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Created by dipity on Mar 5, 2009
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...criticized Democratic nominee Chris Coons’ position that teaching creationism in public school would violate the First Amendment by promoting religious doctrine. Coons said private and parochial schools are free to teach creationism but that “religious doctrine...
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FrumForum
http://www.frumforum.com/odonnell-unsure-about-separation-of-church-and-state
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...to take action on this bill. In 2010, they did take action by proposing Amendment 8, which would amend the people's 2002 amendment by not only increasing the number of students per classroom but also by calculating class size by school-wide averages and not...
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The Tampa Tribune
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/oct/19/amendment-8-does-not-put-our-children-first/news-opinion-commentary/
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The First Amendment's five freedoms ensure that government doesn't run roughshod over our religious-liberty and free-expression rights.
But sometimes, the First Amendment doesn't win out.
Thankfully, it's not all that often. When it does happen,
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Salem Statesman-Journal
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100605/OPINION/6050301/1046
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The First Amendment's five freedoms ensure that government doesn't run roughshod over our religious-liberty and free-expression rights.
But sometimes, the First Amendment doesn't win out.
Thankfully, it's not all that often. When it does happen,
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The St. George Spectrum
http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20100603/OPINION/6030301/1014/OPINION
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In his letter to the editor May 18, Mr. David Grubbs states, "The (first) amendment calls for a ban on congressional action in establishing religion, period."
This is precisely the issue. There is no period after the establishment clause of the First
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Rutherford Daily News Journal
http://dnj.com/article/20100525/OPINION03/5250312/1014/rss05
Quaker missionaries barred Eskimo dancing when Noorvik was established in 1914.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22637
Superintendent says webcam was activated only when student computers were lost or stolen, but lawsuit alleges school notified parents that son was behaving inappropriately at home.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22631
Last-minute order puts hold on 30-day criminal-contempt sentence imposed after Kevin Trudeau's supporters bombarded federal judge's computer with e-mails.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22630
One panel of judges upholds suspension of eighth-grader for fake MySpace page; another panel says school officials can't punish senior for his parody page.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22577
10th Circuit finds protesters can't sue because volunteers who evicted them acted under White House direction in official capacity.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22557
Company asks judge to invalidate 45 notices sent by heirs of one of its most successful artists, who claim rights to many lucrative characters soon will revert from Marvel to Jack Kirby's estate.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22492
For decades, business and union money has been largely shut out of state, congressional and presidential campaigns, but upcoming Supreme Court ruling may change that in a big way.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22482
Entertainment Software Association chief praises injunction as 'a win for Chicago's citizens, the video game industry and, above all, the First Amendment.'
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22484
But court finds ban on color, graphics in ads goes too far, as does FDA rule barring everyone from saying that agency's regulation of tobacco makes it safe.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22466
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says critics of his police policies who provide such tipoffs are walking a line between free speech and breaking the law.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22458
Questionnaires used in jury selection are subject to public disclosure, justices rule in open-records case stemming from Simpson kidnap-robbery trial.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22442
Alliance Defense Fund contends that in many cases, university speech codes protect left-wing viewpoints while eroding Christian conservatives' free-speech rights.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22436
In Charleston and Wilkes-Barre, creche scenes taken down, then put back up with additions of other holiday symbols.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22428
Federal judge orders officials to disclose 2,000 pages of documents related to police surveillance of activists before 2004 GOP convention.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22408
Sponsor says legislation would force industry to comply with its own standards: 'Volunteerism hasn't worked for 50 years.'
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22409
By David L. Hudson Law is content-neutral, narrowly drawn to serve state’s health interests, justices rule.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22404
Measure includes broad definition of a journalist — including bloggers, citizen journalists, freelancers — and relies on court tests to determine whether sources deserve protection.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22388
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...2001, terrorist attacks somehow deserved their fate. Hard to take, of course, but that's exactly the kind of speech the First Amendment was crafted to protect. Remember that the words of the patriots that we now revere were seen as treasonous by the Crown,...
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Livingston Daily
http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20091206/OPINION01/912060303/1014/rss03
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...the legislation as a "monstrosity" that employs "Bernie Madoff accounting, Enron accounting" as he offered the first GOP amendment. McCain's amendment would strip out more than $400 billion in Medicare cuts to home health providers, hospitals, hospices and...
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KansasCity.com
http://www.kansascity.com/438/story/1603518.html
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...of speech; rather, it targets the conduct used to gather information. These are two radically different concepts under First Amendment jurisprudence. The law aims to punish the invasion of privacy, a generally applicable tort, not the content of what someone...
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Blogger News
http://www.bloggernews.net/122925
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...American is protected by the guarantees of the First Amendment, but protections for religious liberty and free expression apply only when government actions are involved -- and therein is the rub for some of our fellow citizens. A former Home Depot employee...
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Coshocton Tribune
http://coshoctontribune.com/article/20091104/OPINION02/911040313/1014/rss04
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...at Londonderry High School. The First Amendment Award was established to honor New Hampshire residents who protect First Amendment liberties. Other recipients have been former Attorney General Philip McLaughlin, former Keene Sentinel Editor Thomas Kearney,...
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The Union Leader
http://www.unionleader.com/rssarticle.aspx?articleId=2939e39c-7e88-4d44-a430-6ec63138ab99
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...and states. The case also will decide whether the Second Amendment protects a broad constitutional right, similar to the First Amendment's right to free speech or the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. In the past, the...
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The San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_13455792?source=rss
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...and those institutions and their practices are sticky and largely self-sustaining. They are not simply creatures of the First Amendment. But the First Amendment might develop in a stronger and more socially responsive way if it were their creature. The First...
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PrawfsBlawg
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2009/09/the-first-amendment-in-2020-an-institutional-perspective.html
After Wausau Daily Herald told local official who was anonymously criticizing him online, official sent man a warning letter.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22083
Business-records provision has long been criticized by civil rights groups as giving the government access to citizens' library records.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22072
Decision whether to accept agreement between company and U.S. authors, publishers rests with federal judge.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22062
Policy set to begin Sept. 15; watchdog group applauds change, settles four pending Freedom of Information Act cases.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22028
Denver judge sides with newspaper, agreeing that panel, which was created to increase accountability and transparency in government, violated open-meeting law.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22026
St. Petersburg Times' parent company says it will appeal ruling in lawsuit stemming from three articles published in 2003.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22011
Raneen Albaghdady said she was intimidated by Wayne County Circuit judge and feared she would be arrested if she refused.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=22000
American Civil Liberties Union announces settlement of lawsuit brought on behalf of activists targeted before World Agricultural Forum in 2003.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=21989
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...politics -- a fundamental right to participate in their democracy without concern for physical retribution. It is the primary amendment because America was first and foremost created not as a gun-owners' haven, but as a place to shelter citizens from oppression. Over...
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MyDD
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mydd/~3/RFg0uIAsxf8/6770
In 'Supreme Decision,' middle schoolers can help justices decide First Amendment case.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=21978
Lawsuit, which group filed on behalf of Conservative Jewish rabbi, says state violates First Amendment by requiring that kosher food meet 'Orthodox Hebrew religious rules.'
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=21972
Panel says public employees who make statements about a public concern as part of their job duties aren't exercising free speech.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=21957
Tennessee appeals court sides with former prisoner and editor, saying Corrections Corporation of America is subject to Public Records Act.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=21950
Clifton Williams has already served 20 days for contempt for making what court documents call yawn-like sound; witnesses disagree about whether noise was out of line.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=21942
FTC announces plans to vote this summer to update guidelines on endorsements, making it clear they ban phony online reviews.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=21929
Governor signs measure that outlaws hanging symbol on someone else's property or at school or workplace with intent of 'terrorizing' others.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=21928
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...Reading First proposed to Congress in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was designed to confer on women the Fourteenth Amendment’s promise of “equal protection of the laws” by abolishing the use of sex as a factor in determining the legal rights of individuals....
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First Principles
http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=724&loc=r
William Platt recommends that state high court order new trial in lawsuit against newspaper, finds case was tainted by misconduct of two judges at center of unrelated corruption case.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=21916
However, court throws out new rule limiting attorneys' use of celebrity endorsements, two others that govern lawyers' Internet ads.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=21908
Board attorney says stylized, art-nouveau rendition of naked female with flying bicycle violates state rules against displaying 'person posed in an immoral or sensuous manner.'
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=21900
Meanwhile, judge orders release of hundreds of pages of previously sealed grand jury testimony and lifts gag order.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=21897
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