AScribe Law News Service articles from March 2004

AScribe Law News Service archives from March 2004

San Francisco Election: Expert Available to Comment in Support of Proposition J.
March 1, 2004... Byline: David Perry & Associates SAN FRANCISCO, March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Brett Gladstone of the San Francisco law firm Gladstone & Associates is available to comment on Proposition J. WHO: Brett Gladstone / Gladstone & Associates...

The Reality of Home Design: Kansas State University Professors Discuss Home Improvement Trend in Television.
March 1, 2004... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., March 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Home improvement reality television shows like "Trading Spaces" or "Design on a Dime" can provide entertainment, fun ideas and useful tips. But sometimes the...

Distribution of Antiradiation Pills in Nuclear Incidents Should Be Left to State, Local Governments, Says Professor at UC Irvine's Graduate School of Management; State-by-State Report Details Stockpiling, Distribution.
March 2, 2004... Byline: UC Irvine Graduate School of Management IRVINE, Calif., March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- A national research committee recommends that state and local governments make their own decisions about protecting the public from radioactive...

Victory for Gun Violence Prevention in U.S. Senate.
March 2, 2004... Byline: Legal Community Against Violence SAN FRANCISCO, March 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Today, in a victory for gun violence prevention and responsible gun laws, the U.S. Senate rejected a bill that would have granted the gun industry...

Rodger McFarlane Appointed Executive Director of the Gill Foundation; Long-Time Activist to Lead Nation's Largest Funder of Gay & Lesbian Organizations.
March 3, 2004... Byline: The Gill Foundation DENVER, March 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Gill Foundation's board of directors is pleased to announce that Rodger McFarlane has accepted the position of Executive Director of the Denver-based Gill Foundation,...

Who's Who of International Women's Rights Gather in San Francisco to Support the Global Fund for Women.
March 3, 2004... Byline: Global Fund for Women SAN FRANCISCO, March 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Global Fund for Women today released the following advisory. --- WHAT: International women's rights leaders join the Global Fund for Women, the largest...

Dignitaries Join Global Fund for Women to Launch First-Ever Endowment for World's Women in San Francisco.
March 4, 2004... Byline: Global Fund for Women SAN FRANCISCO, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- International women's rights leaders join the Global Fund for Women, the only US-based foundation that exclusively funds women's rights groups overseas, to announce...

March Culture & Living News Tips From Washington University in St. Louis.
March 4, 2004... Byline: Washington University, St. Louis ST. LOUIS, March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The following are news and feature story ideas from Washington University in St. Louis. For more information on any of the stories below or for assistance in...

University of Georgia Expert Says Indecency Regulation Is Fueled by Election Year Posturing.
March 4, 2004... Byline: University of Georgia ATHENS, Ga., March 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Many politicians now complaining about indecency on television and radio are engaging in election-year posturing that could threaten freedom of expression in the...

Women's History Month: Experts Available.
March 5, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University experts can talk about a variety of issues related to Women's History Month, including gender issues in the workplace, sexism, American women...

Meeting of Women Who Gave Birth to Women's History Month to Be Held at Sarah Lawrence College, Where It Started.
March 5, 2004... Byline: Sarah Lawrence College YONKERS, N.Y., March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Women's History Month was born at Sarah Lawrence College 25 years ago this summer. On Monday, March 8, six of the women responsible for its creation - participants...

Advice for a Post-Trial Martha: Avoid Talk Shows, Stay Above The Fray.
March 5, 2004... Byline: Lehigh University BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- As Martha Stewart faces the prospect of jail time after a jury found her guilty on all four of the felony charges she faced, public relations and crisis communications...

Predatory Lending Is Subverting American Dream, New Inner City Press Book 'Predatory Bender' Shows; Certain Major Banks Corrupt Political, Judicial, Social Systems, Locally and Globally: What Consumers, Communities Can Do.
March 8, 2004... Byline: Inner City Press NEW YORK, March 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Loan sharking is illegal... unless it is conducted by national banks like Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase. For these corporations, so-called subprime lending is a major source...

Mixed Messages on Marriage -- by Frank Furstenberg.
March 8, 2004... Byline: Council on Contemporary Families NEW YORK, March 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following is an editorial by Frank Furstenberg, Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Senior Research Scholar at...

CPJ Releases Annual Press Freedom Survey: 36 Journalists Killed, 136 Jailed in 2003; China World's Leading Jailer of Journalists for Fifth Year in a Row.
March 10, 2004... Byline: Committee to Protect Journalists NEW YORK, March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- A total of 36 journalists were killed worldwide as a direct result of their work in 2003, while 136 were behind bars, according to the Committee to Protect...

Sports Violence Increasingly Likely to Prompt Legal Action, Duke Law Professor Says.
March 11, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The season-ending suspension and $250,000 fine handed down today (Thursday) by the National Hockey League against the Vancouver Canucks' Todd Bertuzzi for his attack on...

University of Maryland Experts Take Stock During Women's History Month.
March 11, 2004... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Where do women really stand in their quest for equal status with men in the United States? Despite the gains made in the last century, University...

Barred From Life: Dance, Performance Event Explores Tragedy of Wrongful Conviction; SCU Professor Interviews Exonerees to Create Artistic Interpretation of Their Experience.
March 11, 2004... Byline: Santa Clara University SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- James Newsome was a victim of false identification and spent 15 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit; Delbert Tibbs spent time on death row before...

Education in the 21st Century: Desegregation or Resegregation?
March 15, 2004... Byline: Spelman College ATLANTA, March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Teachers as Leaders: 50 Years After Brown vs. Board of Education" was the theme of a recent panel discussion hosted at Spelman College. Panelists included President Beverly...

News Tip: 2003 Spam Law About to Be Put to the Test, Duke University Researcher Says.
March 15, 2004... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., March 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Lawsuits recently filed by four of the largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) against a number of named and unnamed spammers will put the Can Spam Act of 2003 to the...

Duquesne University, University of Pittsburgh to Hold Major National Public Events Observing 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education; March 26, May 7.
March 16, 2004... Byline: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Duquesne University President Charles Dougherty and University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg jointly announce a pair of major free public programs to...

Worldwide Methyl Bromide Phase Out to be Addressed at March Meeting in Montreal.
March 16, 2004... Byline: California Certified Organic Farmers SANTA CRUZ, Calif., March 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Over the past decade, great progress has been made under the 1987 Montreal Protocol and the Clean Air Act to phase out production and use of...

UC San Diego Professor Invited to Participate in National Blue Ribbon Panel on Video Surveillance.
March 18, 2004... Byline: University of California, San Diego SAN DIEGO, March 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- A bipartisan organization in the nation's capital has selected University of California, San Diego, electrical and computer engineering professor Mohan...

Lehigh University Experts Are Available for Comment on Back-to-School Topics.
March 19, 2004... Byline: Lehigh University BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following are experts and topics from Lehigh University regarding back-to-school issues. To schedule an interview or obtain more information, contact Kim Plyler at...

Brady Campaign/Million Mom March Uses Convio Online Tools to Quickly Mobilize 160,000-Plus Activists, Achieve Victory on Capitol Hill; Gun Safety Group's Viral Email Campaign Creates Urgency, Helps Prompt Senate to Defeat Immunity Bill.
March 22, 2004... Byline: Convio AUSTIN, Texas, March 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Just 150 days after going live with Convio, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence United with the Million Mom March mobilized 163,000 advocates to take action online,...

Vended Water Co. Promised to Clean Up Its Act, But Now Seeks to Weaken Health Standards.
March 23, 2004... Byline: Environmental Working Group SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Last year Glacier Water Services, the nation's largest retailer of drinking water from vending machines, settled a consumer fraud lawsuit by promising...

Policy Review in Science Calls for Bush Administration to Protect Wild Salmon; Government Appointed Panel of Scientists Responds to NMFS 'Censorship' by Publishing in Science.
March 25, 2004... Byline: SeaWeb WASHINGTON, March 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- Authors of the Policy Forum in the March 26 issue of the international journal Science call for the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to protect wild salmon stocks whose...

U.S. AIDS Policy Threatens Lives -- by David Rabin, M.D.
March 29, 2004... Byline: American Jewish World Service NEW YORK, March 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following is an editorial by David Rabin, M.D., internist and professor of family and community health at Georgetown University's Medical School and board member...

Gay and Lesbian Atlas Displays First Detailed Portrait of Same-Sex Households across U.S.; Available May 3.
March 30, 2004... Byline: The Urban Institute WASHINGTON, March 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- While it may come as no surprise that San Francisco and Provincetown host large gay and lesbian populations, few might guess that Albuquerque and Jersey City are among...

Rwandan Genocide 10th Anniversary: Correcting the Record -- University of Maryland Expert.
March 30, 2004... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Ten years after the Rwandan genocide, the worst mass killings of recent times, the historical record and basic facts need major correction,...

Purdue University Engineers Design 'Shape-Search' for Industry Databases.
March 30, 2004... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- Engineers at Purdue University are developing a system that will enable people to search huge industry databases by sketching a part from memory, penciling in...

AARP, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Announce Official Launch of VoicesofCivilRights.org.
March 30, 2004... Byline: AARP WASHINGTON, March 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- AARP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) today announced the official launch of www.VoicesofCivilRights.org, the online home to the most extensive archive of...

Statistics Abuse, Half-Baked Hype Mark 'Child Abuse Prevention Month' Child Advocacy Group Says; National Coalition for Child Protection Reform Offers 'Alternative Prevention Agenda'.
March 31, 2004... Byline: National Coalition for Child Protection Reform ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- A well-meaning effort to prevent child abuse has degenerated into an orchestrated campaign of "statistics abuse and half-baked hype"...

Secession of the Successful? Residents of California's Planned Housing Developments Do Not 'Opt Out' of Civic Life; Planned Neighborhoods Have Wide Income - But Less Racial - Diversity.
March 31, 2004... Byline: Public Policy Institute of California SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- The explosion of planned housing communities in California in recent decades has raised a number of key questions for public policy: Are they simply...

University of Central Florida Data-Sharing System Helps Police Nab Suspects, Shorten Investigations.
March 31, 2004... Byline: University of Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla., March 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new data-sharing system developed at the University of Central Florida has helped law enforcement officials make more than 70 arrests since October while...