Glutter

Yahoo Case Moves to Discovery Phase

"Our lawsuit against Yahoo, filed in April 2007, has now advanced to the discovery phase after the District Court for the Northern District of California granted our motion to begin initial and jurisdictional discovery. The court's order comes after Yahoo attempted to delay initial and jurisdictional discovery by asking the court to bifurcate proceedings, which would have meant that the court would have to delay addressing the merits of the case. Human Rights USA successfully challenged Yahoo's attempts to split up proceedings into multiple parts.

Human Rights USA filed suit against Yahoo in April for its complicity in handing over identifying internet user information to Chinese authorities, leading to the arbitrary arrest, long-term detention, abuse, and torture of Chinese journalists and human rights and pro-democracy advocates. Two of the plaintiffs -- Wang Xiaoning and Shi Tao -- have been arrested and imprisoned in China for having expressed their right to free speech as a result of Yahoo's actions." http://www.humanrightsusa.org

Global Online Freedom Act has been passed by the house committee and will go to the floor of either the senate or congress to be voted on so it can be passed into legislation. The case against Yahoo brought by the family of Shi Tao will start in the next week. Did a short interview with BBC UK this morning...

It's 3 something am over here in LA, and I am having fantasies of calling up the World Organization for Human Rights and see if they need someone to help on the case. I have been having thoughts about that for months now, but I couldn't move to Northern California before, but now, I think maybe I should try. It would be really good for my resume if I ever did apply to law school, and it would be what I am interested in -in the first place. I helped on the first press releases on the Shi Tao case, and it blew me away when it hit the front pages. I have been watching it since the beginning, it would be so good to be able to partake in it on a legal basis. But it's just a little fantasy right now, I don't even know if I will write to them or if the organization need any help.

I am going to bed and thinking more about it tomorrow.