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A pair of Supreme Court decisions makes it clear that the government can encourage and discourage speech without violating the 1st Amendment.
"The First Amendment is spinning out of control," Columbia law professor Tim Wu warns in a New York Times essay. While Wu ostensibly objects to Supreme Court decisions that he thinks have ...
Minnesota recognized freedom of the press by roundly rejecting prior restraints on publication, a principle that applied to free speech generally in subsequent jurisprudence. The court ruled that a Minnesota law targeting publishers of malicious or scandalous newspapers violated the First Amendment (as applied through the Fourteenth Amendment ).
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that the freedom of speech protections in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution restrict the ability of public officials to sue for defamation. [1] [2] The decision held that if a plaintiff in a defamation lawsuit is a public official or candidate for public office, then not only must ...
List of United States Supreme Court cases involving the First Amendment This is a list of cases that appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States involving the First Amendment to the United States Constitution .
The USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida's First Amendment reporter writes about what readers need to know about what passed and failed this session.
Des Moines Independent Community School District ( 393 U.S. 503) that students' freedom of expression is protected under the First Amendment. Following that precedent, at least 125 cases in lower courts across the country were decided in favor of student expression and against administrative censorship.
The First Amendment covers a slew of protections promised to each American citizen. This includes freedom of assembly, freedom of the press and freedom of speech.