"Viewpoint discrimination" refers to the unfair treatment or bias against an individual or group based on their viewpoint or opinion. It occurs when someone is treated differently or denied certain rights or opportunities because of their particular beliefs or perspective.
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Because it did not single out unions «based upon whether a union supports or opposes a particular policy position,» it did not engage
in viewpoint discrimination.
Tom Curtis (# 47) referred to a distinction between «peer review based on quality of paper from peer review
as viewpoint discrimination» What I'm suggesting is that such a distinction can not be made in the real world.
«The State's offering a Choose Life license plate in the absence of a pro-choice alternative
constitutes viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment,» U.S. District Court Judge James Fox wrote in the ruling Friday.
If excluding religious schools from participating in voucher programs represents
impermissible viewpoint discrimination, then requiring voucher schools to refrain from disseminating certain messages would also be impermissible.
The Court has also on occasion allowed the government to engage in
viewpoint discrimination by choosing to subsidize some messages but not others.
Tinker, the court explained, allows for nondisruptive student speech, while Good News Club applied the free - speech clause to elementary - school - age students and
prohibited viewpoint discrimination in the use of school facilities.
Takeaway: This case provides a warning of the potentially steep costs
of viewpoint discrimination in deciding who may use state university logos or mascots, regardless of outside press or political pressures.
Or (a more conservative hypothesis), perhaps it merely indicts you as not being able to distinguish peer review based on quality of paper from peer review
as viewpoint discrimination.
What I propose is that a conservative shareholder who has held at least $ 2,000 worth of Twitter stock for at least one year submit a shareholder proposal for inclusion in Twitter's 2017 proxy statement (it's probably too late to get it into the 2016 proxy statement) that would recite the ways in which Twitter is engaged
in viewpoint discrimination and ask the board to take appropriate action.
CIT said it will submit a complaint to the Equality Commission in Northern Ireland against what it calls «
viewpoint discrimination» and refusal of services by Queen's University to those representing a valid ex-gay minority group.
Viewpoint discrimination is inevitable in such an enterprise, and government should be viewpoint neutral.
It argues that Jackson was sanctioning «
viewpoint discrimination» by government officials, a violation of the First Amendment.
A South Carolina school district that used newsletters, e-mail, and its Web site to drum up opposition to a tuition - tax - credit bill in the state legislature faces a lawsuit claiming it committed «
viewpoint discrimination» against a resident who was denied the use of the same outlets to air his views.
Four justices came to that result using the strict scrutiny applied to
viewpoint discrimination, and four reached the same result using less - onerous limits applicable to restrictions on commercial speech.
Actually, it's
viewpoint discrimination: you pirates and piratey site just can not stand any dissent, no matter how on - topic, within common law and common decency.