Civil Rights | Free Speech

2010-03-13: Headlines

  • The Guardian: Seven days of BA strikes to go ahead 2010-03-13
    You are lucky that you have free speech. if you worked as cabin crew for BA, you CANNOT have an opinion. the company has withdrawn all forum privaledges ...
  • National Post: David Frum: Shame and anger from York alumni 2010-03-13
    Closed-minded professors; ignorant, bigoted students, and an overall atmosphere antagonistic to any form of free speech or thought.
  • Los Angeles Times: Protecting the vile 2010-03-13
    Ugly as it was, the protest was an exercise of the same right of free speech that protected protesters who burned the American flag and Nazis who sought ...
  • San Francisco Chronicle: Santa Cruz man gets rehearing in Nazi salute 2010-03-13
    ... in San Francisco ruled in November that a federal judge had properly dismissed Robert Norse's free-speech suit because his actions were disruptive.
  • Patriot Post: Hail to the Chief Justice 2010-03-13
    The McCain-Feingold Act was one of the worst infringements of free speech since the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. In very practical term ...
  • ISRIA: OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu and Foreign Secretary David ... 2010-03-13
    ... reform inside the Muslim majority countries and we support the promotion of universal values of human rights and free speech and democratic governance.
  • DigitalJournal.com: Australia on 'Internet Enemies' list because of internet filter 2010-03-13
    Exactly how Australia censoring a few internet nasties qualifies as a blow against free expression, free speech, or all the other non-existent civil ...
  • Kurdish Globe: Berivan must be released now 2010-03-13
    ... via arrests, imprisonments, torture, and execution, always trying to take away over 50 million Kurds' basic rights to free speech, political freedom ...
  • Bay Windows: Remember: we can't march in Southie's Parade 2010-03-13
    Our courts do not cite the First Amendment's free speech protections to justify discrimination in other contexts; however, the right to free speech ...
  • The Daily News of Newburyport: In Washington, they're goring the sacred cows 2010-03-13
    "Concerning which the court has said money talking is free speech," Freddy said. "And the court is taking a beating for it from Democrats," I said.
  • San Diego Union Tribune: UCSD tabloid Koala won't lose funding 2010-03-13
    ... one of the publications that receives student government money, believes the answer to the concerns over The Koala is more free speech, not less.
  • Charleston: W.Va. Senate OKs bill aimed at online bullies - Daily Mail 2010-03-13
    ... in e-mail or through other electronic means. Supporters of the bill say it doesn't abridge free speech because it exempts comments that simply criticize.
  • Traverse City Record Eagle: Making it hip: Rebellion is now fashion 2010-03-13
    Designer Melih Kesmen became fed up with the anti-Muslim stereotypes that sprang up over the protests as well as the rioters' attempts to stifle free speech ...
  • The Virginian-Pilot: Specialty plates touting right to abortion will face vote today 2010-03-13
    Threats of a free-speech lawsuit from the ACLU has weighed on the decision of Virginia lawmakers to approve or deny the specialty plate.
  • Fort Worth Star Telegram: The cleansing power of light 2010-03-13
    They say punishing a knowing violation of the law with jail time and a fine stifles their free-speech rights. They're wrong. Elected officials are free ...
  • The Daily News of Newburyport: Column: Attitudes, not words, are what must change 2010-03-13
    But suppressing free speech isn't going to do it. Taylor Armerding is a staff columnist. He may be reached at 978-946-2213 or ...
  • Leagle.com: Independent panel gets OK, cap on gifts fails 2010-03-13
    "Contribution caps failed because of a concern about First Amendment free speech issues," Valentine said, noting that the recent US Supreme Court ruling ...
  • Napa Valley Register: Privacy for information 2010-03-13
    As Americans, our DNA is strongly rooted in free speech, which has been expanded into the Internet to mean free access. This is great on the front side ...
  • WXIA-TV: Protestor: 'Elton John Must Die' 2010-03-13
    We asked first amendment attorney Alan Begner if Horsley's demonstration represents legitimate free speech. "It's a close call. And I'm a defender of free ...
  • dBusinessNews Triangle: Full Frame Announces Career Award Programming Honoring Liz Garbus and Rory Kennedy 2010-03-13
    A compelling story about the First Amendment, illustrated with several gripping case studies about the limits of free speech in today's America.
  • Jacksonville Daily News: Onslow commissioners look to silence tax critics 2010-03-13
    ... Paul Buchanan put the brakes on the talk when he said the comment period was allowed for by law and that they should not interfere with free speech.
  • Pahrump Valley Times: 9th Circuit reverses on ads for brothels 2010-03-13
    "Free speech is perhaps our most cherished right. But prostitution is a difficult issue in every state. The circuit's decision proves there are different ...
  • WBXH: Lawsuit filed over fictional giraffe attack story 2010-03-13
    Brilleaux's attorney said this brings up the issue of free speech. "This situation is one in which Global Wildlife, which is a wonderful local asset ...
  • Baltimore Sun: Free speech is paramount 2010-03-13
    More than 30 years ago, a young Jewish lawyer named David Goldberger defended the rights of American Nazis to march through the streets of Skokie, Ill.
  • 1010 Wins: EEOC Rules NYC Wronged Arabic-Language Principal 2010-03-13
    Last year, a judge dismissed a separate claim by Almontaser in which she argued school officials had violated her right to free speech by forcing her ...
  • Jollofnews: GPU-USA unveils elaborate plan for Chief Manneh, G... 2010-03-13
    No price is too steep for free speech. We remain steadfast to the restoration of a free and independent press in Banjul. It is gratifying to note that some ...
  • Firedoglake: Come Saturday Morning: Compare and Contrast, Terrorism Edition 2010-03-13
    ... as the building blocks for finished intelligence reports based on Americans doing nothing more than exercising their right to free speech.
  • Channel 7 Daily News: Eyewitnesses to Coy-Teul Confrontation 2010-03-13
    In the modern democratic milieu where unfettered free speech means just picking up a phone and calling a radio station, it sounds almost outlandish to even ...
  • New York Times: China Issues Another Warning to Google on Enforced Censorship of the Internet 2010-03-13
    ... brusquely after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a February speech, chided the Chinese government for restricting free speech online.
  • China Post: Elvis' clash with the media showcased 2010-03-13
    ... that also will make Elvis the subject of a new exhibition at the Newseum, a history museum that celebrates US journalism and free speech in Washington.
  • MetroWest Daily News: SMOC pressured to drop individuals from suit 2010-03-13
    Some who support SMOC's mission have suggested that suing the officials as individuals is excessive and an attempt to stifle free speech.
  • Orlando Sentinel: A better way to run elections 2010-03-13
    A court decision citing free-speech concerns last year might prevent Florida from controlling 527s much further. But holding up a mirror to them at least ...
  • NewsOK.com: Enhancing democracy by banning speech 2010-03-13
    As soon as the court decision came down in January, ruling that the corporate spending ban violated free-speech rights, they demanded action to undo th ...
  • Jamestown Sun: The last thing we need 2010-03-13
    It's an honorable profession, and campaign contributions are a legitimate expression of free speech. But there should be reasonable limits on how campaign ...
  • DesMoinesRegister.com: Accountability for corporate free speech 2010-03-13
    ... spend money on "independent expenditures," such as political ads, ruling that corporations should have the same free speech protections as individuals.
  • KCRA Sacramento: Panel To Reconsider Nazi Salute Case 2010-03-13
    ... that an 11-judge panel will reconsider a ruling in which a smaller panel of the court last year dismissed a free-speech lawsuit filed by Robert Norse.
  • Shreveport Times: State Sen. Sharon Broome: Stop passing the broadband buck 2010-03-13
    ... a rule that uses the concept of "free speech" as a ruse and allows wealthy Internet companies to shift the burgeoning costs of the broadb ...
  • Tampabay.com: Oversight of 911 calls must override sympathy for victims' families 2010-03-13
    In our state it almost has the status of free speech as a basic right promoting democracy and responsible government. Access to emergency calls allows ...
  • First Amendment Center: New Va. law to exempt yoga teachers from state regulations 2010-03-13
    And several yoga teachers had filed a federal lawsuit arguing the proposed regulations hindered free-speech protections. The bill (HB 703) exempting yog ...
  • Worcester Telegram: Free speech butts heads with venom 2010-03-13
    Although the Supreme Court may consider issues such as disrupting funerals, the big issue is free speech. Do Fred Phelps and the other members of his church ...

2010-03-12: Headlines

  • Baltimore Sun: Free speech is paramount -- even when it's deplorable 2010-03-12
    More than 30 years ago, a young Jewish lawyer named David Goldberger defended the rights of American Nazis to march through the streets of Skokie, Ill.
  • The Nation.: Aren't We Cheneyed Out Yet? 2010-03-12
    The F Word is a regular commentary by Laura Flanders, the host of GRITtv which broadcasts weekdays on satellite TV (Dish Network Ch. 9415 Free Speech TV) ...
  • Bay Area Indymedia: Major National Public Health And Safety Issues Raised In 3/15 Federal Trial ... 2010-03-12
    McClain is suing for free speech and retaliation by Pfizer. Her case is in Hartford CT Federal Courthouse at 450 Main St. 9:30 AM with US Federal Judge ...
  • McClatchy Washington Bureau: Commentary: Representing Gitmo inmates serves America 2010-03-12
    As head of the American Civil Liberties Union, he insisted on defending the Nazis' right to free speech, and the ACLU won the case. Neier's decision got him ...
  • Online Journal: Shading corruption for the appearance of truth 2010-03-12
    ... never lost his love for Mother Russia, his family roots in the KBG, or his father's costly penchant for defending free speech in a totalitarian country.
  • Registan.net: Kazakhstan's Libel Laws 2010-03-12
    But the West has a tricky relationship to free speech. In the UK, for example, a bizarre and to American sensibilities oppressive set of libel laws allow ...
  • Huffington Post: Second Mistrial for Shock Jock Hal Turner 2010-03-12
    Were Turner's comments a clear threat, as prosecutors alleged, or simply "the type of free speech that the FBI had encouraged and condoned in the past,"  ...
  • Twin Cities Planet: FREE SPEECH ZONE | Citizen Cope at Varsity Theater 2010-03-12
    By Jordan Sandvig, Free Speech Zone In a pop music landscape filled with ego's the size of Kanye West's and costume changes the likes of Lady ...
  • Twin Cities Planet: Two in the Afternoon: Walt Blue and Linda Chatterton 2010-03-12
    MORE » The Free Speech Zone offers a space for contributions from readers, without editing by the TC Daily Planet. This is an open forum for articles th ...
  • Los Angeles Times: Brazil's president blasted for comments on Cuba's dissidents and their hunger ... 2010-03-12
    "It's one thing to defend democracy, human rights, the right to free speech," said Amorim. "It's another thing to be supporting everything that is dissident ...
  • Reuters: US court backs FCC ban on some cable program deals 2010-03-12
    N) had challenged the FCC decision, arguing that it was arbitrary and capricious and violated free speech rights, and that the agency had misinterpreted ...
  • Los Angeles Times: Swedish artist has no regrets over prophet drawing, says Islam not off lim ... 2010-03-12
    At least three Swedish newspapers reprinted Vilks' drawing Wednesday, citing its news value and the defense of free speech. Associated Press writers Louise ...
  • National Post: The National Post's Spring Books Quarterly arrives Saturday 2010-03-12
    But as one might expect, America's free speech advocates say the whole matter is being blown out of proportion. The National Post's arts team makes their ...
  • Orlando Sentinel: Auto mechanic wins court injunction 2010-03-12
    "This is a clear victory for Mr. Weatherbee and for free speech in Florida," said Maria Kayanan, associate legal director for the American Civil Libertie ...
  • The Houghton Star: How the Religious Right Has Failed Itself 2010-03-12
    It also may be important to note that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) defended the Psalm 109:8 bumper stickers as a legal form of free speech.
  • NBC Connecticut: Judge Says State Can Force-Feed Inmate 2010-03-12
    Coleman says the charges were made up and maintains that the force-feedings violate his free speech rights. David McGuire, an American Civil Liberties Uni ...
  • CNW Group: Progressive Jews Welcome Defeat of Motion Condemning Israeli Apartheid Week 2010-03-12
    "Whether or not you agree with the term 'apartheid', all Canadians should defend free speech and oppose limiting debate, especially considering these term ...
  • The Business Insider: Hating On The Principal: The Conflicting World Of Students, Free Speech ... 2010-03-12
    There are exceptions to free speech, and maintaining an atmosphere that is positive for education and does not disrupt that process have often been rea ...
  • The Sun: Friday on SunTalk 2010-03-12
    ... Gaunty chats to Tim Crook, Head of Radio at Goldsmiths University of London, to discuss where we determine the boundaries of free speech are.
  • Spectator.co.uk: Reforming the obscenity laws 2010-03-12
    It was the turning point in the long campaign for free speech: 'Obscenity cases normally took no account of whether or not a jury had actually read the book ...
  • Prfire: Top 10 reasons to get a UK Visa. 2010-03-12
    Those who come to live in the UK will benefit from FREE medical care on the NHS, FREE protection from the Fire service and Police and FREE speech in ...
  • Daily Caller: Hail to the chief justice 2010-03-12
    The McCain-Feingold Act was one of the worst infringements of free speech since the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. In very practical term ...
  • Boston Globe: Court case is a fight against suppression of viewpoint 2010-03-12
    Driscoll, concerning the clash of state orthodoxies and free speech (“In appeal, lawyer asserts genocide teaching skewed: Says state pressured by Armeni ...
  • Seattle Post Intelligencer: The queer case of the cartoonist killer 2010-03-12
    On one side are those who believe free speech is a fundamental human right. On the other are those who believe that such a right ends as soon as the speech ...
  • SouthCoastToday.com: LETTER: Something's rotten at the market 2010-03-12
    There's a place for political free speech. But this isn't a matter of "free" speech. As a private enterprise, Shaw's and their management must OK all group ...
  • UW Badger Herald: An open letter to the UW campus 2010-03-12
    The Herald has always seen itself as a bastion of free speech, but we've also tried to serve as an extension of this community and the student body' ...
  • The Daily Princetonian: ODUS and USG jointly allocate funding 2010-03-12
    Dunne said the Projects Board and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students were primarily interested in maintaining students' rights to free speech.
  • Hartford Courant: Prison Officials Can Force Feed Inmate 2010-03-12
    ... argued during a five-day hearing last year that Coleman's right to privacy and free speech allowed him to refuse medical treatment.
  • Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Is health care right? 2010-03-12
    If we apply ideas behind rights to health care to my rights to speech or travel, my free speech rights would require government-imposed obligations ...
  • The Press Association: Judge rules Briton can be force-fed 2010-03-12
    "Neither the state or federal free speech guarantees allow Coleman to continue his hunger strike in contradiction to the penological needs of the prison"  ...
  • The Commercial Dispatch: More than 100 join lawsuit over school uniform policy 2010-03-12
    ... among other things, the dress code would decrease students' creativity and individuality, lessen their enthusiasm for learning and limit free speech.
  • The Associated Press: Conn. judge rules state can force-feed inmate 2010-03-12
    He says the feedings violate his free speech rights. The state began force-feeding Coleman in 2008 after he stopped accepting fluids.
  • Prescott Daily Courier: Editorial: Aim sign anger to do some good 2010-03-12
    First of all, we still have the First Amendment guarantee of free speech in this country, even unpopular speech. While we at the Courier don't like ...
  • Majority In Mississippi: The Last Word On The IAHS Prom Story 2010-03-12
    1) I understand a public school can not prohibit a female taking another female to prom in the name of free speech. Fine. I don't like th ...
  • IPWatchdog.com: The Right of Publicity: A Doctrine Gone Wild? 2010-03-12
    One defense that ETrade could raise would be parody since it is common practice – and a strongly protected free speech right – to make fun of people.
  • Westport Now: With Linxweiler Off P&Z Agenda, No Signs of Objection 2010-03-12
    Moeller and others say it was a matter of free speech. Corwin made no mention tonight of his action on the signs. “He wasn't waving it,” Moeller said ...
  • Charleston: W.Va. Senate OKs bill aimed at online bullies - Daily Mail 2010-03-12
    ... in e-mail or through other electronic means. Supporters of the bill say it doesn't abridge free speech because it exempts comments that simply criticize.
  • Tips-Q GLBT News: Commentary: The heavy weight of free speech 2010-03-12
    It's also ironic that virulent opponents of homosexuality want to hide behind a Supreme Court precedent that extended free-speech protections to smutty ...
  • Miami New Times: String of Swastika Symbols Found on University of Miami Campus 2010-03-12
    Though, that school's president, Bernie Machen, defended the symbol closely associated with Hitler's Nazi Germany on the grounds of free speech.
  • Rocky Mount Telegram: Muslim fashion conquers Europe 2010-03-12
    Designer Melih Kesmen became fed up with the anti-Muslim stereotypes that sprang up over the protests as well as the rioters' attempts to stifle free speech ...
  • The Colorado Statesman: Candidate search draws huge crowd 2010-03-12
    ... building by law enforcement officers — but it appeared that only one woman, who demanded to have her “free speech” rights respected, was asked to leave.
  • Advocate.com: Westboro Baptist Church Goes to Washington 2010-03-12
    As Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church prepare to stand before the Supreme Court and defend their right to free speech, Fred's estranged ...
  • Cleburne Times-Review: Don Newbury: Time to sign off on late-night TV 2010-03-12
    Stated simply, they've both dealt loosely with free speech, inflicted much hurt, ignored propriety, and simply gotten off track as to what humor should be.
  • WISN Milwaukee: Silent Protest Commences On UWM's Campus 2010-03-12
    "We're outside protesting the stripping of our rights to free speech on campus here," said UWM student Azad Safavi. Meanwhile, four students who ...
  • Foreign Affairs: The Cartoons That Shook the World 2010-03-12
    Seeing this, other voices championed free speech and evoked the threat of an Islamicized Europe. Klausen, a Danish political scientist at Brande ...
  • Sheboygan News: Judge Refuses To Allow Watchdogs To Help Defend Suits 2010-03-12
    Both suits claim the law violates the 1st Amendment right of free speech. Under the new law, candidates for the high court get $100000 in tax money ...
  • Television Broadcast: Court Upholds Program Access Rules 2010-03-12
    “I readily concede that the First Amendment rights of a Cablevision or ESPN do not tug at the free speech heartstrings in the same way as the iconic ...
  • The American Lawyer: Third Circuit is Free Speech Central 2010-03-12
    We are endlessly fascinated by the intersection of free speech and schools, so we're jealous of our Philadelphia-based colleagues at The Legal Intelligencer ...
  • Minneapolis Star Tribune: Something WRONG with this picture 2010-03-12
    No dissent or free speech allowed. 3. Jordan- Jews cannot own property or become citizens of this primarily “Palestinian” nation. 4.
  • Wellesley Townsman: Battling bullying in Wellesley 2010-03-12
    “Schools have limited jurisdiction for speech that occurs off campus,” Englander said “It's very complicated because there are free speech issues that come ...
  • Helium: Should broadcast media be subject to a "Fairness Doctrine" ? 2010-03-12
    Such broad guidelines on content are tantamount to restricting the right to free speech. The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
  • Ghana News: NPP-USA: Ghana is Going Downhill Under NDC 2010-03-12
    When the Kufuor administration quickly eliminated the Criminal Libel law to pave the way for unfettered free speech, it was the same NDC functionaries th ...
  • BusinessWeek: Moody's, S&P Are Job Creators Without a Stimulus: Ann Woolner 2010-03-12
    Rating firms have for years claimed a First Amendment shield against such cases, saying that free-speech protections apply to their opinions.
  • Undercurrent: Thank God for maimed soldiers 2010-03-12
    Where should right of expression and free speech end? Many would argue the line should be drawn when undue harm or suffering is inflicted upon others.
  • Linex Legal: Swan Turton > Culture Media and Sport Committee Report on Press Standards 2010-03-12
    ... reputation of the UK in the eyes of Americans in particular as being a place where libel tourists could undermine the USA's commitment to free speech.
  • KGMI: Children Turn To Inhaling To Het High 2010-03-12
    The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether constitutional free-speech rights protected anti-gay protests by members of a Kansas church.
  • Philadelphia Bulletin: Cybersecurity A Concern For Asian Businesses 2010-03-12
    There is an important question of free speech here. If this principle passes, then the Web, as we know it, will cease to exist," Yeah, right!
  • Gaston Gazette: Rep. Bill Current criticized for comments about women's history event 2010-03-12
    I think an issue like this is free speech. We can still talk in this country.” The NC Council for Women, one of the groups working to organize the women' ...
  • KEZI TV: Pacifica Forum Moved Off Main Campus 2010-03-12
    ... as a result of forum speakers' comments. But free-speech advocates have said forum speakers should be allowed to have their say on a public college campus.
  • Sun Shopper: Congress School District sues to stop public records requests 2010-03-12
    ... negate the public records law, negate the First Amendment right to free speech and eliminate public participation for fear of being sued," Sitren said.
  • Courthouse News Service: Lesbian Student Sues Over Canceled Prom 2010-03-12
    (CN) - An 18-year-old lesbian in Itawamba County claims her high school violated her free-speech rights by cancelling the prom after she asked to take her ...
  • Christian Web News: Another City Outlaws Home Bible Studies 2010-03-12
    Blomberg adds that “the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause prevents the town from stopping the church from holding its meetings on the public sidewalk ...
  • Inside NoVA: Rishell Guest Column: Power, money and our future 2010-03-12
    Individuals and small businesses will not be able to purchase an equivalent amount of "free speech." How much money will powerful industries like banking ...
  • KGMI: New York's "Ground Zero" Workers Reach Deal On Claims 2010-03-12
    The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether constitutional free-speech rights protected anti-gay protests by members of a Kansas church.
  • New York Times: China Warns Google Again After CEO's Remarks 2010-03-12
    ... brusquely after the secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a February speech, chided the Chinese government for restricting free speech online.
  • Salt Lake Tribune: Independent panel gets OK, cap on gifts fails 2010-03-12
    "Contribution caps failed because of a concern about First Amendment free speech issues," Valentine said, noting that the recent US Supreme Court ruling ...

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