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RAIN 0727 Weekly Update: Legal (12)



New Haven Register 7/16/02
P&W records destroyed
May be linked to probe into cancer deaths
Ann DeMatteo,
The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating a complaint that Pratt & Whitney Aircraft destroyed medical records two years ago, after questions arose about a possible link between brain cancer and working conditions at the jet-engine maker.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4749014&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7576&rfi=8


New Haven Register 7/26/02
P&W cited for destroying records
Ann DeMatteo,
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Pratt & Whitney Aircraft for destroying medical records two years ago.
The details of the citation were not revealed Thursday, but a Pratt spokesman acknowledged that OSHA characterized the violation as "serious."
The machinists' union brought the complaint to OSHA's attention June 27 after an
employee not connected to an ongoing brain cancer study asked for some of his
records.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4859401&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7572&rfi=6


Lexington Herald-Leader 7/21/02
U of L foundation must give names
Judge: Entity is public, and subject to open records law
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/3704865.htm


St. Petersburg Times 7/23/02
Editorial: A chill in the library
Under the USA-Patriot Act, passed by Congress in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, librarians have been made unwitting partners in the FBI's search for potential terrorists. Any records a library might retain on a patron's reading choices or
Internet use are now retrievable by federal law enforcement with an easily obtainable court order. Librarians, traditionally defenders of intellectual freedom, are being pressed to become extensions of law enforcement, and many are balking at the new job description.
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/23/Opinion/A_chill_in_the_librar.shtml



St. Petersburg Times 7/23/02
Heist of moon rocks unravels in Orlando
Three student employees of Johnson Space Center are charged in a plan to sell $1-million worth of samples.
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/23/State/Heist_of_moon_rocks_u.shtml

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/space/1503835


Billings Gazette 7/24/02
Judge again tells state to produce bison documents
By JENNIFER McKEE
Gazette State Bureau
HELENA - After a court hearing that left the judge visibly exasperated, Judge Thomas Honzel ruled Tuesday the state Department of Livestock didn't break an agreement to give department documents to a trio of environmental groups - although the groups argued they still haven't seen some of them.
Honzel further ordered the department to give the groups all the documents they want in the next 10 days.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2002/07/24/build/local/90-bison.inc


Houston Chronicle 7/24/02
District clerk faces more legal trouble
Associated Press
A year after being indicted on state charges of stealing $44,000 from her office, Hidalgo County District Clerk Pauline Gonzalez faces federal charges accusing her of changing the date on court documents and claiming they had been lost.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/metropolitan/1506119


Lexington Herald-Leader 7/24/02
4 KSP officers misused e-mail, documents say
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/3722999.htm


The Canberra Times 7/25/02
Accounts 'altered' by boss at One.Tel
By AAP
SYDNEY: One.Tel financial director Mark Silbermann altered the company's financial
records to meet requirements of a banking covenant, the liquidator's inquiry into the
telecommunications company's collapse heard yesterday.
http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=...ional&category=business&story_id=166794&y=2002&m=7


Department of Justice 7/25/02
Press Release
CHIEF ENGINEER OF TOYOTA CAR CARRIER SHIP
PLEADS GUILTY TO FALSIFIED OIL DISPOSAL RECORDS
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2002/July/02_enrd_431.htm


Government Technology 7/26/02
ACLU Files Suit Over the DMCA
Justin Pope - AP Business Writer - Jul 26, 2002 -- BOSTON (AP) -- Ben Edelman, fresh
out of Harvard, has spent much of his young programming career pressing software
companies that make Internet filters for schools and public libraries to reveal how their products work.
He worries some programs harm the free speech rights of users by blocking too many
sites that aren't really violent or pornographic. But some software companies say
revealing such information would amount to giving up a trade secret.
http://www.govtech.net/news/news.phtml?docid=2002.07.26-3030000000017211





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va