Environmental concerns linger over the J.H. Baxter plant in Eugene’s Bethel neighborhood. After 80 years of operation, the wood treatment facility shut down for good in January, but legal cases and calls for accountability still dog it, and now it faces more penalties from regulatory agencies. KLCC has more in this investigative update.
Bernstein v. the U.S. Department of State, landmark legal decision (1996) that set two important precedents in the field of digital technology. First, it ruled that U.S. government regulations that barred the export of encryption software were unconstitutionally restrictive; second, it declared that software source code can be a form of protected free speech. In the lawsuit a federal court was asked to rule in a dispute between the U.S. government and Daniel Bernstein, a mathematics professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to determine if he had the right to distribute encryption software of his own creation over
Bernstein v. the U.S. Department of State, landmark legal decision (1996) that set two important precedents in the field of digital technology. First, it ruled that U.S. government regulations that barred the export of encryption software were unconstitutionally restrictive; second, it declared that software source code can be a form of protected free speech. In the lawsuit a federal court was asked to rule in a dispute between the U.S. government and Daniel Bernstein, a mathematics professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to determine if he had the right to distribute encryption software of his own creation over