Blog Posts in 2012
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Posted on Dec 30, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
The right to hold government accountable and to obtain unclassified information to keep it in check is fundamental to a healthy democracy. If Watergate taught us anything, it was that elected ...
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Posted on Dec 28, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
A new law set to take effect the first day of the new year -- the Workplace Religious Freedom Act -- makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an employee on the basis of religious ...
Continue reading "New Law: Diverstiy In, Assimilation Out" »
Posted on Dec 27, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Gary Trudeau decided to use his Doonesbury comic strip to mock Christians over the Christmas holiday by summarizing the leftist and atheist position against the display of Nativity scenes on public ...
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Posted on Dec 19, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
A 32-year-old Iranian who is a U.S. citizen and a Christian convert has been imprisoned without notice of any formal charges while visiting his family in Iran, according to his wife and attorneys in ...
Continue reading "Christian Persecution" »
Posted on Dec 18, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
On Sunday, December 9, 2012, the Santa Monica Nativity Scene Committee launched its 60th year of displaying its scenes in Santa Monica. Unfortunately, they are being displayed on private property for ...
Continue reading "Merry CHRISTmas in Clover Park, Santa Monica" »
Posted on Dec 8, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
A senior fellow for the American Civil Rights Union and a columnist for The Washington Times quotes me today in his opinion piece appearing in that newspaper. You can read it here.
Continue reading "Free Speech vs. Sound of Silence" »
Posted on Dec 8, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Two days ago, the Drudge Report headline linked to a Los Angeles Daily News story relating that the property management company for a senior living home in Newhall, California, north of Los Angeles, ...
Continue reading "Newhall Seniors Allowed to Put up Christmas Tree" »
Posted on Dec 6, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
One day after publishing my views on the Santa Monica Nativity scene controversy in The Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times again rejected a separate op-ed piece I had offered it for publication. ...
Continue reading "LA Times Turns Down Op-Ed: Too Hard To Follow!" »
Posted on Dec 5, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
My op-ed piece appears in today's print edition of the Washington Times newspaper: In Santa Monica, Calif., city leaders earlier this year pulled the plug on a 59-year-old community celebration of ...
Continue reading "My Washington Times Op-Ed Piece on the Nativity Case" »
Posted on Dec 4, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
The LA Times did yet another story today on the Nativity decision, reporting that my client found an alternative location on private property. Here an excerpt: William J. Becker Jr., an attorney for ...
Continue reading "In the News: The Nativity Case" »
Posted on Nov 30, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Matt Brown of the Deseret News wrote an excellent piece on the Nativity loss yesterday: After more than a half century, Santa Monica Nativity display at Palisades Park is no more. Click here to read ...
Continue reading "Nativity Case: A Good Summary of the Issue" »
Posted on Nov 29, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
As we predicted, United States District Court Judge Audrey B. Collins has dismissed the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes case. Her order arrived moments ago. Additionally, Judge Collins has vacated the ...
Continue reading "Judge Orders Nativity Case DISMISSED!" »
Posted on Nov 29, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
My friend and colleague Rob Muise of the American Freedom Law Center posted news of his victory in a Nativity scene case out of Michigan. See Sixty-Year Christmas Tradition Restored: Nativity Scene to ...
Continue reading "AFLC Scores a Michigan Nativity Scene Victory" »
Posted on Nov 28, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
On Monday (December 3, 2012), we will be back in U.S. District Court opposing the City of Santa Monica's Motion to Dismiss the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes lawsuit. A copy of our opposition to the ...
Continue reading "Nativity Scenes: Case Dismissed?" »
Posted on Nov 21, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
The American Thinker features my lamentation on the end of conservatism, from People's Park to Palisades Park, in the wake of the court's decison rejecting the right of the Santa Monica ...
Continue reading "The American Thinker: From People's Park to Palisades Park" »
Posted on Nov 20, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins denied the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction. It means that for the first time in 60 years, the Nativity ...
Continue reading "In the News:The City that Hates Free Speech and Religious Freedom" »
Posted on Nov 7, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
My colleague Rob Muise posted this today: “These Are the Times that Try Men’s Souls” Dear Fellow American, Yesterday was a disappointment to all freedom-loving Americans as our ...
Continue reading "Commentary: Forward ... with God's Help" »
Posted on Nov 3, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
The press loves to beat up on intelligent design, so it is no surprise that Judge Hiroshige's tentative decision in David Coppedge's case favoring Jet Propulsion Laboratory is receving wide ...
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Posted on Nov 2, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Fox News and other media outlets are reporting today that the judge in our case, David Coppedge vs. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has issued a tentative decision finding for JPL. We will not comment on ...
Continue reading "Even Fox News Gets It Wrong Sometimes" »
Posted on Oct 25, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
Recently, I downloaded a film called "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," hoping to relax over a story of British elderly visiting India. What I got instead was a lecture on tolerance for ...
Continue reading "The Movie Industry's Sexual Obsession" »
Posted on Oct 24, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
At least one LA Times reader gets it: A federal judge ruled that a cross' presence on federal land conveyed an endorsement of religion. Left unsaid is just how such a feeling by some is equivalent ...
Continue reading "Is The Mojave Desert Cross Forcing You To Go To Church?" »
Posted on Oct 23, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
This from the Los Angeles Times Op-Ed pages 10-23-2012: Liberals should accept the display of biblical banners at a Texas high school; it jibes with their love of free speech. But conservatives need ...
Continue reading "Cheering for Jesus" »
Posted on Oct 22, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
In a feature article on the front page left column of today's Los Angeles Times (10-22-2012), writer Thomas Curwen documents the history of a federal lawsuit that led to the removal of a veterans ...
Continue reading "The Desert Cross Case's Hidden Meaning" »
Posted on Oct 18, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
While writing my last commentary touching on the atheist's absolutist interpretation of Thomas Jefferson's metaphor explaining the legislative intent behind the meaning of the First ...
Continue reading "The Jefferson (& Barton) Lies" »
Posted on Oct 16, 2012 By Becker Law Firm CMS
"All in all it's just another brick in the wall." – Pink Floyd * * * The topic refers, of course, to the "wall of separation between church and state" – not to the ...
Continue reading "The Wall (and the Atheists of Palisades Park)" »
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