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First Amendment cases can be tough. The unpopular opinion gets protected. That's the price of freedom. Okay, I get that.
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Interpreting freedom of speech The First Amendment to the Constitution assures our right to freedom of speech. In my opinion, and what appears plausible, flag burning or burning a Bible or Quran should not be considered a part of that freedom. It is an act, not a verbal statement. Therefore it should be treated as an act of violence.
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In an attempt to soften criticism following controversial comments he made about Osama bin Laden, Rashard Mendenhall offered a sweeping explanation Wednesday and said his comments were "misconstrued. The Steelers running back closed with an apology to anyone he offended with remarks that mushroomed into a national story. He said he was encouraging freedom of opinion on his Twitter account a" not stir anti-American sentiment a" when he questioned the widespread celebrations that took place following the killing of bin Laden during a U.S. military operation.
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Despite Dupre's rather obvious thesis that public school First Amendment cases are "rife with complexity and controversy" (p. 237), her book should be considered for either required or secondary reading in media and society and media law courses because of its breadth, depth, and illumination, in some places rising to the level of legal affairs reporting that Nina Totenberg does for National Public Radio. Over Justice Hugo Black's objection that "taxpayers send children to school on the premise that, at their age, they need to learn, not teach," Justice Abe Fortas wrote famously in the majority opinion that neither students nor teachers "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
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The paper examines provisions of the Second Amendment to the 1945 Indonesian Constitution dealing with equality, women's rights, freedom of religion and freedom of opinion, and then compares the terms of those provisions with similar provisions in the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights, the Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights (UIDHR) and the constitutions of several majority Muslim nations. On the basis that, unlike the Cairo Declaration, the UIDHR and the other constitutions, the Indonesian constitutional provisions make no explicit reference to Shari'ah or Islam despite the fact that Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world, the author concludes that Indonesian political parties who participated in enacting the amendments adhere to a substantive view of the Shari'...
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Corporations cannot use a "personal privacy" exemption in responding to a Freedom of Information request, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. Its unanimous opinion, issued last week, reverses a lower court in Philadelphia that sided with AT&T in a 2009 case in which the Dallas-based communications corporation tried to block the release of communications with the Federal Communications Commission related to alleged over billing of a Connecticut public school district.
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GENEVA, April 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Association of World Citizens, the Association for World Education and the International Humanist and Ethical Union will sponsor a discussion on "Apostasy, Human Rights, Religion and Belief," at the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Palais des Nations, Gate 40, Room XXI, on Wed, April 7, from 1:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. A 3:30 p.m. press conference at the UN Press Room 2 will follow. Speakers will include Ibn Warraq, a secularist Muslim intellectual; Younas Sheikh, a Pakistani doctor, human rights and peace activist; Shafique Keshavjee, a Swiss pastor and author; and Paul Cook, a representative of the Barnabas Fund (UK).
