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Boy Scouts of America National Council Blawg

Boy Scouts of America National Council Blawg
By Robert Bork

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Last Entry: May 03, 2010 at 16:44:00

Statement on today's Supreme Court decision

Posted on May 03, 2010
Message by BSALegal.org on 5/3/2010 EST Boy Scouts of America is grateful that the Supreme Court of the United States considered hearing an appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Barnes-Wallace v. Boy Scouts of America ...

Boy Scouts ask US Supreme Court to hear appeal

Posted on April 30, 2009
Message by BSALegal.org on 4/4/2009 EST Boy Scouts of America and San Diego-Imperial Council, Boy Scouts of America have filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court of the United States asking the Court to review the Ninth Circuit ...

Ninth Circuit sends San Diego Boy Scout case to Cal Supreme Court with "unprecedented" standing ruling

Posted on December 31, 2008
Message by BSALegal.org on 12/31/2008 EST Boy Scouts of America issued the following statement today: Boy Scouts of America and San Diego-Imperial Council, Boy Scouts of America are disappointed that the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth ...

Scouts pass key test in Philly lawsuit

Posted on September 27, 2008
Message by BSALegal.org on 9/27/2008 EST The Philadelphia Daily News reported today that the Cradle of Liberty Council's lawsuit against the City could move forward on First Amendment grounds. A federal judge threw out the City's assertions that, as ...

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U.S. Ninth Circuit issues order in San Diego appeal

Posted on June 11, 2008
Message by BSALegal.org on 6/11/2008 EST Boy Scouts of America and San Diego-Imperial Council, Boy Scouts of America note that the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Barnes-Wallace v. Boy Scouts of America has decided to certify ...

Boy Scouts sues City of Philadelphia

Posted on May 23, 2008
Message by BSALegal.org on 5/23/2008 EST The Cradle of Liberty Council of Boy Scouts of America today sued the City of Philadelphia to prevent the City from violating the Scouts' constitutional rights. The lawsuit can be downloaded by clicking her ...

Chicago Tribune: "Boy Scouts push for new relevance"

Posted on April 29, 2008
Message by BSALegal.org on 4/29/2008 EST The Chicago Tribune looks at the Boy Scouts of America in today's newspaper as the organization approaches its centenary in 2010: "Bruised by America's culture wars, battered by lawsuits alleging that ...

Washington Post features Eagles' achievement

Posted on January 22, 2008
Message by BSALegal.org on 1/22/2008 EST Nice to have a national newspaper like the Washington Post recognize the transformative power of Scouting. Read here. ...

Scouts ask California Supreme Court to protect Good Samaritans from lawsuits

Posted on January 10, 2008
Message by BSALegal.org on 1/10/2008 EST Boy Scouts of America submitted a friend of the court brief to the California Supreme Court in a case about the interpretation of that state's "Good Samaritan" statute. Van Horn v. Watson , No. S152360. The ...

Philly Boy Scouts help family who lost home in fire

Posted on December 27, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 12/27/2007 EST Fox 29 in Philadelphia reports on how Boy Scouts from the Cradle of Liberty Council helped a Philadelphia area family who lost their home in a fire. Interesting contrast: the family was displaced by a fire an ...

Op-ed: "The War on the Boy Scouts"

Posted on December 19, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 12/19/2007 EST Denver Post Columnist Al Knight writes today: Some topics are best left both out of sight and out of mind. The American Civil Liberties Union's war on the Boy Scouts is not one of them. The AC ...

Opinion: Philly Wrong about Scouts

Posted on December 07, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 12/7/2007 EST From today's Philadelphia Daily News , Christine M. Flowers writes that the city is wrong on the Scouts: CHILDREN are dying in the streets. Cops are targets. The murder toll is one a day. But City ...

What WAPO left out of its story on the Philly Scouts

Posted on November 21, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 11/21/2007 EST WAPO, aka The Washington Post , ran a story about the city of Philadelphia giving the Boy Scouts the virtual boot out of the headquarters it has occupied since 1928. "While we respect the right of t ...

More on the Cambridge kerfuffle

Posted on November 21, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 11/20/2007 EST The vice mayor of Cambridge, MA, weighs in at length today in the Boston Herald . While this is an extremely unfortunate event, it was caused by an apparent lack of communication and understanding r ...

Laura Ingraham features Cambridge incident on Fox News

Posted on November 18, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 11/18/2007 EST Cambridge dust up on Fox News Friday night. Laura Ingraham filling in for Bill O'Reilly interviewed a lawyer from Cambridge, although it was not clear what if any connection he had to the issue. ....

Cambridge stubs toe again over Scout donation boxes

Posted on November 17, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 11/17/2007 EST While the Boston Herald reported that Cambridge's vice mayor essentially apologized for the removal of Boy Scout collection boxes from polling places last week and blamed the incident on a breakdown in c ...

Paper: "Clueless in Cambridge"

Posted on November 16, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 11/16/2007 EST The Boston Herald reports , and its editors opine, about the Cambridge Boy Scouts whose efforts to collect donations for U.S. soldiers in Iraq were thwarted by the city's Election Commission. Cambridge's ...

Paper:"Cambridge boots Boy Scouts, calls support for soldiers 'pro-war'"

Posted on November 15, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 11/15/2007 EST The Cambridge (MA) Chronicle reported yesterday that a the local Election Commission removed Boy Scout donation boxes for US troops from polling places last week. Election officials ordered the r ...

Boy Scouts first to help, last to leave

Posted on October 27, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 10/27/2007 EST The last fire evacuees are leaving Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. Boy Scouts were there to help reports today's San Diego Union Tribune : Brian Miller was the last person out of the stadium and the only ...

To the rescue: "Who else? -- a couple of troops of Boy Scouts"

Posted on October 24, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 10/24/2007 EST News coverage of the fires in California is at once frightening and inspiring. There are a lot of stories of people helping people, but this being a Boy Scout website we are focused on these tidbits in the new ...

Scouts carry injured hiker 3 miles, honored as heroes

Posted on October 24, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 10/24/2007 EST The Associated Press reports that a Scout troop from the Cradle of Liberty Council came to the rescue of a hiker who had fallen and hit her head on the Appalachian Trail, building a stretcher from scratch and ...

Investor's Business Daily editorial on Philly fracas

Posted on October 20, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 10/20/2007 EST October 19, 2007--Political Correctness: The city of Philadelphia raises the nominal rent on a city building the Boy Scouts use because it says the group discriminates against gays. Is the City of Brothe ...

Philadephia hikes Boy Scouts' rent by $199,999

Posted on October 20, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 10/20/2007 EST The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Thursday, October 18, 2007: The Boy Scouts of America's refusal to bend its rules to permit gay scouts will cost the organization's local chapter $200,000 a year i ...

AP: 'God' Back on US Flag Documents

Posted on October 11, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 10/11/2007 EST By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON ? A 17-year-old Eagle Scout wanting to honor his grandfather's "love of God, country and family" with a flag flown over the U.S. Capitol has helped remove ...

Marine hero inspired Scouts to do their best

Posted on May 28, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 5/27/2007 EST Area Scouts honor Maj. Rick Gannon, who was killed in Iraq, and others on Memorial Day Published May 27, 2007, The Capital , Annapolis, Md. By E.B. FURGURSON III, Staff Writer Maj. Rick Gannon ...

BSA attorney discusses victory in Jamboree case

Posted on April 07, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 4/6/2007 EST BSALEGAL.org today interviewed George A. Davidson, BSA National Counsel, about the Seventh Circuit's ruling this week in the Jamboree case. Listen to the podcast by clicking on the podcast icon. ...

Court: 2010 Jamboree can go forward

Posted on April 06, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 4/4/2007 EST Irving, TX / April 4, 2007 ? Boy Scouts of America is pleased that the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dismissed the ACLU's lawsuit against the Department of Defense for supporting the ...

New Book: Legacy of Honor

Posted on March 01, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 2/26/2007 EST There is a great new book out called Legacy of Honor, The Values and Influence of America's Eagle Scouts . The common thread of all Eagle Scouts is "an abiding faith in an ideal called honor," says author Al ...

LA Times: "To stop gangs, call the Scouts"

Posted on January 26, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 1/26/2007 EST Heather McDonald , a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, recently published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times challenging the city's anti-gang program. Her solution: The understandable desire to elimin ...

Ninth Circuit asked to rehear Boy Scout appeal en banc

Posted on January 19, 2007
Message by BSALegal.org on 1/4/2007 EST Boy Scouts of America has asked the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to rehear its appeal in Barnes-Wallace v. Boy Scouts of America . On December 18, 2006, a three-judge panel of the Ni ...

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