The End Of Reform

Filed Under (First Amendment) by webmaster on 31-10-2008

Mickle wrote that he believes Gall’s clients are “substantially likely to succeed in their claims” the law violates First Amendment guarantees of free speech. “Florida’s electioneering communications laws regulate virtually all

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Prop M: The Latest Battle in San Francisco's Rent Wars

Filed Under (First Amendment) by webmaster on 31-10-2008

Scott Weaver, an attorney representing almost 80 tenants who are suing the Citi Apartments property management company for harassment, said the measure does not violate the First Amendment. “Some landlords are hiding behind free speech

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Recent Developments Regarding Director Independence

Filed Under (First Amendment) by webmaster on 31-10-2008

[2] The first amendment modifies Section 303A.02(b)(ii) to increase from $100000 to $120000 the amount of direct compensation (other than director or committee fees and pension or other forms of deferred compensation for prior service),

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Effigy of Obama hanging.

Filed Under (First Amendment) by webmaster on 31-10-2008

So in California someone has a John McCain effigy on fire and a Sarah Palin effigy hanging, but yet that is ok b/c they are speaking their first amendment. But for some reason when an Obama effigy is hanging, the secret service and feds

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Colorado Media Matters: KCFR host failed to challenge Schaffer's

Filed Under (Freedom of Speech) by webmaster on 31-10-2008

Salt Lake Tribune, United States – On Monday, I tuned in to Michael Savage’s radio show and heard: “Under Pelosi, we’ll see Mussolini tactics in the media.” Taking away freedom of speech?

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The Audacity To Question: Big Brother Obama Is Gonna Get Ya

Filed Under (Free Speech) by webmaster on 30-10-2008

McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle

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Gigabyte Gamble of Global Giants

Filed Under (Free Speech) by webmaster on 30-10-2008

On the other hand this whole alliance on the Code of Conduct is also being used to preempt whatever regulatory oversight may be initiated by a likely Obama government, because of how they assisted the trampling of America’s civil rights

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E-Speech: The (Uncertain) Future of Free Expression

Filed Under (Free Speech) by webmaster on 30-10-2008

Although no one is slowing down or opening your posted letters, spying on your face-to-face conversations or restricting your physical ability to make music, all of these barriers to free speech—and more—are becoming increasingly

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Pray Like There's No Tomorrow: The 2008 Election

Filed Under (Free Speech) by webmaster on 30-10-2008

Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers and the Civil Rights movement came along, and it did make a difference in opportunity—-or did it? Now, people of all colors and races are met with what I shall call ‘The Real Bastards’ [please don’t

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Olympics campaign report – SF Team Tibet

Filed Under (Free Speech) by webmaster on 30-10-2008

SF is often remembered as a great city for promoting human values such as human rights and civil rights. Unbelievably, city officials considered suppressing the voices of dissent or restricting free speech along the torch.

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