The phrase
"First Amendment" refers to the first addition or change made to the Constitution of the United States. It guarantees important freedoms, such as the freedom of speech, religion, the press, the right to peacefully assemble, and the right to petition the government for change.
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Despite that ruling, many students and adults continue to struggle in order to ensure students have
First Amendment rights in schools today.
And campaign finance reform isn't likely because neither party would support meaningful change and are generally protected
on first amendment grounds.
The state fails to address the most critical
First Amendment issue, that of whether the regulations on nude dancing are content - based or content neutral.
He has handled criminal appeals,
first amendment cases, employment disputes, art law cases, celebrity disputes, bankruptcy matters and prisoner rights litigation as well.
This has been a widely watched case among ethics attorneys like myself that follow the bouncing ball of state bar advertising restrictions and
first amendment scholars looking at the «free speech» argument.
And, taking into account not only
First Amendment rights but an artist's traditional role of challenging the status quo, is there a point beyond which art can go too far?
Unfortunately, the United States Supreme Court has not revisited this area [
of First Amendment rights of public school students] for fifteen years.
Misleading policymakers does not necessarily mean the person is dishonest, just misinformed or uninformed, but that is protected
under first amendment rights.
In its motion to quash, EFF argues that the plaintiff's overbroad subpoena seeking to identify the site's operator and users violates
First Amendment protections for anonymous speech and association.
You could probably fit something like that under some of the broader statutes — although they still for the most part haven't been tested
for First Amendment issues.
(They who have benefitted from the U.S.»
First Amendment as nationally - known pastors / writers / authors / speakers / bloggers should be the last ones to be telling anybody else to be quiet.
«It's strange that kids that text message and carry iPods and BlackBerrys in their left hand carry in their right hands these heavy tomes called law school books,» said Ronald K.L. Collins, one of the event's organizers and a scholar at the nonprofit
First Amendment Center in Washington, D.C. «The left hand is the future and the right hand is the past.»
Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of
First Amendment Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.
Carter quietly tossed the charges on Monday, but not without making it clear he believed he was right in his stance versus Albany County District Attorney David Soares, who argued the defendants were simply
exercising First Amendment rights.
First Amendment School Hudson High School in Hudson, Massachusetts, also formed a new student governance program that involves students in school - wide decisions, said teacher Josh Otlin, who is involved in the program.
But when the standard of review for
First Amendment claims varies between courts and administrative agencies, constitutional protections become vulnerable to inconsistencies.
The exhibition Natural Plain will be on view
at First Amendment Gallery in San Francisco from September 28th until October 26th, 2017.
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As a media and
First Amendment lawyer with a national practice, Rob offers counseling and litigation services to clients throughout the United States including magazines, newspapers, book publishers, broadcasters, website operators, bloggers, filmmakers, and advertising and public relations agencies.
The Supreme Court of the United States has developed the «public figure» doctrine as a way to balance defamation harms
against First Amendment free speech rights.
Most legal commentators have since argued that this decision is more than likely to be reversed on appeal, primarily in light of the religious underpinnings of the judge's decision, which raise
First Amendment concerns (according to the New York Times, the American Civil Liberties Union has offered to appeal the ruling on behalf of the child's mother).
HCM 2002 Urges Supreme Court to modify its rules related to the State Bar of Arizona to ensure the protection of
First Amendment freedoms.
Knowing the heat the Corcoran had faced for «The Perfect Moment,» Barrie preemptively enlisted lawyer H. Louis Sirkin, who specializes in
First Amendment defense cases.
Just a note that I just heard from two nationally known
First Amendment attorneys in the U.S. and told them that nationally known pastor Brian McLaren plans to sue his buddy (pastor) Tony Jones» ex-wife Julie.
In the course of this matter, we have developed
First Amendment arguments regarding the Constitutional principal that civil courts can not delve into the religious thicket of internal church governance and that the courts must adhere to express trust language in a church's governing documents.
The overbreadth doctrine, as we have recognized, is indeed «strong medicine,» Broadrick v. Oklahoma, 413 U.S. at 413 U. S. 613, and requiring that statutes be facially invalidated whenever overbreadth is perceived would very likely invite reconsideration or redefinition of the doctrine in a way that would not serve
First Amendment interests.
Obtained dismissal on summary judgment of suit by disappointed bidder for City of Detroit cable TV franchise which claimed that
First Amendment required the grant of multiple franchises
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