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A nurse who authorities say got his kicks by visiting Internet suicide chat rooms and encouraging depressed people to kill themselves is under investigation in at least two deaths and could face criminal charges that could test the limits of the First Amendment.
A nurse who authorities say got his kicks by visiting Internet suicide chat rooms and encouraging depressed people to kill themselves is under investigation in at least two deaths and could face criminal charges that could test the limits of the First Amendment.
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Barring an instrumental performance of a Christian hymn at a high school graduation did not violate students' First Amendment rights and was within the school superintendent's discretion, a divided federal appeals panel ruled Tuesday.
Flickr isn’t talking about the “Jokerized” image of President Obama it yanked from its site, and it doesn’t want its users to talk about it either. Turns out, this photo-sharing “community” is more of a business than its customers like to believe.
A Muslim woman on Wednesday sued a Michigan judge for telling her to remove her headscarf in his courtroom, claiming he violated her First Amendment right to practice her religion.
West Point officials who ordered anti-war demonstrators out of an Army-Navy basketball game did not violate their First Amendment rights, a federal jury decided Wednesday.
They call it Speakers' Circle, a First Amendment gathering spot at the University of Missouri where just about anything goes.
A federal judge ruled that a public high school history teacher violated the First Amendment when he called creationism "superstitious nonsense" during a classroom lecture.
In a courtroom just a block from Independence Hall — the heart of the city's tourist district and the birthplace of the Constitution — a federal judge is weighing whether an ordinance to test and license local tour guides violates the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court said Monday it will explore a dark corner of Americans' fascination with animals, whether the sale of videos depicting dog fights and violent deaths of small animals is protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech.
- After an unusually spirited discussion concerning freedom of speech at election time — one that even raised the prospect of banning books —the U.S. Supreme Court seemed prepared Tuesday to rule in favor of the conservative backers of an anti-Hillary Clinton movie, possibly by creating an exception to the laws governing campaign ads.
Perhaps the 74-foot-high engraving of the First Amendment just wasn't big enough.
Avery Doninger has put off going to college so she can volunteer with AmeriCorps — at least when she’s not in court.
Ken Paulson, editor of USA Today and a veteran First Amendment advocate, is leaving the nation's top-selling newspaper in February to take the No. 2 position at an organization devoted to free speech.
A Pittsburgh suburb will allow a pole dancing studio to open, ending a federal lawsuit that accused the town of violating the owner's First Amendment rights.
Barney Rosset, the publisher and First Amendment defender whose battles on behalf of Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" and other explicit works helped overturn U.S. censorship laws, has won an honorary National Book Award for "Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community."
A lawyer for a man once considered one of the world's most prolific e-mail spammers urged the Virginia Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down a state anti-spam law, arguing it violates free speech protections under the First Amendment.
A former USA Today reporter facing fines for failing to reveal her sources for stories about the 2001 anthrax attacks said Saturday that news organizations need to go on the offensive in the fight to protect the First Amendment.
A federal judge ordered a public school system Tuesday to stop allowing in-school Bible giveaways, saying the practice violates the First Amendment separation of church and state.
WASHINGTON - Next Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that will decide how tightly Congress can regulate candidates and campaigns.
A mangled and twisted metal tower that once broadcast radio and television signals to New York City from the top of the World Trade Center has a new home at the Newseum, Washington's monument to press freedom and other protections of the First Amendment.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which staged a fake news conference, was among the "winners" Tuesday of the 2008 Jefferson Muzzle Awards, given by a free-speech group for egregious First Amendment violations.
The National Park Service violated an anti-war group's First Amendment rights by excluding them from major parts of President Bush's 2005 inaugural parade route, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Driver Forces Passengers To Pray On MARTA BusA MARTA bus driver is on suspension following allegations that he forced passengers to pray before allowing them to exit the bus.
Freshwater Update: Day 21-- on School PolicyThis was the last of three October hearing sessions. The next sessions are scheduled for November 17-19.
Antonin Scalia: Judicial Activist and Constitutional RelativistIn oral arguments this month in the case of Salazar v. Buono, which concerns the constitutionality of a 5-foot cross on federal government land in the Mojave National Preserve, Justice Antonin Scalia suggested that the cross is a universal, rather than a Christian, symbol.
Judge OKs Challenge to Patents on Human GenesA federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. More Articles
Freshwater Update: Day 20-- The 'Pro-Freshwater' FactionTerri Mahan testified earlier in the hearing when the Board was putting on its case in chief. Hamilton elected not to cross examine at that time because he would call her now.
Freshwater Update: Day 19 - Dave Daubenmire's AnticsThe main burden of Daubenmire's testimony was that he took responsibility for having organized the April 16, 2008, public demonstration in Mt. Vernon to bring attention to the Freshwater situation.
Geanne Rosenberg: Protections for journalists shouldn't just apply to the ones collecting paychecksIn a widely reported controversy, Illinois prosecutors responded to a Protess-led, university-based journalistic investigation of a 31-year-old murder conviction with subpoenas seeking "virtually every conceivable record" relating to the school's newsgathering activities, i …
U.S. resists anti-defamation resolutionThe Obama administration on Monday came out strongly against efforts by Islamic nations to bar the defamation of religions, saying the moves would restrict free speech.
Under Attack, Credit Raters Turn to the First AmendmentFor two decades, the nation's top credit rating agencies have managed to fend off a crackdown from Washington by relying on a surprising ally - the First Amendment.
Say what you want, hate-crimes bill protects free speechOnce [the new Hate Crimes legislation] becomes law, the Department of Justice will have broader authority to investigate and prosecute violent crimes "motivated by prejudice based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gen …
Faith-Based DiscriminationPresident Obama promised in his campaign to preserve President George W. Bush's faith-based initiative aimed at helping social service programs sponsored by religious organizations win federal grants and contracts.
Ohio Ten Commandments Judge Loses AgainJudge DeWeese tried to pretend that he had a secular purpose in putting up the display:My purpose in creating and displaying this poster was to express my views about two warring legal philosophies that motivate behavior and the consequences that I have personally witnessed in my …
Battening Down the Hatches: Secret State Monitors Protest, Represses Dissent"Anyone can tweet, but the truth is, sometimes speech can be criminal," John Burkoff, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, told The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Hannity ratchets up the gay-bashing in his fruitless pursuit of Kevin Jenningsexcerpt: ""Sean Hannity's desperation in his dire quest to keep up with Glenn Beck by getting a White House scalp in the form of safe-schools advocate Kevin Jennings has now gone from simply fabricating stories out of distorted evidence to outright gay-bashing
Rights activists see double standard in Twitter arrestNEW YORK (Reuters) - The arrest of a New Yorker for using Twitter to alert protesters to police movements at a meeting of world leaders in Pittsburgh last month would be deemed a human rights violation if it happened in Iran or China, rights activists charge.
FTC Wrong to Regulate Deceitful Bloggersdenounce deceitful bloggers - don't let the government fine them
'Gossip Girl' among top 10 books eyed for banAt a Banned Books Week event, the "Gossip Girl" series and "The Kite Runner" joined the ranks of "The Grapes of Wrath," "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "Slaughterhouse Five" - books that have been singled out and challenged as inappropriate over the years.
Oregon State Administration Engages in Blatant CensorshipOregon state administration officials have confiscated and dumped an independent student newspaper's distribution bins and tried to play it off as "campus beautification". None of the more established, left of center "official" newspaper's bins were molested.
Ohio Supreme Court: Freshwater Can't Force Board Members to TestifyThe Ohio Supreme Court ruled this morning that members of the Mount Vernon school board don't have to testify in the termination hearing of John Freshwater, the eighth-grade teacher accused of teaching religion in science class and burning students with a laboratory device.
Freshwater Update-- "Symbolism" and NonsenseThursday of last week, the 17th, Hamilton and Freshwater were interviewed on a radio program hosted by David Barton, notorious revisionist pseudo-historian who is in the process of polluting social studies standards in Texas.
So what is brewing in congress that I haven't seen in the mainstream media? There is a full court press to put a gag order on Humana and other health care providers from speaking about issues concerning the government plan by Sen Baucus, et al.
Supreme Court To Hear Case on Hunting & Fishing VideosIn this News Brief from the Professional Outdoor Media Association, they explain why this upcoming Supreme Court case is so important to outdoor and sports journalism.
One of the most important First Amendment cases to go to the U.S. Supreme Court in the last 100 yearsOver the years, I have written about many court battles. Bill Benson's has been going on for many years and now is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. For those not familiar with his case, it is about the First Amendment. It is about YOUR First Amendment rights.
Supreme Court to weigh depictions of animal crueltyI'm all for free speech... I don't care if I like what you have to say, you have your rights as I have mine, however, I don't think this should even be an issue... animal cruelty is illegal, so selling videos of it should be as well.
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