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...sell 20 rifles without applying for a mandatory federal dealer's license. The right to do so would be asserted in a letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Once a BATF response likely rejecting that claim is received, the association would seek standing in a Federal District Court to litigate its claim, experts say. (See pictures of evidence from the Columbine shootings...
...respect to UC internal structure, raises the number of Council representatives per district—Houses for upperclassmen and clusters of dormitories for freshmen—from two to three. “The Council will be doing more because we’ll have a third rep per district,” said UC Parliamentarian Eric N. Hysen ’11, a main proponent of the Act. The Act also increases the number of standing committees within the Council from two—the Finance Committee and the Student Affairs Committee—to five. The Finance Committee...
Early this year, Massachusetts District Judge Nancy Gertner phoned into a conference call between Harvard Law School professor Charles R. Nesson ’60 and three attorneys from the recording industry. Her intention was to discuss the progress of a case that Nesson had agreed to take on just six months previous—a case centering on Joel Tenenbaum, a 25 year old Boston University physics student being sued by five major record labels for illegally downloading and sharing music online...
...case for a year with the help of only his mother, a small-time family lawyer with little knowledge of civil procedure. The experience was, he says, emotionally and physically destructive, filled with rough treatment and strident demands by the corporate lawyers arrayed against him. When a Massachusetts District Judge contacted Nesson to see if he would take on Joel’s case, it was a relief—a promise of protection arriving in a Harvard Law School envelope...
...Massachusetts District Judge was receptive to his argument, granting the request in a move that would have allowed the state’s first-ever live Internet coverage of a federal court hearing. But the recording industry appealed to a higher court two days later, putting a hold on the broadcast and winning no friends on the Tenenbaum side, which saw what came to be known as the “First Circuit Appeal” as yet another move by powerful interests to restrict access to information online. “At a very basic level, this is about...