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11 Apr 2012, 3:01 am
Not ever on Gary Circle in Westboro (Massachusetts) or on Woodland Avenue in Rhode Island did anyone in the Lombardi family ever think of committing a terrorist acts. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 3:57 pm
As you can see, if the Westboro Baptist Church is able to get away with the crap they are spewing, chances are that Wallace's racist ravings aren't going to be that big of an issue as far as the First Amendment's protections are concerned. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 10:33 am
Snyder is the father of Matthew Snyder, a soldier killed in Iraq whose funeral was picketed by Fred Phelps and his followers at the infamous Westboro Baptist Church. [read post]
28 Mar 2022, 5:01 am
Supreme Court concluded the "content" of Westboro's signs plainly related to broad issues of interest to society at large, rather than matters of "purely private concern. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 6:50 am
Phelps, the Fourth Circuit ruled on Friday that Albert Snyder, the father of a Marine killed in Iraq, must pay Westboro Baptist Church, the group that protested his son’s funeral, $16,500 in legal fees. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 6:54 am
” Devin Dwyer of ABC News reports that leaders of the Westboro Baptist Church have “vowed to ‘quadruple’ the number of protests at military funerals around the country” in light of the Court’s ruling, but Joan Biskupic and Kevin Johnson of USA Today note that “veterans groups and other opponents [are] vowing to step up efforts to block church followers from demonstrating at high-profile funerals and interfering with grieving military families. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 4:15 am
Phelps, which threw out an intentional infliction of emotional distress verdict against the Westboro Baptist Church on First Amendment grounds because, as the Court summarized, “Simply put, the church members had the right to be where they were. [read post]
13 Apr 2021, 9:41 am
Furthermore, the infamous Westboro Baptist Church was found to be protected under the First Amendment in Snyder v. [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 9:28 am
Earlier this year, for example, the ACLU filed an amicus brief successfully urging the Supreme Court to overturn a jury verdict against the Westboro Baptist Church for promoting their homophobic message during a peaceful protest at a military funeral. [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 6:59 am
Absent that, counterspeech – exposing and shaming imposters – is the proper remedy for their offensive expression, and we know that the right to offend is alive and well, as the Court’s ruling in the Westboro Baptist Church case of Snyder v. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 12:20 am
., Westboro Baptist Church who, seeking to spread the word that God is punishing America for its acceptance of homosexuality, have shown up at funerals with signs carrying messages such as "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" and "God Hates You. [read post]
21 Oct 2022, 5:01 am
Phelps (2011) (holding that the First Amendment shielded members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, from tort liability to a grieving military family for publicly expressing their view that the United States is overly tolerant of the gay community, and particularly of gay service members, and that God kills American soldiers as punishment, through picketing the funeral services of the family's departed loved one in Maryland employing similarly pejorative language). [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 3:00 am
Phelps, also in 2011, the court said the hateful protests of Westboro Baptist Church were protected. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 4:22 am
In this regular feature we draw attention to the last week’s law and media news and next week’s upcoming events. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 1:51 pm
Phelps, better known as the Westboro Baptist Church case, in which the Supreme Court overturned an intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED) verdict arising from the church’s bigoted and nonsensical protest of a soldier’s funeral. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 1:08 pm
Phelps, a case in which the Westboro Baptist Church (consisting of approximately 50 Phelps family members and a few others) used a fallen marine’s funeral to further their message that “God Hates Fags” and the United States is being punished for tolerating homosexuality by, among other things, losing soldiers in Iraq. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 5:20 am
Think crush videos and Westboro Baptist Church. [read post]
19 Dec 2017, 3:08 pm
At oral argument two weeks ago in Masterpiece Cakeshop, the Justices did not appear to be taken with any of the unconvincing distinctions that the bakery’s counsel and the U.S. [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 7:20 pm
(This post is based on a talk I gave at the Seton Hall Legislative Journal’s symposium on Bullying and the Social Media Generation. [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 9:00 pm
I can think right off the bat of two First Amendment cases, the one you mentioned earlier that's being argued Wednesday involving the Westboro Baptist minister who has been picketing the funerals of members of the military who died in Iraq or Afghanistan. [read post]
