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Jan 13, 2013

No Gun Charge Against Meet the Press Host

In a letter to NBC's lawyers, District of Columbia Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan announced that while the exhibition of an empty magazine capable of holding up to 30 rounds of ammunition by "Meet the Press" host David Gregory was illegal under the District's gun control laws, his office "has determined to exercise its prosecutorial discretion to decline to bring criminal charges against Mr. Gregory ... ."

Jan 6, 2013

Negligence Claims Against Twitter Won't Last

(cross posted at the Citizen Media Law Project)
A Tulsa, Oklahoma girl and her mother are suing Booker T. Washington High School and Twitter, alleging that another member of the daughter's basketball team held the daughter while another teammate took pictures of her in her underwear, and sent the photos as tweets.