regulatory agencies, in particular — to further their own ends. Capture theory is closely related to the “rent-seeking” and “political failure” theories developed by the public choice school of economics. Another term for regulatory capture is “client politics,” which according to James Q. Wilson, “occurs when most or all of the benefits of a program go to some single, reasonably… [read post]
29 Oct 2012, 4:00 am
Last September, broadcasters and amici supporters filed their briefs in the Second Circuit in WNET v Aereo. Within the last week or so, Aereo and its amici began to file their briefs in response. You can read Aereo’s brief here, as well as a brief from the EFF, Public Knowledge and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and a brief from law professors.
Aereo, if you recall, is an online service which, like cable or satellite TV, retransmits broadcast television signals to paying services.… [read post]
29 May 2012, 3:50 am
“Statement from Alison Levitt QC, Principal Legal Advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions:
On the 2 April 2012 the Crown Prosecution Service received a file of evidence from the Metropolitan Police Service requesting charging advice in relation to two suspects. The first is a serving Metropolitan Police Officer in the Operation Weeting team whose name is not in the public domain. He is currently suspended. The second suspect is Amelia Hill, a journalist who writes for The Guardian… [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 9:44 am
The Online Public File for television stations is now a reality. While appeals of the imposition of the rules remain pending, both the FCC and the US Court of Appeals denied stays of the August 2 effective date for the new requirements, so full-power and Class A television stations should now be complying with the new obligations to maintain their public files online. The Online Public File is hosted by the FCC, and uses the FCC’s newly created system for uploading, storing and accessing the… [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 7:38 pm
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Welcome back to the third installment of The Offbeat Path! This month is particularly special to me, as our interviewee, Caitlin Gossett, is a friend from Notre Dame, which is where we both attended law school! I hope you’ll enjoy her story. Please feel free to contact me at carissa.mulder@gmail.com if you have questions, comments, or would like to discuss being profiled!
Caitlin, in her own words:
I am a… [read post]
23 Apr 2013, 9:28 am
In a decision granting the license renewal of a noncommercial radio station, the FCC’s Media Bureau addressed a number of interesting issues – including the requirements for noncommercial underwriting announcements, whether PSAs meet a station’s public service obligations, and the ability of stations to run cigarette ads in historical radio programs from early radio days. These issues all came up in a decision to renew the station’s license despite a… [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 6:35 pm
I happily represent a number of parents in family court whom the general population would label perverts. Perhaps this is a result of my growing up in what may have been the most sexually accepting bourgeois society in American history (the San Fernando Valley in the late 1970’s: think Boogie Nights). There’s a tremendous amount of sexual behavior that doesn’t interest me but doesn’t bother me either. You can get a decent feel for the sort of odd behaviors some of my clients engage in… [read post]