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Buried News

By now y'all know about my aversion to linking to NY Times articles, in lieu of their overly-intrusive registration process. But I'm going to hope you can still read this one, about a Manhattan federal judge delivering a fairly stinging rebuke to the NYPD "for the way demonstrators against the war in Iraq were interrogated earlier this year" and suggesting "that civil liberties lawyers could seek to hold the city in contempt of court in the future if the police violate people's rights." I thought it was a fairly big story, but it's not available via Google. It took me a few tries, but I finally managed a decent Google search on the subject by typing in the words "judge Haight" and clicking on "and more" underneath the only four stories (none of them NYT, two of them from Newsday) to which Google bothered to link. (And just in case this turns out to be a NYCBloggers/RNN question: Yes, I'm in favor of the decision, although I don't think it went far enough; as the article says, "Judge Haight did not impose new restrictions on the police in the wake of the interrogations, which first came to light after the New York Civil Liberties Union received complaints from protesters. Nor did the judge decide the issue of whether the interrogations violated the protesters' constitutional rights." I might have thought he could at least have ruled on the latter.)