Federal Courts' Camera Experiment Rolls On

(cross posted at the Citizen Media Law Project)
After a slow start, the latest experiment of video cameras in federal courtrooms, announced last October, appears to be finally starting to roll.

Radio Daze

I was interviewed this morning on Oregon Public Broadcasting about defamation online as part of a segment on an Oregon doctor who sued a woman who blogged and tweeted about a 2001 disciplinary incident against the doctor.  (The case was settled last week.)

The segment is available here.

A New Contender in Oregon

For a while I've been tracking a number of defamation cases stemming from posts on Twitter -- including several involving singer Courtney Love -- to see which would be the first Twitter libel case to go to trial in an American court. Now a new contender -- a case from Oregon -- has emerged as a possible contender.

On the Back Page

My latest article, "Cameras roll in new federal court experiment," appears as "The Back Page" column -- on, you guessed it, the back page -- of this month's issue of The Brechner Report, published by the University of Florida.

Another Score in My Media Blitz

Those of you who know me know that I'm not exactly a huge sports fan. My hometown roots lead me to support the often-hapless New York Mets, and I'll attend or watch games of various sports with some friends, but that's about it.