News Bites
Friday, November 20, 2009
Media, News Bites Still More on the Mezuzah
Posted by Michael Miner on Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Only hard-core courts buffs are sticking with me on this, my third post on the subject of the Seventh Circuit's en banc mezuzah ruling. But if you're hanging in, I recommend the oral arguments.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Media, News Bites More Chicago in the New York Times, Courtesy of Reader Executives
Posted by Michael Miner on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:52 PM
As a New York Times subscriber, I received the following email:
"Your edition of The New York Times is about to get local. Every Friday & Sunday.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Media, News Bites Bloch v. Frischholz — It's Not Just About a Mezuzah
Posted by Michael Miner on Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:47 PM
The other day I called the Seventh Circuit's reversal in Bloch v. Frischholz, a lawsuit involving a mezuzah hung in a hallway against the wishes of the condo association, a victory for Appellate Judge Diane Wood. It might be much more than that.
Media, News Bites, News About the Thomson Prison Debate
Posted by Michael Miner on Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:15 PM
I join Neil Steinberg in condemning Congressman Mark Kirk for the letter Kirk sent President Obama urging him to put those "200 Al Qaeda terrorists" somewhere else, for if they're transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the state prison in Thomson, Illinois, "our state and the Chicago Metropolitan Area will become ground zero for Jihadist terrorist plots, recruitment and radicalization."
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Chicagoland, Media, News Bites Long-Awaited Broadcast Museum State Grant Almost, But Not Quite, A Done Deal
Posted by Deanna Isaacs on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Persistence may yet pay off for beleaguered Museum of Broadcast Communications head Bruce Dumont: he says both houses of the state legislature have approved a $6 million Capital Development Fund grant that'll permit construction to resume on MBC's State Street building (at Kinzie).
Media, News Bites Patrick Tuite Settles, but the Terms Are None of Our Business
Posted by Michael Miner on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:06 PM
The Reader received the other day a nearly blank sheet of paper passing itself off as a press release. At the top of the sheet PRESS RELEASE had been typed, and beneath that heading this message:
Monday, November 16, 2009
Media, News Bites, News Reader owner Creative Loafing has a new CEO
Posted by Alison True on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Michael Bogdan, of Atalaya Capital Management, which recently acquired the Reader's parent company, Creative Loafing, in a bankruptcy auction has announced the appointment of a new CEO.
Friday, November 13, 2009
News Bites, News The Mezuzah Case — A Victory for Judge Diane Wood
Posted by Michael Miner on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:35 PM
If federal judges are like the rest of us they have their good days and bad days, the assignments they really set their minds to and the ones where you wonder if while they were putting in their eight hours they also had a game of computer Scrabble going.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Media, News Bites Grounds to Rehear the Jamie Kalven Petition?
Posted by Michael Miner on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:32 PM
In rejecting Jamie Kalven's petition for a list of 662 Chicago police officers with tainted records, a panel of three federal appellate judges said Kalven lacked standing to intervene in the case for which the list was prepared. And one big reason he lacked standing, said the judges, is that the plaintiff in that case expressed no support for Kalven's petition.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Media, News Bites The Seventh Circuit Rules Against Jamie Kalven
Posted by Michael Miner on Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Two years ago federal judge Joan Lefkow lifted a protective order that kept hidden a list of so-called rogue cops — police officers who over the previous five years had had ten or more beefs filed against them. But the public has yet to see that list, and a panel of three appellate judges just saw to it that the day we will won’t come any time soon.
