Results for “First Evangelical Church”

as it did in most of the anti-war cases of the 1970s. But this was before the age of the internet. Everything would soon be different as technology changed the sounds and sights of expression—as well as the stakes involved in the debate over disseminating massive amounts of cla...

it will have far too much power over the content of what the media reports. 48 The First Amendment recognizes no distinction between the patriotic and unpatriotic

the speaker so deeply upsets or offends the person (or persons) to whom he is speaking that he reacts to the speech by attacking the speaker. This comes under the legal rubric of “fighting words”—words that cause the listener to fight back. The second is pro-active—that is

but I defended him on the ground that prosecuting these student censors was his duty in protecting the First Amendment:

you will rue the day that you ever thought that I would give you publicity because I will not stop condemning your organization and you know that the only condition that I will accept your case is because you have given me the freedom to argue with you

…calls and emails demanding that I sue them for defaming the Jewish people or committing a “blood libel.” But under our First Amendment only an individual can be defamed. There is no such thing as group libel. In other words you can say all you want about “the Jews

…ercising my own freedom of speech to criticize a judge for an opinion she wrote. This certainly made me appreciate our First Amendment. Here is the story:

when the media seeks to publish information—such as an excluded confession—that may prejudice a defendant’s right to a fair trial. A variation on this theme is the media’s refusal to publish the names of alleged rape victims

…ainst the fair trial rights of criminal defendants under the Sixth Amendment. I have generally been on the side of the First Amendment

… not for thee is a common limitation. Let me propose a test for my own readers to see whether you qualify to join “the First Amendment Club.”

the French philosopher Voltaire articulated the fundamental premise underlying true support for freedom of speech: “I disapprove of what you say

…r limit the death penalty. This began more than a half century ago when I was a law clerk responsible for drafting the first judicial opinion challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty as “cruel and unusual punishment.”

it held that a condemned person’s constitutional rights were not violated “by permitting the jury to impose the death penalty without any governing standards” or by permitting the imposition of the death penalty in “the same proceeding and verdict as determined

…r intended to kill. Most of these non-triggermen had been convicted of murder on the basis of two legal fictions. The first was the law of conspiracy under which each member of a conspiracy is deemed to have committed every crime actually committed by any co-conspirator 58 (R...

which now might be 5-4 against us. And the large number of condemned inmates who faced execution on a theory similar to that which had lead the sentencing judge in Arizona to sentence the Tison brothers to die even though they had not killed the Lyons family or intended their de...