Looks as if there’s something for everyone at today’s First Amendment Day event at UNC Chapel Hill. The schedule is here and includes reading from banned books, Noam Chomsky, and comments about the environment at UNC from the Foundation …
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When the request for information could violate customer privacy or First Amendment rights, we scrutinize it closely. We talk with the government about it, and if we still can’t feel comfortable…we’ll just ask a court to make that …
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The case is shaping up as a potentially important test of the First Amendment. “The difficulty in this case is that the speech occurs at the most personal and sensitive of times,” said Cliff Sloan, a First Amendment expert at the …
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Entertainment Merchants in which the issues is whether a state law restricting the sale of violent video games to minors violates the First Amendment right to free speech. The ScotUS Blog coverage of this case is here. …
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“We understand first amendment rights, we understand the laws and conditions and we can advocate that. That is not the same thing that happens in most of the world.” “As an Arab woman reporting in a society where journalism is just a …
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The case is shaping up as a potentially important test of the First Amendment to the Constitution, which among other freedoms the freedom to speak one’s mind in the United States. “The difficulty in this case is that the speech occurs …
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The UNC Loreleis, along with other campus a cappella groups will be singing banned and controversial songs in concert today as part of First Amendment Day being held at the University of Northern Carolina. …
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During the 2008 Election, Sarah Palin adopted a tragically common interpretation of the First Amendment, that her critics were violating her right to freedom of speech by criticizing her. The basic idea is that freedom of speech applies …
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Entertainment Merchants Association, the Justices will consider whether a California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors violates the First Amendment. In NASA v. Nelson, the court will weigh whether government workers …
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The document records several encounters between DEA officials and Israelis all over the United States. In one incident, the report documents an attempt to gain entry to the Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, where the AWACS spy plane and … The importance of individualized suspicion grows even more apparent in light of the First Amendment’s protections for freedom of association, freedom of speech, and free exercise of religion–all of which independently restrict …
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