President Obama has nominated Assistant US Attorney Wendy Jo Olson to replace Tom Moss as the US Attorney for the District of Idaho.

Here is the questionnaire Olson submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee which will consider whether or not to confirm her to the position.   (more…)

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As promised, here is Judge Mitchell’s decision on the defendants’ motion for summary judgment in the lawsuit against NIC and its Foundation.  Because of the size of the file, I had to scan it in two parts:  Part 1 and Part 2.

Some of you may have seen Maureen Dolan’s article headlined NIC:  Judge dismisses lawsuit in this morning’s Coeur d’Alene Press. Larry Spencer, Tom Macy, and I are the plaintiffs in this lawsuit filed October 27, 2009.  Although the Court obviously provided the ruling to the defendants, we were not notified about the judgment nor have we yet received a copy of the judge’s ruling.  We learned about the decision the same way most others did,  the newspaper article.  Neither were Larry, Tom, nor I contacted for comment before the Press ran the story.

When and if we receive the judge’s ruling in writing, I will scan and post it in its entirety on OpenCdA.com.  We can’t comment until we know what the judge said.

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KREM TV Channel 2 reporter John Langeler’s first story about Jim Brannon’s lawsuit contesting the November 3, 2009, Coeur d’Alene City election left many voters with more questions than answers.  The lawsuit is still in First District Court Judge Benjamin Simpson’s courtroom.  In spite of ongoing efforts by the City of Coeur d’Alene, Kootenai County Clerk Dan English, and Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh to obstruct Brannon’s and his attorney’s access to evidence, critical information is beginning to ooze out through the cracks in the city and county’s rapidly deteriorating armor.   (more…)