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2 Aug 2018, 11:54 am by Eugene Volokh
If the government wanted to ban physical objects with electronics and moving parts when they contained (or displayed) pictures of Mohammed, or of a burning flag, or of white people in blackface, that would violate the First Amendment because the restriction is applied because of what the physical objects communicate to people. [read post]
21 Oct 2024, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
The Supreme Court and other institutions of American government and civil society were largely timid in the face of McCarthyism.With the civil rights movement, progressives embraced free speech, but even then, it was not until 1965, in Lamont v. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 9:36 am by Eugene Volokh
The tendency of speech to offend people is not treated as a secondary effect, and neither is the tendency of speech to cause harms that flow from such offense — for instance, potential fights, R.A.V. v. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 11:12 am by Ashoka Mukpo
As months of a painful COVID-19 lockdown gave way to incandescent fury over the killing of Floyd and the violent response of the Minneapolis Police Department towards the initial protests, a few people went as far as burning police precincts or destroying upscale shopping districts. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 3:27 am by SHG
There are varying classes of people subject to the ban. [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 7:14 am by Venkat Balasubramani
(See Nurse Properly Fired and Denied Unemployment Due to Facebook Rant and Employee’s Twitter Rant Means He Doesn’t Get Unemployment Benefits–Burns v. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 5:58 pm
 Thus, a law that targets the communicative element of flag burning violates the First Amendment (as the Court held in Texas v. [read post]
21 Aug 2012, 12:56 pm by Eugene Volokh
This distinguishes classic extortion, where I ask you for $10,000 not to burn down your store: Because I have a legal obligation not to burn down your store, it’s easy to explain why extortionate threats to burn down the store would be punishable. [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 5:04 pm by INFORRM
This distinguishes classic extortion, where I ask you for $10,000 not to burn down your store: Because I have a legal obligation not to burn down your store, it’s easy to explain why extortionate threats to burn down the store would be punishable. [read post]