Sentences with phrase «amendment protections of»

While I don't prescribe to the theory that you have no right to «offend» someone, I can say that the First Amendment protections of doing so are thinner.

The first misunderstanding of many people is that First Amendment protection of free speech, namely, that «Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press or of speech,» is absolute.

However, the First Amendment protection of free speech does not extend to children.

«We discussed the numerous scientific studies establishing that there is no connection between video games and violence, First Amendment protection of video games, and how our industry's rating system effectively helps parents make informed entertainment choices.»

A statement from the Electronic Software Association says «We discussed the numerous scientific studies establishing that there is no connection between video games and violence, First Amendment protection of video games, and how our industry's rating system effectively helps parents make informed entertainment choices.

Also discussed were «First Amendment protection of video games and how our industry's ratings system effectively helps parents makes informed entertainment choices,» the ESA said.

The Entertainment Software Association released a statement saying it had brought up «the numerous scientific studies establishing that there is no connection between video games and violence, First Amendment protection of video games, and how our industry's rating system effectively helps parents make informed entertainment choices.»

In a statement yesterday, the Entertainment Software Association said: «We discussed the numerous scientific studies establishing that there is no connection between video games and violence, First Amendment protection of video games, and how our industry's rating system effectively helps parents make informed entertainment choices.»

Not exact matches

However, it remains an open question whether it's ever illegal, given the First Amendment's protection of press freedom, for a reporter to solicit information.

(As the Fourteenth Amendment says, «nor shall any State... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.»)

Were these provisions to become law, they could result in some states, legislatively, providing one level of care or protection to some of their citizens and a different level to others — which, could violate the equal protection and fairness requirements of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

Hogan attorney David Houston called it «disgusting» that Gawker claimed speech protections under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

With the help of the Transgender Law Center and the civil rights law firm Relman, Dane & Colfax, Whitaker sued his school district, arguing that it was violating his rights under Title IX and the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

A number of analysts believed that Gawker stood a good chance of having the Hogan judgment either reversed or significantly reduced, especially since two higher - court judges had already ruled in previous decisions that the publication of an excerpt of Hulk Hogan's sex tape was newsworthy, and therefore covered by the protection of the First Amendment.

In the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case, the Supreme Court ruled 5 - 4 that the Second Amendment protects a person's right to own guns — at a federal level — and in 2010 the court said that protection applies at a local level as well.

Among other things, this incident became a flash point about the extent of First Amendment protections.

The provision therefore violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment right to due process, because it authorizes the Defense Department to afford preferential treatment on the basis of race and does not meet a «strict scrutiny» standard, the appeals court decided.

Deputy attorney general James Cole defended the bulk collection of Americans» phone records as outside the scope of the fourth amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.

«There is a great deal of enthusiasm in the marketplace for crowdfunding, and I believe these rules and proposed amendments provide smaller companies with innovative ways to raise capital and give investors the protections they need,» said SEC Chair Mary Jo White.

The Brown family sued, arguing that segregated schools deprived their daughter of equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Effective on June 16, 2015, the Corporate Governance Committee and the Board of Directors of the Company amended and restated the Code to, among other things, reflect the following amendments: (1) added a new Whistleblower Exception provision under the Confidentiality section; (2) modified the provision regarding Protection of Covered Persons to clarify that such protections apply to any Covered Person who provides information or makes other disclosures that are protected under whistleblower provisions; and (3) updated the policy reference to the Franklin Templeton Investments Social Media Guidelines Policy.

We require that these Outside Contractors agree to (1) protect the privacy of your personal information consistent with this Privacy Policy, or the Data Protection Amendment and (2) not use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other than providing us with the products or services for which we contracted or as required by law.

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In 2012, Liberal leader Raj Sherman introduced the Tobacco Reduction (Protection of Children in Vehicles) Amendment Act, which would have made it illegal for adults to smoke tobacco in vehicles with children.

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This shutdown of the website, along with Congress's amendment to Section 230, has brought the debate about eroding publisher protections to the forefront.

Constitutional Amendment 14 (this one specifically applies to Pan's Bill): ``... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.»

This doesn't mean the Amendment will necessarily be left out of future budget discussions, but it does eliminate one pathway of extending these protections to the pot industry.

Instead, Judge Roger Miner ruled that the prohibition violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause («No State shall... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the lawProtection Clause («No State shall... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the lawprotection of the laws»).

In Mugler v. Kansas, it declared that confiscating liquor without compensation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process because liquor was inherently «noxious» and therefore not subject to constitutional protection.

The seriousness of the problem is revealed by the fact that, although Trinity Lutheran has come before the Supreme Court as a free exercise and equal protection case, the Blaine Amendments most centrally collide with the Establishment Clause.

The administration, he said, «implicitly assumes that those who employ or help others of a different religion are no longer acting in a religious capacity, and as such are not entitled to the protection of the First Amendment.»

The NAACP's support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the fourteenth amendment of the United States constitution and equal protection of all people» said NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous, a strong backer of gay rights.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear Holt v. Hobbs, a landmark case cutting to the heart of the First Amendment's protection of religious freedom.

There is simply no legitimate argument that this doesn't violate the First Amendment's protection of freedom of religion.

«Amendment 14 addressed citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws — namely for former black slaves.

The 14th amendment extends such protections to all citizens, regardless of which state they live in.

«We're obviously hopeful that they'll be very empathetic to and supportive of religious liberty protections, that they'll be strong on the First Amendment, and we're going to wait and see what their appointments are,» said LoMaglio.

On 23 February, the United States Attorney General, Eric Holder, Jr., sent a letter to members of Congress in which he informed them that President Obama had determined that DOMA is in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and, as such, will no longer be defended by his administration.

While I don't object to a constitutional amendment that would extend special protection to unborn persons - especially since such an amendment would presumably lodge protection for the unborn beyond the discretion of partisan courts, and also dispose of any potential problems with respect to state action - such an amendment is constitutionally superfluous.

It was not until the great Civil War amendments that slavery was finally abolished and the promise of «equal protection of the laws» was made — a promise that has not yet been kept.

In the opinion for Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965, the majority cited the Fourteenth Amendment as a protection against a statute in Connecticut which banned the usage of contraception.

Broad in its application, the Fourteenth Amendment promised due process and «the equal protection of the laws» for all American citizens.

The most explicit statement of these limitations is in the Constitution's first ten amendments — the Bill of Rights — which guarantee freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition, the right to bear arms, protection against the obligatory quartering of soldiers, security from unwarranted search and seizure, the right to a grand jury, protection against double jeopardy and self - incrimination, the right of due process, just compensation for private property taken for public use, and speedy public trial by jury without excessive fines or bail.

In this sense they are more like books or magazines than television, and they are entitled to the same protection under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution accorded books and magazines.

The Amendment licensed no criminal prosecutions directed at gays or lesbians, and it withdrew from homosexuals no protections of the law.

Legislating your private religious moral values onto the rest of us violate our 1st Amendment protections.

Few issues are as important today as the protection of the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and the practice of religion.

The rational basis test is always applied first when a state or federal statute is challenged as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause.