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2 Mar 2011, 8:37 pm by Timothy P. Flynn
  Westboro’s funeral picketing is certainly hurtful and its contribution to public discourse may be negligible….Speech is powerful. [read post]
16 Mar 2010, 5:54 pm by Howard Wasserman
Phelps, the funeral-picketing, tort-liability case against Westboro Baptist Church, on which SCOTUS granted cert last week. [read post]
8 Jun 2007, 1:55 am
The Baltimore Examiner reports that on Monday, a Maryland federal district court refused to dismiss a defamation suit against the Topeka, Kansas Westboro Baptist Church, its leader Rev. [read post]
This talk features Megan Phelps-Roper and Brittan Heller in discussion about Phelps-Roper's new book Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. [read post]
9 Dec 2010, 10:09 am by annalthouse@gmail.com (Ann Althouse)
If you're trying to fathom the twisted reasoning behind picketing Elizabeth Edwards' funeral (by the Westboro Baptist Church), the hateful text is here.blog advertising blog advertising [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 8:52 am
In a decision issued Tuesday, the Kansas Supreme Court invalidated the state statute enacted in response to the controversial tactics of the Westboro Baptist Church, which has used protests at the funerals of soldiers killed in the Iraq war to... [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 7:41 am by constitutional lawblogger
Under the organization of the Westboro Baptist Church, consisting of Phelps and his family, the message of Phelps'... [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 12:55 pm by Rick.Hasen@lls.edu
I'm less convinced, especially if (as I do) one views the Westboro Church's speech as political speech.... [read post]
10 Oct 2010, 4:00 pm by Media Law Prof
Some background on free speech, free thoughts, and the Westboro Baptist Church and its members, whence the current free speech case before the U.S. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 6:07 am by firstamendmentblogger
Phelps, to determine whether a $5 million verdict should be reinstated against members of the Westboro Baptist Church. [read post]
10 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Nonprofit Blogger
In 2013, the Obama White House Rejected a Proposal to Strip Westboro Baptist Church of its tax exempt status because it is a hate group. [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 10:24 am
Credit: Westboro Baptist Church The first Monday in October marks the opening of the 2010 term for the United States Supreme Court. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 3:27 am
CNN reports that a jury has awarded nearly $11 million to the family of a deceased Marine whose funeral was picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church (which somehow blames the deaths of American soldiers on the United States becoming more... [read post]
20 May 2021, 4:36 pm by Lindsay S. Smith
House Bill 1310 invites the Westboro Baptist Church to your neighborhood. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 10:16 am by Perry Dane
Phelps, the Westboro Baptist Church case. [read post]
4 Apr 2010, 9:07 am by The LBN Team
According to a Web site created in Snyder's honor, his relatives filed the civil lawsuit against the Westboro Baptist Church to "bring an end to the reign of terror and abuse that they inflicted" upon grieving families of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 2:25 pm by Tom Smith
As Thomas points out, it would be very odd for the Supreme Court to protect the right of members of the Westboro Baptist Church to carry signs saying, “God hates fags,” and the right of the Ku Klux Klan to burn 25-foot crosses, and yet rule that Phillips can’t politely decline to bake a cake. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 6:51 pm by Thaddeus Hoffmeister
Baltimore Sun: Westboro Baptist case: Juries on trial US News & World Report (blog): John Grisham Says Small Town Juries Too Easy to Sway Arizona Daily Star (blog): At the Courthouse: Juror commits big No-No Telegraph.co.uk: Amanda Knox juror: lack of motive sank case for Meredith Kercher ... [read post]
11 Jun 2011, 5:01 am by Glenn Reynolds
So obnoxious that that they could use lessons in civility from the Westboro Baptist Church. [read post]
4 Nov 2007, 5:52 pm
Tim Zick has an excellent CoOp overview of Westboro's practices and the legal responses to them. [read post]