Sentences with phrase «free speech rights of»

Also, because I am regularly railing on attorney regulators for disregarding the free speech rights of attorneys, I must note this: the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission did an exemplary job of parsing the First Amendment issues in rendering their decision.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation today announced that it has asked a federal court to protect the free speech rights of MoveOn.org and Brave New Films after YouTube removed their video, «Stop the Falsiness,» a satire poking fun at Stephen Colbert's Comedy Central show, «The Colbert Report.»

Canada's laws are being used to attack the free speech rights of authors and activists.

By this evening, a total of 19 Democrats, led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, will have taken to the floor of the United States Senate to attack the free speech rights of individual and organizations that disagree with the government dogma on the causes and consequences of global warming.

Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Herbert The Animal Legal Defense Fund, along with PETA, filed the nation's first lawsuit against ag gag legislation, taking Utah to court for infringing on the free speech rights of activists, investigators, and journalists by criminalizing undercover investigations at factory farms.

As per a related announcement released by the ASBA, this «could have a chilling effect on the free speech rights of school and district officials» throughout the state but also (likely) beyond if this continues to catch on.

Given that a recent Washington Post article pointed out that the Supreme Court will soon review whether Texas's rejection of a proposed license plate featuring the Confederate flag violated the free speech rights of the group that wanted the special plates, invite one of the names appearing in the article to participate in a Meet and Greet.

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

While frustrations are now growing among some elected officials and local leaders who say no progress has been made, Quinn said she hopes that Brookfield and the protesters will be able to come to together in the coming days to reach a compromise that strikes the right balance between the free speech rights of the protesters and mounting concerns from nearby businesses and residents that «are not insignificant,» she said.

Even though Sydney's Child settled with Ezzo over the fundamentalism article, he is now trying to silence the free speech rights of a prominent critic of his materials in Australia.

They force women to undergo mandated «education»; they limit women's feeding choices within the hospital; and they interfere with the free speech rights of medical professionals who believe that aggressive breastfeeding promotion is harmful to mothers and potentially deadly to babies.

It does not impinge on the free speech rights of any private individual.

«This is a great victory for the free speech rights of all North Carolinians, regardless of their point of view on reproductive freedom,» said Chris Brook of the ACLU.

Laycock's hypothesis ripened into full - blown suspicion by June 2000 when Justice Stevens took the position that the free speech rights of the Boy Scouts were not violated by a state law requiring them to employ an avowed homosexual as an assistant scoutmaster.

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?

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

Not exact matches

A number of the users whose accounts were limited after this feature was being tested complained that their free - speech rights were being restricted for no reason, just because they used a specific word.

Jacobs: You've talked a lot about free speech, civil rights, the principles of that.

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).

As long as people have a right to freedom of speech, businesses are free to sell whatever is still legal.

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

Facebook, which got the case moved to San Francisco from Illinois, argued the users hadn't suffered a concrete injury such as physical harm, loss of money or property; or a denial of their right to free speech or religion.

«The Turkish government's news media shutdown shows how the State of Emergency law is being used to deny the right to free speech beyond any legitimate aim of upholding public order,» Human Rights Watch said in a statement.

«Kanye West has a right to free speech, and he has the right to spout lies and misinformation and misplaced opinions — but we as consumers have the right to fight back against this type of dangerous propaganda,» it read.

In the speech that urged the Alliance to embrace social conservatives, Harper also said that left - wing Canadians stand for «radical, responsibility - free individualism» and «tribalism in the form of group rights.»

As blame fell to Facebook for Trump's election, word of Facebook prototyping a censorship tool for operating in China escaped, triggering questions about its respect for human rights and free speech.

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.

EFF defended the free speech and fair use rights of an online newsletter publisher after the world's third largest pharmaceutical company that accused him of trademark infringement and cybersquatting.

His ban from visiting Britain in June 2009 has made him the «poster child» for free speech, not only for Americans concerned about the cultural shift towards totalitarianism and their rights to freedom of expression, but for people around the globe.

If the federal and state governments come in and slap new regulations and oversight on these companies, it's their own fault for practicing elitist arrogance in an attempt to shape a specific narrative that damages the very fabric of a society where the first amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the rights of free expression and free speech.

Constitutional Amendment 1: «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances»

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

I mentioned the ninth amendment for one reason, one can not use ones free speech to disparage the right of free religion of another.

your free speech «rights» end at the door of your workplace.

Critics argue the law suppresses free speech and makes South Korea like its northern counterpart, known for its human rights abuses and oppression of religious and political minorities.

«Unfortunately, this new action can not be seen as anything other than an attempt to muzzle the church and subject our right of free speech to government review and regulation,» he added.

> I agree with Richard some people just because they profess there faith doesn't mean there trying to push there beliefs on anyone people of faith have a right to free speech also.

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

Matt Walsh is a minority voice that is practicing his free speech rights, but his being fired REPEATEDLY in the past 4 years shows that freedom of speech does include the right to call him a pompous ass.

So many people who advocate or speak publicly for political or personal reasons aren't acknowledged as much when it comes to religion when someone is wanting to speak out about there faith a light bulb goes off and says we don't want to hear, or talk, or, air any thing that has to do with the mentioning of God but because of the high profile story and because this is the President of the United States it's ok hats off to them for not being ashamed to speak about there faith I agree with Richard some people just because they profess there faith doesn't mean there trying to push there beliefs on anyone people of faith have a right to free speech also.

It sounds to me like you are fine with atheists supporting discrimination against gays, just so long as gays don't have to support the free speech or other rights of atheists.

He certainly has the right of free speech.

This approach — keeping the process open to unpopular groups and viewpoints — explains many of the modern court's rulings supporting racial equality, voting rights and free speech.

Many argue that the legislation stipulating the rights of homosexual people not to feel harassed overrides the rights of others to free speech.

Mr. Keith Cressman, a Methodist minister, filed suit against the state alleging violations of his rights to freedom of speech, due process, and the free exercise of religion under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Corporations are people and have free speech rights, so businesses should be able to deny services to gays because of their beliefs, but if another corporation doesn't want to enter into a business venture because they found out their future partners are anti-gay bigots that is somehow wrong?

Thu - mping bible babble anywhere is part of our right to free speech guaranteed by the Const - itution.

Besides, are you suggesting that we suppress anyone's right to free speech because if you are than you need to move to one of these bass ackward countries where a less than middle school quality production of a total farce can insight people to act as a pack of rabid dogs blaming America for why they live in dirt... We are LUCKY and BLESSED to live in a land where we can smile and walk away from an opinion that we disagree with... that South Park can but Jesus in a boxing ring against Satan and depict Moses as a glowing spinning dreidl... and these nutcases want to burn and pillage because one lunatic makes a childish and stupid play on videotape?

If I am to have a right to free speech, for example, then I must be empowered to speak and be heard, which means using the power of the state to give me the resources I need and to suppress anything that might disempower me.

We also agree today on many basic features of a democratic society: the right to vote, the right to due process of law, the right to free speech.