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A spot on Margaret Gilleo's leaf-scattered lawn is part of First Amendment history. As political signs of all stripes dominate the urban landscape from now until Election Day, it's that battle site that secured the right of homeowners to express themselves in plywood and cardboard.
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More important, the abdication of traditional Baptist principies on the part of fundamentalists associated with the Religious Right led to policies that compromised the disestablishment clause of the First Amendment: taxpayer vouchers for religious schools, public prayers in public schools, faith-based initiatives, and the display of religious sentiments in public spaces.113 The long sweep of American history, however, amply demonstrates the genius ofthe First Amendment, the grand experiment of constructing a government without the interlocking apparatus of an established religion.
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Introduction. I. The History of First Amendment Litigation Regarding Constitutionally Protected Speech in Public Schools. A. School Administrators and Officials are Increasingly Required to Meet an Insurmountable Burden to Repress Students' First Amendment Speech in the Face of Potential Dangers and Disruptions to the Scholastic Environment. II. The Frequency of Violent Public School Episodes Is Increasing at an Alarming Rate. A. Today's Public School Students Are Increasingly Insubordinate, Disrespectful and Violent Towards Both Other Students and the Faculty. III. School Officials Should Only Have to Demonstrate a Reasonable Likelihood of Material Disruption.
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A former Iowa law school dean faces a lawsuit brought by a teacher who claimed she was not hired because of her conservative political views. Citing a history of First Amendment retaliation claims, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals adopted a burden-shifting test from another circuit and noted that it was the court's "first opportunity to address a political discrimination claim.
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The history of the Supreme Court's First Amendment jurisprudence regarding the proper standard of protection for the free exercise of religion is complicated. In determining how the First Amendment speaks to situations in which generally applicable health, welfare, and safety laws incidentally or accidentally burden certain individuals' religious practices, the Court has vacillated between different standards and different extremes, overruling itself several times. Frustrated with Smith, Congress enacted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to overrule the Supreme Court and reinstate what it apparently thought was the "compelling interest" test as set forth in Sherbert and Yoder. Still, enormous unanswered definitional ambiguities exist with respect to RFRA. Because a true compe...
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Strother was turned away at first. Unaware of the new law, a reluctant election judge had to be shown a copy of the amendment before he let Strother cast his ballot. Strother's brother voted later that same day. Because the village held elections a day earlier than other places in the state and, as it turned out, most other towns in the country that year, El Paso officials assumed Strother was the first black to vote in the United States after the amendment was passed.
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Bellevue Baptist Church is coordinating a dozen community service projects today as part of its "Jesus Love Memphis" effort. About 20 area congregations are leading clean-up, paint-up, fix-up projects from Frayser to Hickory Hill. The morning projects will be followed by a lunch and prayer rally at Tiger Lane and the Liberty Bowl. To register or to get more information about individual service projects, visit jesuslovesmemphis.org. The University of Memphis will host the First Amendment Conference "Memphis and the Five Freedoms: A History of Music, Ministry and the Movement" on Nov. 3 from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. The 1 p.m. panel will be "Religious Freedom: What Does It Really Mean?" Panelists will be Rabbi Micah Greenstein of Temple Israel; Rev. Samuel Billy...
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As her champion tells the story, 13-year-old Amber Mangum had just been learning about the First Amendment in a history class. And the lesson was still fresh in her head when, after eating lunch on Sept. 14, the seventh grader picked up her own Bible to read at Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School - and a faculty member told her to put it away.
