Italian prosecutor seeks jail for Google execs for video of disabled youth being abused
MILAN — An Italian prosecutor demanded jail time Wednesday for four Google executives charged in absentia with Defamation and violating privacy for allowing a video to be posted online showing an autistic youth being abused. Prosecutor Alfredo Robledo is seeking a one-year term for three executives for violating privacy, and six months for a fourth for Defamation in the case. Sentencing is expected Dec. 23. "This prosecution is akin to prosecuting mail service employees for hate speech...

Italian prosecutor seeks jail for Google execs for video of disabled youth being abused
MILAN — An Italian prosecutor is seeking jail time for four Google executives for allowing a video to be posted online showing an autistic youth being abused. Prosecutor Alfredo Robledo argued Wednesday that a company's right to operate must be balanced with the rights protected under the constitution, and that the prosecution was not a question of Censorship. He is seeking a one-year term for three executives for violating privacy, and six months for a third for Defamation. The...

Italian Prosecutors Request Jail Time For Google Execs
Italian prosecutors have - sort of - tried to put several Google executives (and the company's former CFO) in jail.  The prosecutors requested sentences ranging from six months to one year in connection with a case that involved a YouTube video and a disabled boy. In September of 2006, a clip showing several teens making fun of a classmate with Down Syndrome was uploaded to YouTube.  Employees took it Down about two months later, but prosecutors have made the case that Google knew...

Italian prosecutors seek jail time for Google executives
MILAN — An Italian prosecutor demanded jail time Wednesday for four Google executives charged in absentia with Defamation and violating privacy for allowing a video to be posted online showing an autistic youth being abused. Prosecutor Alfredo Robledo is seeking a one-year term for three executives for violating privacy, and six months for a fourth for Defamation in the case. Sentencing is expected Dec. 23. "This prosecution is akin to prosecuting mail service employees for hate speech...

Fox News Lets Jon Get Under Its Skin, Again
Fox News commentator Bernard Goldberg is just so sad that Jon Stewart doesn’t like him anymore, and he made a point of saying so on last night’s O’Reilly Factor . Stewart slammed Goldberg the night before on The Daily Show for Goldberg's comment that liberals don’t “allow” Down Syndrome babies “to happen.” Right, Stewart said, “In fact, Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics because she wanted an organized forum where she could...

Miley Cyrus Sparkles With Cheerleaders: VIDEO
Miley Cyrus gave the Spartan Sparkles Cheerleaders a surprise recently for the Oprah Show. The Cheerleading group is made up of ten girls with special needs

New drug gives hope for Down's Syndrome
In a recent study performed on lab mice who have the rodent version of Down's Syndrome, there is new hope that a drug can help reduce the effect of Down's

Mouse study points to treatment for Down syndrome
Chicago (Reuters) - Increasing the levels of a message-carrying chemical in the brain may help prevent some of the memory deficits in Down Syndrome that hinder learning and make it hard for the brain to develop normally, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. They said mice with a rodent version of Down Syndrome that were injected with drugs to increase levels of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine -- which nerve cells use to communicate -- showed improvements in their thinking ability.

Sarah Palin: Levi Johnston Doesn't Have Anything on Me: PHOTO
Following her interview with Oprah Winfrey on Monday, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin continues to promote her book, sitting Down with Barbara Walters to set the record straight about claims made by Levi Johnston that her marriage is on the rocks and that she called her youngest child Trig a derogatory term. Johnston, 19, claimed on "The Early Show" last month that Palin had called Trig, who is afflicted with Down Syndrome, "retarded." "That's heartbreaking to know that that he...

Mouse study points to Down syndrome treatment
Washington, Nov 19 - ANI: A new American study suggests a fresh new approach of slowing Down cognitive dysfunction that takes place in Down Syndrome. Down's Syndrome is caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome and significantly reduces contextual learning and memory. People affected by Down's Syndrome have a below average cognitive ability, and those who reach middle age show start showing Alzheimer's-like dementia by the time they are 50 or 60. William C. Mobley, chair...

Pujols helps launch Down syndrome center in Chesterfield: PHOTO
With the help of Albert Pujols, adults can now get services that kids get.

Death of disabled man at Krol center remains a mystery
IT WAS after midnight in mid-April, and Greg Harlen would not stop screaming in his room at the Cardinal Krol Center. Harlen, 52, a resident of the Philadelphia Archdiocese-run home for mentally handicapped men, was lying in his bed, writhing in pain. Both of his hips had been shattered. Later that morning, staffers decided to call 9-1-1. Harlen, who had Down Syndrome, was taken to Springfield Hospital - nearly 20 hours after he is believed to have suffered a mysterious trauma that broke his...

Howard K. Stern Settles Rita Cosby Lawsuit: PHOTO
Howard K. Stern's list of legal issues just got (slightly) shorter. The lawyer and former Anna Nicole Smith "companion" has settled the $60 million Defamation lawsuit he had filed against former MSNBC anchor Rita Cosby. Picture of Howard K. Stern Settles Rita Cosby Lawsuit [source:TheHollywoodGossip.com] A petition for dismissal was filed on Friday, Stern attorney Steve Sadow confirms, but did not comment further "pursuant to the terms of the settlement." Stern was seeking that massive sum...

ADL to Supreme Court: uphold anti-terror law
November 24, 2009 WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The Anti-Defamation League is urging the Supreme Court to uphold an anti-terrorism law prohibiting material support or resources to foreign terrorist organizations. The ADL submitted an amicus brief to the Court in Holder, et al. v. Humanitarian Law Project, et al. which argues that all activities of terrorist organizations are inextricably linked, and thus a prohibition on material support of such organizations in constitutional. An appeals Court has ruled...

ADL to high court: Uphold anti-terrorism law
The Anti-Defamation League is urging the Supreme Court to uphold an anti-terrorism law prohibiting material…

Woman suing Casey Anthony for defamation wants trial date: PHOTO
The civil attorneys for the woman suing Casey Anthony for Defamation is asking a judge to set a trial date soon, according to notice filed today in court. Zenaida Gonzalez, a Kissimmee mother of six, accuses Anthony, 23, of damaging her reputation. Anthony told investigators that she left her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, in mid-June 2008 with a nanny named Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez. When she returned later that day, the two had vanished. Detectives tried to find the nanny and questioned and...

Howard K. Stern Settles Rita Cosby Lawsuit: PHOTO
Howard K. Stern's list of legal issues just got (slightly) shorter. The lawyer and former Anna Nicole Smith "companion" has settled the $60 million Defamation lawsuit he had filed against former MSNBC anchor Rita Cosby. A petition for dismissal was filed on Friday, Stern attorney Steve Sadow confirms, but did not comment further "pursuant to the terms of the settlement." Stern was seeking that massive sum after certain allegations were amde in Cosby's Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind...

LEANN AND EDDIE GET COZY AT KUSHIYU: PHOTO
Despite endless tabloid reports of Infidelity, LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian are still on and hotter than ever. The controversial lovebirds stepped out in Tarzana, CA this afternoon (November 23) for a romantic lunch at Kushiyu sushi restaurant. After feasting on sushi, sashimi and sake, LeAnn and Eddie left the eatery together only to quickly part ways upon spotting the Paparazzi. Meanwhile, Eddie is suing Life & Style Weekly for Defamation over a recent story claiming he was cheating on...

Jack Straw to look at changing 'unbalanced' libel laws
Jack Straw says radical change is needed to protect fair comment Proposals to shake up the Libel laws in England and Wales are being drawn up by the Government. There has been growing concern at the rise of "no-win, no-fee" cases in the courts threatening Freedom of Speech. The Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, said the system had become unbalanced and radical change was needed. He said large fees for Defamation lawyers were encouraging so-called Libel tourists from abroad to bring cases...

The Senate on Friday confirmed David Huebner to become ambassador of New Zealand and Samoa, becoming the third Openly Gay man in U.S. history to assume an ambassador post. Huebner, the general counsel for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, was nominated last month, with an announcement that coincided with the National Equality March and President Barack Obama's speech before the Human Rights Campaign's national dinner. He...

Howard K. Stern settles defamation case: PHOTO
Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-turned-lover Howard K. Stern has settled a Defamation suit over a steamy tell-all book about the late star. Earlier this year, Stern filed a US$60 million case against the Hachette Book Group and TV reporter-turned-writer Rita Cosby, accusing them of Libel over a string of accusations made against him in Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death . The tome about the late model makes a series of claims about Stern's sexuality, alleging Smith...

Photog: MJ-Obsessed Attackers Waited for Me
The photographer who says he was attacked by angry Michael Jackson fans is finally telling his side of the story -- claiming his attackers were "laying in wait." The photog, Ed Frommer , claims he was "jabbed" with a baseball bat several times by three MJ fans over a Defamation lawsuit he filed against Debbie Rowe. The lawsuit stems from an encounter between Frommer and Rowe that went down in front of a Chinese food restaurant back in July. As we first reported, Frommer claims three men pulled...

Anwar wins against NST but won't get RM100m
By Debra Chong Kuala Lumpur, Nov 25

Video: Adam Lambert Performs on CBS' 'The Early Show'
CBS got slammed by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation for blurring Adam Lambert's kissing scene but not editing Madonna and Britney Spears locking lips.