Sentences with phrase «from free speech protections»

But if a member union takes a particular pro-free-speech view, it does seem odd that the AFL - CIO — which has long benefited from free speech protections, and has long fought for broadening such protections — would label that view «troubling and extreme.»

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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.

To absolutize the right of free speech would prevent the Supreme Court from ever drawing the line between invasion of necessary rights and the protection of democracy, and thus would make it self - contradictory.

But free speech does not mean protection from backlash and people standing up for what's right.

The other board members seized on Paladino's comments as an opportunity to remove him from the Board of Education, despite protection under the First Amendment and his right to free speech, the lawsuit alleges.

With their pro bono representation, I sued several Washington officials, among them Governor Gary Locke, arguing that the state's exclusion of theology majors from the Promise Scholarship program violated my rights to free speech, free exercise of religion, and equal protection under the laws.

Saunders even unsuccessfully sued Parker in federal court last year, charging that Parker violated his free - speech protections by barring him from speaking publicly for the union.

But aside from the reality that all art is political, «Citizens United» effectively gave cash donations the same free speech protections enjoyed by works of art.

In this episode of the Modern Law Library, professor Adam Winkler, author of We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, shares what he learned from his investigation into how corporations have achieved constitutional protections ranging from the right to sue and be sued, to individual rights like religious liberty protections and free speech.

So Ehrenfeld has taken the lead in promoting legislation, which would block enforcement of libel judgments from countries that provide less free speech protection than in the United States.

In a December 8, 2014 ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Beth Bloom concluded that it violates the First Amendment's protection of free speech for The Florida Bar to prevent a lawyer from using past results in advertising their services in certain media.

[63] This guidance from the Supreme Court explains that the protection of free speech is not intended to be at the expense of a wrongfully defamed person's ability to obtain a civil remedy for the tort of libel.