Sentences with phrase «violate free speech rights»

On Wednesday, the FDA campaign may have died out altogether, as U.S. District Judge Richard Leon granted summary judgment in favor of five tobacco companies who objected that the proposed warnings would violate their free speech rights, cost millions of dollars to print and require them to feature anti-smoking advocacy more prominently than their own brands.

In August 2011, however, four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies filed a lawsuit against the federal government claiming that requiring the gnarly warnings to accompany their product will violate their free speech rights, cost millions of dollars to print, and require them to feature anti-smoking advocacy more prominently than their own brands.

The lawsuit alleges that requiring the tobacco companies to add these warnings to their product will violate their free speech rights; cost millions of dollars to print; and require them to feature anti-smoking advocacy more prominently than their own brands.

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.

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

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...

The New York State United Teachers argues in the legal action that the confidentiality requirement — which the labor group says is essentially a «gag order» against teachers is unconstitutional and violates free speech rights.

The California law, adopted first, faced two court challenges from SOCE practitioners on the grounds that it violated their free speech rights, but last August a federal appeals court upheld the statute, distinguishing between the rights practitioners enjoy to advocate for the practice in public debate and the limitations on the therapeutic practices they can employ in their professional conduct governed by state licensing.

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 Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a case brought by ten teachers who say that California's requirement that they pay the equivalent of union dues violates their free speech rights.

More recently, The Third Circuit, in a case from Pennsylvania, affirmed a school board's motion for summary judgment in response to a teacher's claim that officials violated her free speech rights for terminating her employment over comments she posted on her blog (Munroe v. Central Bucks School District, 2015).

Not exact matches

Where's the ACLU when their rights to free speech are being violated?

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.

F forcing them along these lines violates their right to free speech because it mandates a behavior, by the Greens, which they conscientiously object to.

Their lawyers also said Mr Avakian and the state Bureau of Labor and Industries violated the Kleins» rights as artists to free speech, their rights to religious freedom and their rights as defendants to a due process.

So did U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who on December 9 rejected the archdiocese's claim that WMATA's refusal to post the ad violated its First Amendment right of free speech.

The move has sparked outrage from many Christians who feel the subpoenas violate religious freedom and free speech rights.

A key industry strategy has been to recruit lawyers to write white papers charging that the proposed nutrition standards violate First Amendment rights to free speech.

The National Organiztion for Marriage has filed a lawsuit in federal court that seeks to circumvent the state's campaign contributions limits, arguing that the caps violate its right to free speech.

They argued that Paladino's First Amendment right to free speech was violated.

«Peaceful expression of views on controversial issues that is not disruptive or threatening is a right that all students have in this country, and any attempts to stifle this speech violates the constitutional rights of students and faculty to free speech,» Cuomo wrote in the letter to Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia.

That has drawn criticism from civil rights groups who contend the governor's order violates First Amendment or free speech rights.

He had challenged the state election commission's denial, claiming it violates his right to free speech and puts him at a disadvantage against funded candidates.

Regardless of the decision, Paladino has vowed to file a federal lawsuit on the grounds that his right to free speech was violated.

«My client feels very strongly that his constitutional rights, including his right to free speech have been violated by the actions of the majority members of the Board, the Board of Education and the school district as a result of a resolution that was passed seeking to remove my client from elected office,» Vacco said.

This section specifically was found to violate the rights of free speech, as protected by the First Amendment, for a collection of individuals gathered via contractual agreement.

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Carl Paladino has sued the Buffalo School Board and the district over claims the board has violated his right to free speech.

He argues that they are retaliating against him for comments he made last December about former President Barack Obama and his wife, thereby violating his right to free speech.

Regardless of the outcome of the hearing, Paladino has already filed a federal lawsuit against the board, charging that his constitutional rights to free speech have been violated.

But Bernstein claims that this violates his right of free speech, which is guaranteed under the American constitution.

(Two weeks before the FTC publicly announced its lawsuit, POM preemptively sued the FTC, claiming that preapproval of ads featuring health claims violates the companys right to free speech.)

But first he explores a theory that he developed while serving a sentence for violating campaign finance laws (in the exercise of his «free speech» rights) that postulates that political parties have a criminal mentality to how they operate.

FIRE, an organization dedicated to the preservation of free speech, has accused a number of universities, including Washington State University on behalf of Edward Swan, of evaluating students on the basis of their political views and thereby violating their First Amendment rights.

Under these circumstances it is being examined if the right to free speech is violated in the cyberspace.

One decided that the high school student's right to free expression was violated and that school officials» authority over students» off - campus speech was limited; the other, that the school had the right to discipline the student and that it made no difference that the student's speech originated off campus.

He also found that that defendants had made a strong case — would be «likely to succeed on the merits» — that «being compelled to describe their behavior as wrong on threat of a felony conviction forces them to express a belief they do not hold and thus violates their right to be free of compelled speech.»

But regardless, the bigger question is whether her free speech rights were violated.

The school district also maintained that banning the meetings would violate the students» rights of free speech and free expression.

WASHINGTON — Teachers» unions L violate non-members rights to free dom of speech and association when they use the fees that non-members are compelled to pay for activities unrelated to local collective barL gaining, a lawyer for six Michigan college instructors told the U.S. Su preme Court last week.

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.

-- Bader was also a prominent voice on the right criticizing the Obama Education Department's campus sexual assault policies as trampling the rights of the accused and violating students» free speech rights.

Critics say this may violate free - speech and privacy rights.

The High Court on Nov. 14 ordered the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to re-examine its April 1994 ruling that college officials had violated Mr. Jeffries's free - speech rights.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert O'Brien issued the order in response to a class - action lawsuit filed against the Compton Unified School District by parents at McKinley Elementary School alleging that the verification process violated their constitutional rights to free speech and equal opportunity.

The justices said they were split on a challenge brought by a group of California teachers who claim their free - speech rights are violated when they are forced to pay dues to the state's teachers union.

The plaintiffs will essentially be asking the court to overturn a 1977 ruling in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, in part by arguing that unions have gone too far in recent years allowing their collective bargaining efforts to become intertwined with political activism, which then violates the plaintiffs rights to free speech by forcing them to fund political actions they are often opposed to.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit found in August that the ban violated the students» rights to free speech at the Easton Area Middle School in Pennsylvania.

Erik Estavillo, avid player of Resistance: Fall of Man originally filed suit against Sony back in June, claiming that his ban somehow violated his right of free speech.

Congressman Clay has stated that the removal of the work, painted by Missouri student David Pulphus, violates Pulphus's right to free speech, adding that «[t] his case is truly about something much bigger than a student's painting.

He accused the attorneys general of colluding with environmentalists, violating Exxon's free speech rights and chilling private sector science funding.