The ALA Annual Conference will again be virtual-only in 2021 and for many ALA members, that’s actually great news, as it broadens access to one of the most ambitious and impressive programs of the Covid-19 era.
That question was mostly resolved in the Supreme Court s 6-3 decision today in
Van Buren v. US [PDF]. Writing for the majority, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett said Van Buren, though he flouted departmental policy, did not violate the CFAA by abusing his computer system access. This provision [of the CFAA] covers those who obtain information from particular areas in the computer such as files, folders, or databases to which their computer access does not extend, Associate Justice Barrett wrote. It does not cover those who, like Van Buren, have improper motives for obtaining information that is otherwise available to them.
The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, or the BCLT, recently named intellectual property and patent lawyer Wayne Stacy the new executive director.
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One year after George Floyd: When will white Americans rise up for justice?
A Los Angeles Police helicopter hovers as Joyce Robertson, foreground, clenches her fist in Los Angeles after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 death of George Floyd. (AP photo by Jae C. Hong)
In the long and terrible history of violence against Black people in America, the police killing of George Floyd one year ago may someday stand as a historical marker: After all that the nation has been through, we may have imagined that we had made indelible progress, but the way that Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin planted his knee in Floyd’s neck was a blunt counterpoint.
Tamaki Appointed to Task Force to Study Reparations for African Americans
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SACRAMENTO – As the country continues to confront a history of racial injustice, deeply rooted in the legacy of slavery and systemic racism, Gov. Gavin Newsom on May 7 appointed five individuals to serve on the newly formed Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.
The formation of this task force was made possible by the governor’s signing of AB 3121, authored by then-Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), which established a nine-member task force to inform Californians about slavery and explore ways the state might provide reparations.