ExOb (Adoption in the United States – the book)
Adoption in the U.S. the book! Excellent resource about adoption & its aftermath, law, policy and social aspects @ Link
Express Observation (NCFA vs. Donaldson on Open Records)
National Council for Adoption denounces Evan B. Donaldson's call for open adoption records in unyielding report Link
Express Observation (Title IX and 1983)
Recent Supreme Court ruling holds that Title IX doesn't preclude Section 1983 action in school gender discrimination COA Link
Express Observation (Federalize International Adoption)
A federal solution to our international adoption child trafficking mess? This article examines the issues Link
Express Observation (Pedo-Polanski Whitewash)
Great piece on Salon.com called Whitewashing Roman Polanski on why pedo-Polanski should not be given leniency Link
A New Frontier for Victims of Child Pornography
Lest anyone think that all I do is sit around and pontificate all day, our law firm has actual clients with some groundbreaking issues.
Yesterday, a federal judge in Bridgeport, Connecticut established a "new frontier" in favor of exploited children when he ordered a wealthy former Pfizer executive to pay about $200,000 to our client, a girl whose images the executive had obtained through the Internet from another collector of child pornography.
The ruling, the first of its kind in the country, comes against Alan Hesketh, a man who downloaded, viewed and traded child ...
Fox News Gives us our Street Creds
Now that this round of the Facebook debate is over, it's time to take our bows and acknowledge our creds, aptly supplied by none other than Fox News. According to FoxNews.com reporter Jana Winter (who actually reads this blog):
"Companies get into trouble when they try to move that content beyond the four corners of their service -- that's what Facebook tried to do -- and use content for commercial exploits," said James R. Marsh, a lawyer who writes ChildLaw Blog, which first posted news of Facebook's TOS change late last month.
In the extreme, he said, "They can take ...