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Court Flouts First Amendment, OKs Libraries’ Internet Censorship Scheme

4/13/2012

Author: 

Emma Llansó

Free Expression

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School district has to stop filtering web content

PFLAG v. Camdenton R–III School Dist., 2012 WL 510877 (W.D.Mo. Feb. 16, 2012) Several website publishers that provide supportive resources directed at lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth filed a First Amendment lawsuit against a school district over the district’s use of internet filtering software. Plaintiffs asked the court for an injunction against the [...]

Video: This Week in Law Episode 150

Had a great time hosting This Week in Law Episode 150, which we recorded on February 24. (Thanks to Denise Howell for handing over the hosting reins while she was off for the week.) It was a really fun conversation with three very smart panelists — Mike Godwin, Greg Sergienko and Jonathan Frieden. We talked [...]

Is Regulating ‘Indecent’ Broadcast Unconstitutional? SCOTUS Hears Case

1/10/2012

Author: 

Emma Llansó

Free Expression

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Is Regulating ‘Indecent’ Broadcast Unconstitutional? SCOTUS Hears Case

1/10/2012

Author: 

Emma Llansó

Free Expression

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SOPA Markup: Hail to the Nerds?

After more than 12 hours of debate on December 15 and 16 markup for the Stop Online Piracy Act (HR 3261), or SOPA, as it’s better known, about the only clear conclusion is the House Judiciary Committee is not made up of nerds, as member after mem…

ACLU in Court Today: Government Can’t Use Border Checks to Avoid the Bill of Rights

As alleged ‘Wikileak-er’ Pfc. Bradley Manning faces his highly anticipated hearing this week, the government will face its own hearing today in a suit brought by the ACLU’s Project on Speech, Privacy, and Technology and the ACLU of Ma…

Urge Congress to Stop SOPA!

The Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R. 3261), known as “SOPA,” is scheduled for consideration at a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow. The bill is aimed at taking down sites that allow Internet users to acquire pirated ver…

Oregon media shield law did not protect blogger from having to reveal her sources

Obsidian Finance Group, LLC v. Cox, 2011 WL 5999334 (D.Or. November 30, 2011) Plaintiff filed a defamation lawsuit against defendant, who self-identified as an “investigative blogger” and a member of the “media.” Defendant asked the court to protect her from having to turn over the identity of the sources she spoke with in connection with [...]

Free Speech Takes a Beating

The odds were stacked from the beginning at Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act.  Six witnesses were slated to testify and only one, Katherine Oyama, policy counsel for Google, was there t…

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