Sentences with phrase «free speech rights»

No one is trying to take away free speech rights.

The right to freedom of expression goes beyond this negative freedom from interference, however, and includes the recognition of positive free speech rights.

Magistrate Judge Mark Martin, a veteran of the war in Iraq, ruled that Talag Elbayomy's sharia defense — what he claimed was his obligation to strike out against any insult against the prophet Mohammed — trumped the First Amendment free speech rights of the victim.

Reuters — A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a challenge to New York City anti-corruption campaign finance laws, finding the so - called «pay to play» rules do not violate free speech rights.

«Clackamas man exercises free speech rights by giving cops the finger»: This article appears today in The Oregonian.

For precisely the same reasons that I found your statement to be laughable, the government must insure that mechanisms are put in place to insure that the actual persons granted free speech rights by the Supreme Court (the owners of the corporations) are the ones actually exercising their new rights instead of having those rights stolen by fat - cat executives and self - appointed boards.

Under Tinker, therefore, the School District violated J.S.'s First Amendment free speech rights when it suspended her for creating the profile.

«Russia's own constitution is under assault as Putin cracks down on the rights of gays and lesbians, any NGO receiving non-Russian funding, and free speech rights for all Russians.»

Main Does Missouri abortion law infringe free speech rights?»

The November Team, a public relations firm is sounding an alarm concerning free speech rights in New York.

Frank was a staunch supporter of free speech rights under the First Amendment.

In its landmark decision Citizen United, the Court ruled that corporations have the same free speech rights as flesh and blood human beings.

The US Supreme Court decided in the past year that a corporation has the same free speech rights as an individual, so campaign contribution limits did not apply.

As the NLG blog says, «The jurors wisely chose to protect free speech rights and acquit.»

The Supreme Court came up with a hackneyed opinion in Citizens United that grants free speech rights to non-human beings.

Members of the small Jewish community of Whitefish, Mont., a resort town 60 miles south of the Canadian border, believe a line was crossed between free speech rights and credible threats of violence.

Supreme Court inflicts blow on credit card surcharge ban — State laws that block merchants from slapping surcharges on credit card users were dealt a blow by ruling that they affect free speech rights... (See Ban)

In an effort to protect patient and public safety while balancing free speech rights, the law established a 35 - foot zone in which no protests or demonstrations are permitted during health center operating hours.

This year's shareholder proposals filed or coordinated by NCPPR ask companies «to protect political free speech rights, but all those that have been challenged at the SEC have been omitted,» Proxy Preview elaborates.

The majority rejected the argument that minors have more restricted free speech rights than adults, observing, «No doubt a State possesses legitimate power to protect children from harm, but that does not include a free - floating power to restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed.»

Some just wanted to use their own free speech rights and try to shout down Milo Yiannopoulos outside.

The main finding of CU was that corporations and unions can assert free speech rights of natural persons.

(T) ERROR Directors Lyric R Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe embed themselves with an FBI informant, unbeknownst to the FBI, in order to examine the insidious ways anti-terrorism policing undermines free speech rights.

The decision, in fact, makes a mockery of Tinker's substantial disruption rule and eviscerates any student free speech rights except those favored by school officials.

At the time, this letter was also criticized for failing to clarify free speech rights as previous OCR letters had done.

Frank was a staunch supporter of press free speech rights under the First Amendment.

U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani determined that enjoining the defendants from making defamatory statements in the future does not violate their constitutional free speech rights, and will protect Dr. Sindi from future harm.

In the case of Robins v. Pruneyard Shopping Center, the Supreme Court said that first amendment free speech rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution do not guarantee individuals the right of access to private property for the purpose of keeping people informed through traditional free speech activities.

Finally, law professor Ryan Calo of the UW School of Law suggested on Twitter that the FBI's proposed order violates free speech rights.

Represented a Connecticut employer concerning the extent to which the Connecticut Constitution's Declaration of Rights protects employees» free speech rights in the workplace.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Pecos, by four Texas cities and 15 elected officials, alleges that the Texas Open Meetings Act violates officials» free speech rights by preventing them from speaking in private on issues facing the public.

«Does Missouri abortion law infringe free speech rights?

Shouldn't the Supreme Court conclude that if EXXON Mobile and GE have the same free speech right that I do as a citizen that they should pay taxes at the same rate a normal citizen pays?

The case has drawn interest from more than a dozen interveners, including the Attorneys General of Ontario and Canada, as well as a number of civil rights and media organizations, who have weighed in on how such an order would affect free speech rights, international comity, and access to justice.

The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled 7 - 6 this month that Buncombe County, N.C., district officials did not violate the teacher's free speech rights under the U.S. Constitution by disciplining her in connection with the selection of the play, «Independence,» for a student competition.

And, yes, the case turns on whether Gawker's free speech right should extend to publishing a video that showed Hogan's ding - a-ling (albeit a grainy version of it).

The justices in the majority brushed aside warnings about what might follow from their ruling in favor of a formal but fervent embrace of a broad interpretation of free speech rights.

Fusion GPS had filed a motion to block the subpoena on the grounds that it would «irreparably damage» the company's business and also «chill» its free speech rights and those of «many others engaging in opposition research on political candidates.»

The independent Senate challenger, Shiva Ayyadurai, filed a federal lawsuit alleging his free speech rights to call Warren fake were violated.

EFF defended the free speech rights of a website publisher who had repeatedly received baseless threats from the corporate owners of Barney the Dinosaur.

In their rush to pass anti-labour laws that would force the province's largest union into a new contract and increase penalties public sector unions that enter illegal strikes, could Premier Alison Redford «s Government also be infringing on the free speech rights of ordinary Albertans?

A U.S. judge has pushed back on Exxon's claim that New York and Massachusetts violated its free speech rights by investigating whether it misled...

Facebook doesn't like to decide what kind of rhetoric is appropriate or inappropriate for fear of encroaching on its users» free speech rights.