Tag Archives: Law & Policy

Your lips say no, but…

By alex | Published: 8/15/2006
Mark Frank joined the faculty at UB a year before I left. Seemed to be doing some really interesting work, and had a cool lab to play with. Had a chance to poke around just before I left, and they are doing some fun stuff. Now you can do a quick visit too. CBS News […]
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Permissions

By alex | Published: 7/7/2006
I guess this is PSA week at the blog. I liked this, though I guess he forgot to ask these guys.
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Tort reform

By alex | Published: 7/4/2006
No, this isn’t really about tort reform. Mike Ferner posts about getting arrested for drinking coffee while wearing a political T-shirt. He wore a Veterans for Peace short in a Chicago VA hospital and was arrested for “protesting” in the hospital. My thought is that it isn’t enough for a court to just dismiss the […]
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Librarian under fire for following the law

By alex | Published: 6/23/2006
A New Jersey librarian has been disciplined for refusing to divulge patrons’ private borrowing records without a subpoena. This isn’t a PATRIOT issue: it was local police trying to track down a possible child predator. The police had the title of a book that had been reported by the child, and asked the librarian to […]
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