Van Jones Considers Legal Action Against Fox News, Demands Glenn Beck Retraction

Jones, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress who resigned from his job as White House “green jobs” czar following the conservative host's repeated claims that he was a subversive and a Communist, is considering legal action against Beck-employer Fox News.

Jones’ attorney sent a cease and desist letter Monday to Dianne Brandi, the network’s executive vice president for legal & business affairs, claiming that “a series of sensational and inflammatory charges” have been made against Jones on Fox News shows. The statements, his attorney Joseph Sandler argues, are “demonstrably, unequivocally and absolutely false.”

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Dying with Your Rights On: Mental Illness, Civil Rights and Saving Lives

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Dying with Your Rights On: Mental Illness, Civil Rights and Saving Lives: "Our laws stipulate that Bishop had to consent to provide information to her family, which she did not. Privacy violations would have been the consequence of the hospital contacting her family during the hospital stay or at the time of discharge. Bishop's 'right' to live where (and how) she wanted derives from legal rulings that stipulate a person's right to live in what is called 'the least restrictive setting.'

The letter of the law had been met. And the patient died."

TheDartmouth.com: Activist shares stories of homelessness, poverty

TheDartmouth.com: Activist shares stories of homelessness, poverty: "Honkala, who went on to found the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, said. “I then became a teenage mother, and I hit an all-time low. I had no financial resources and I began living in a white Camaro.”"

Volunteers of America - Once Homeless, Now an Activist

Volunteers of America - Once Homeless, Now an Activist: "she incorporated a private, nonprofit faith-based organization, 'Homeless To Independence,"

Neuroimaging May Be a Mind Reader

Neuroimaging May Be a Mind Reader: "'The ability to decode and distinguish specific cognitive states from brain imaging data constitutes a major goal of neuroscience,' the researchers, led by Michael Greicius, MD, write."

the 13th juror: Homeless can bring class-action suit for destruction of their property

the 13th juror: Homeless can bring class-action suit <br>for destruction of their property Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Homeless can bring class-action suit
for destruction of their property

Homeless people who had their personal property destroyed by Fresno officials can join a class-action lawsuit against the city, a federal judge has ruled.

"People who are homeless, without residence, whose property has been taken and immediately destroyed," may file a class-action civil rights suit against Fresno, Judge Oliver W. Wanger said.

Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights sued the city the behalf of six homeless plaintiffs, claiming police and sanitation workers violated their rights by defining their property as trash and bulldozing their makeshift encampments.

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"an enforceable right to shelter for homeless children and their families is now permanent," Banks said, "no matter what administration is in office, no matter who is mayor."