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...Immigrants represent a minority of the uninsured: Eighty percent of those without health insurance are native-born or naturalized citizens. However, immigrants are more likely to be uninsured than legal residents. Racial minorities are also disproportionately represented; about one-third of Hispanics and one-fifth of blacks go without insurance, compared with 13% of whites. (Read "How Valid Is the Insurers' Attack on Health Reform...
...statutory requirements for the creation and release of a police log do not extend to the addresses to which the police respond,” wrote Supervisor of Records Alan Cote in his letter to Harris explaining his ruling against the appeal. The CPD’s legal advisor received a copy of the letter yesterday, though Harris said the Chronicle had not been informed of the decision when The Crimson called for comment...
Providing the addresses of police dispatches would require reviewing, copying and re-filing over 500 reports, about 25 hours of work according to an e-mail CPD legal adviser Kelly A. Downes wrote to Harris...
...Trafigura's legal representatives, the London-based law firm Carter-Ruck, had obtained a secret injunction in September to prevent the Guardian from revealing the existence of a report commissioned by the oil trader about the alleged 2006 dumping of toxic waste off the Ivory Coast by a ship chartered by the company. The lawyers then tried to stop the Guardian from telling its readers about a written question lodged in Parliament this week by Paul Farrelly, a Labour MP. His question mentioned both the secret injunction and the report. (Read "Bobby on the Tweet: British Police Try Twitter...
...puzzle. By lunchtime, the text of Farrelly's question had been widely circulated. Bloggers also supplied their interpretations of events. The comedian and avid Twitterer Stephen Fry galvanized his more than 800,000 followers into action with the following tweet containing links to two brief online reports of the legal battle: "Outrageous gagging order. It's in reference to the Trafigura oil dumping scandal. Grotesque and squalid." (See the top 10 celebrity Twitter feeds...