Majority of Americans Support First Amendment Conscience Rights and Exemptions ... - MarketWatch (press release)

Majority of Americans Support First Amendment Conscience Rights and Exemptions ... MarketWatch (press release) As America's bishops and Catholic organizations around the country file lawsuits to protect their First Amendment rights from the government's health care mandate, a new survey finds that a significant majority of Americans support the right to opt out ... Abortion as a wedge issue Brattleboro Reformer all 4 news articles »

Should Google's Search Results Be Protected by the First Amendment? - The Atlantic

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Should Google's Search Results Be Protected by the First Amendment? The Atlantic And, as the Drudge Report would be protected by the First Amendment, so should Google search results. With this argument, Google (who funded Volokh's paper) takes the argument against the company and turns it on its head: You think we are not being ... Does First Amendment trump antitrust law? In FTC case, Google hopes so Thomson Reuters News & Insight Professor makes the case that Google is a publisher Livemint all 480 news articles »

First Amendment for Jihad? - FrontPage Magazine

First Amendment for Jihad? FrontPage Magazine His use of the Internet to propagate Jihad, however, was defended by civil libertarians as “free speech,” protected by the First Amendment. But Jihad is not philosophy. It is a call to action, not meditation or self-examination.

A New First Amendment Right: Videotaping the Police - TIME

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A New First Amendment Right: Videotaping the Police TIME But this month, a federal appeals court ruled that a state wiretap law prohibiting it conflicts with the First Amendment. A legal battle has been raging over whether people have the right to make video recordings of the police in public places. DOJ's Public Statements Provide a Road Map for Citizens to Sue in Cop ... Citizen Media Law Project (blog) The Right to Record New York Times all 3 news articles »

Obamacare's Constitutional Defects, First Amendment Division - Cato @ Liberty

Obamacare's Constitutional Defects, First Amendment Division Cato @ Liberty Prior to that, the Obama administration attempted to gag insurers from disclosing how Obamacare harms Medicare Advantage participants, drawing criticism from First Amendment experts like UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, the author of two First ... and more »

First Amendment intended to keep religion out of government - Elgin Courier News

First Amendment intended to keep religion out of government Elgin Courier News I truly regret that as a result, Czymmek has such difficulty when reading and interpreting the First Amendment of the US Constitution. That amendment was written because the Founding Fathers — well-aware of the incredible problems that religion in ...

Inside the first amendment: Will 10 Commandments stay or go? - Traverse City Record Eagle

Inside the first amendment: Will 10 Commandments stay or go? Traverse City Record Eagle More than 30 years ago, the high court ruled that posting the Commandments in public schools is state promotion of religion in violation of the First Amendment's establishment clause (Stone v. Graham). While acknowledging that the Commandments contain ... and more »

First Amendment Rights Suffer as Education Journal Fires Columnist - PolicyMic

First Amendment Rights Suffer as Education Journal Fires Columnist PolicyMic If you work anywhere near the higher education industry, as I do, then you've been deluged with press over The Chronicle of Higher Education's dismissal of Naomi Schaefer Riley from its Brainstorm blog for her blog entry criticizing black studies ... and more »

War on the First Amendment - Government Accountability Project (blog)

War on the First Amendment Government Accountability Project (blog) by Jesselyn Radack on May 21, 2012 ( The Whistleblogger / 2012 ) First Amendment written on the front of the Newseum in Washington, DCEvents of just last week reveal a full-on assault on the First Amendment. Since it seems our government has forgotten, ...

Appeals Panel Weighs Question on Press Rights - New York Times

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Appeals Panel Weighs Question on Press Rights New York Times But a prosecutor, Robert Parker, argued that the First Amendment offers a reporter “no shield to identifying the person” who illegally leaked information, even if the reporter promised to keep his source confidential. Congress had made the unauthorized ... Federal appeals panel hears appeal of reporter protection in ex-CIA officer's ... Washington Post Federal Appeals Panel to Hear CIA Leak Case ABC News all 231 news articles »