Sutliffe v. Epping Sch. Dist., No. 08-2587

In plaintiffs' section 1983 suit against various town and school officials alleging that defendants advocated for approval of budgets and spending through various channels of communication media while denying plaintiffs access to the same communication channels, the district court's judgment is affirmed where: 1) district court correctly concluded that the three added plaintiffs in the amended complaint lacked standing as they could not show any actual or imminent injury; 2) district court did not err in dismissing plaintiffs' claims besides those pertaining to the town website and the 2006 annual report on res judicata grounds based on the earlier state court action; and 3) district court's grant of summary judgment to the defendants on plaintiffs' town website free speech claim is affirmed but on the ground that the claim fails because the town defendants' actions in setting up and controlling a town website and choosing not to allow certain hyperlinks constituted government speech.

Read Sutliffe v. Epping Sch. Dist., No. 08-2587

Appellate Information

On Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Decided September 17, 2009

Judges

Before: Lynch, Chief Judge, Torruella, and Ebel, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Lynch, Chief Judge

Counsel

For Appellant: Benjamin T. King and Charles G. Douglas, III, Douglas, Leonard & Garvey PC

For Appellee: John T. Alexander, Daniel J. Mullen and Ransmeier & Spellman, PC were on brief for Town appellees.

Diane M. Gorrow, Soule, Leslie, Kidder, Sayward & Loughman, P.L.L.C. was on brief for school appellees.

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Former NH state worker accused of theft, forgery (Boston Globe)

A former employee at the New Hampshire Department of Resource and Economic Development has been indicted on 14 counts of felony theft and nine counts of forgery.

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TC50 Demopit Company TweetFunnel Launches Enterprise-Friendly Twitter Publishing Platform

As more and more businesses dip their toes in the Twitter stream, there's a need for enterprise-focused Twitter applications that cater to businesses' needs from the microblogging platform. TechCrunch50 demopit company TweetFunnel is business-friendly publishing platform for Twitter.

The web-based application is both a Twitter client and a platform for businesses to manage all their Twitter accounts. TweetFunnel lets you aggregate and use multiple Twitter accounts, and also makes it easy for several employees to post to one Twitter account. Users can also schedule, monitor and assign posting of Tweets within the platform. And TweetFunnel offers Bit.ly link analytics within its platform.

TweetFunnel breaks down users into three different categories—administrators, publishers and contributors. The administrator has permissions to add users to the account and to review and publish tweets. Publishers also have the ability to review and publish tweets and contributors can add tweets to the review queue, but cannot publish tweets.

The platform is appealing and has a number of compelling features for businesses, including the ability to time and assign Tweets. Of course, TweetFunnel will face competition from the growing number of clients and services that provide variations of enterprise-friendly Twitter clients, including PeopleBrowsr, ViralHeat, and Socialseek.

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TechCrunch50 Conference 2009: September 14-15, 2009, San Francisco

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High court ready to rule on legality of tax caps (The Citizen of Laconia)

The state's highest court is set to rule on the legality of tax caps, possibly ending months of legal wrangling that has killed citizen petitions and jeopardized the spending limits in some Granite State communities.

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NH Supreme Court Cases, September 18, 2009

2008-456, DENNIS TULLEY & a. v. WILLIAM SHELDON & a.
2008-512, DANA DUXBURY-FOX v. EUGENE SHAKHNOVICH & a.
LD-2009-002, WYATT'S CASE

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New mediation program offered for NH cases (Boston Globe)

There's a new mediation program in the New Hampshire court system. It will give people a chance to resolve non-criminal disputes that would otherwise head to the state Supreme Court, New Hampshire's only appellate court.

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NHCourts on Twitter

Source: Judicial Branch Communications Office

The New Hampshire Judicial Branch is now posting up-to-date information about the courts on Twitter at http://twitter.com/nhcourts. The court system will use Twitter as a bulletin board on which the communications office will post notices that alert followers to breaking news and provide a website link for additional information when available. The communications office expects to post a range of information as soon as it is available, including links to Supreme Court opinions and other breaking news important to the public, such as notices about court closings due to weather or other circumstances.

http://nhlawlibrary.blogspot.com/2009/09/nhcourts-on-twitter.html

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US v. Burnett, No. 08-1224

Conviction of a defendant for conspiring to distribute illegal drugs and other drug-related charges is affirmed where: 1) the district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting testimony of a witness regarding defendant carrying a baggy, as it tended to make the evidence of the fact that defendant was involved in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine more probable than if the evidence had not been admitted; 2) the district court did not commit plain error in admitting witness testimony regarding threats by the defendant as its probative value was not substantially outweighed by danger of unfair prejudice. Considering the cumulative effect of the claimed evidentiary rulings, defendant received a fair trial and his arguments in his pro se brief were meritless for both procedural and substantive reasons.

Read US v. Burnett, No. 08-1224

Appellate Information

Appeal from the United State District Court for the District of New Hampshire
Decided September 1, 2009

Judges

Before Boudin, and Lipez, Circuit Judges, and Hansen, of the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.
Opinion by Hansen, Circuit Judge.

Counsel

For Appellants: Royston H. Delaney, Robert M. Thomas, Jr.

For Appellee: Aixa Maldonado-Quiñones, Thomas P. Colantuono, United States Attorney

http://feeds.findlaw.com/~r/FindLaw1st/~3/BnXMdcC3-YY/us-v-burnett-no-08-1224.html

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Supreme Court denies Breed appeal (Hampton Union)

CONCORD — The state Supreme Court has denied a request by former Massachusetts Coroner Dr. Putnam Breed to reconsider his appeal on convictions for signing cremation certificates without viewing bodies of the deceased at the Bayview Crematorium in...

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