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A lawsuit challenging Michigan's law restricting funeral protests was filed Wednesday on behalf of a couple who were pulled over and arrested during a procession for a friend killed in Iraq because their van bore signs critical of then-President George W. Bush.
A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.
Members of a fundamentalist Kansas church ordered to pay nearly $11 million in damages to a grieving father smiled as they walked out of the courtroom, vowing that the verdict would not deter them from protesting at military funerals.
Does the First Amendment Protect Highly Offensive Speech at a Funeral and Directed at the Deceased?FindLaw columnist and Columbia law professor Michael Dorf analyzes U.S. Supreme Court precedent to determine whether the Court would likely hold that the First Amendment allows protesters to disrupt funerals by picketing with placards bearing offensive messages.
Debate looms over funeral-picket lawsOne year ago, only Fred Phelps' home state of Kansas had passed a law specifically to stifle his graveside protests.
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