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Saturday, January 11, 2014

“Eric Holder Criticized On Anniversary Of Aaron Swartz Death”: Matt Sledge of The Huffington Post has this report.

And Megan Geuss of Ars Technica reports that “On the anniversary of the death of Aaron Swartz, Anonymous hacks MIT again; And one year after the activist’s suicide, Swartz’s father speaks to Boston Magazine.”

Update: At “The Switch” blog of The Washington Post, Andrea Peterson has an entry titled “The law used to prosecute Aaron Swartz remains unchanged a year after his death.”

Posted at 10:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Administration: Birth control doesn’t directly violate company’s religious rights.” Jennifer Haberkorn of Politico.com has a report that begins, “The Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most employers provide contraception in their health plans, even if a company’s owners have religious objections.”

Posted at 9:32 PM by Howard Bashman



“Blogger’s Incarceration Raises First Amendment Questions”: Campbell Robertson will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 9:23 PM by Howard Bashman



“The Myth of the Anti-Government Constitution: The Supreme Court should overturn a circuit-court ruling in Noel Canning v. NLRB that would hamstring the president’s ability to make recess appointments.” Law professor Peter M. Shane has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

Posted at 8:57 PM by Howard Bashman