Sentences with phrase «suppress protected speech»
In addition, the proposed Congressional bill would allow American authors and publishers to countersue, and if a jury found that the foreign suit was an attempt to suppress protected speech, it could award treble damages.
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Ultimately, even if you are so criticized that you speech is effectively suppressed, then your legally derived rights don't protect you from being shouted down by the citizenry, but you are protected from the government.
However, he also referred to campaign ads as «pure political speech» and added that «the First Amendment requires us to err on the side of protecting speech rather than suppressing it.»