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...victory for Twitter? Not entirely, says Stephen Shotnes, a media-law specialist with the London law firm Simons Muirhead & Burton. "It's been enshrined in our law for 300 years that there's freedom of reporting of parliamentary proceedings. I would like to think that what would have happened is that the Guardian would have trotted off to court today and the injunction would have been lifted anyway. The likely impact of Twitter was to speed up that process," he says. (Read "Brought to You by Twitter...
...British media-law expert Razi Mireskandari, whose firm Simon Muirhead & Burton has successfully defended the publication of sexually explicit photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe in the U.K., says Tate Modern would be unlikely to lose an obscenity case. The U.K.'s Obscene Publications Act defines as "obscene material" anything that would "tend to deprave and corrupt" the public. "That doesn't mean just 'upset or put off,' " says Mireskandari. But, he notes, the U.K.'s Protection of Children Act might come into play. "The key tests would be whether the child is posed provocatively, whether there was an element of lewdness...
...said.Even though the Houses boasted the presence of prominent faculty members, to students, the SCR remained largely unacknowledged. “When I was an undergraduate, the SCR had a mysterious quality. We didn’t know what it was about,” said J. Russell Muirhead ’88, who is a University of Texas at Austin professor and Eliot House SCR affiliate. But Muirhead alluded to the potential for occasional meaningful interaction in the SCR. As a senior, he recalled attending an SCR function in which he unintentionally sat next to the former Harvard...
...Nowadays it's much tougher to keep a lid on a juicy story as these events testify. Razi Mireskandari, a partner at the law firm Simons Muirhead & Burton and a specialist in media law, says he can imagine a scenario in which a gag order might become untenable because websites, wherever they are based, "are becoming freely accessible by nearly everybody. There could be an issue of trying to put your thumb in the dam, but it hasn't quite got to that stage yet." In the case of the anonymous royal embroiled in the alleged blackmail plot...
...course construction lagging in the U.S., the hottest trend in golf architecture is the restoration of classics built by greats like Donald Ross. "We've seen a shift from new construction to remodeling in the past five years, and I think it will continue to grow," says Greg Muirhead, senior designer at Rees Jones Inc., another leading firm...