First Amendment and Technology - Professor Hillary Greene
Professor Hillary Greene of the University of Connecticut School of Law participates in panel 2 the 2015 JBTL Symposium, "The Impact of the First Amendment on American Businesses." Panel 2...
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Despite First Amendment, Religious Freedom Has Not Been Easy in America
Religious freedom laws sponsored by opponents of same-sex marriage in Indiana, Arkansas and other states have recently triggered fierce protests from gay rights groups that have led lawmakers...
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What your Church leaders and politicians should be warning you about the Kenyan massacre
Craig speaks about the massacre of 147 Christians executed in Kenya just days before Easter. How it showcases the wisdom and anointing of our Founding Fathers creating the First Amendment....
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Xxplosive - First Amendment Ft. Von Aizen Metaphaurus
The bro First Amendment rappin over a classic West Coast beat (No Copyright Infringement intended) Follow dude on his social media https://soundcloud.com/firstamendmenthiphop https://twitter.com/1 ...
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FIRST AMENDMENT TEST: DEA Headquarters
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Defensible Sign Regulations - Introduction
This course provides a brief overview of typical sign regulations, discusses how the First Amendment affects local sign ordinances, and, finally, recommends sign regulations that conform to...
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Officer Denies First Amendment Rights
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Artists Art law News USA Appellate court upholds First Amendment rights but encourages stricter privacy laws in future
By Julia Halperin. Web only Published online: 10 April 2015
A New York appellate court has reluctantly upheld the rights of the photographer Arne Svenson to exhibit and sell photographs he took of his neighbours without their permission. The unanimous decision by a seven-judge panel is a win for First Amendment advocates. But the court itself seemed uneasy about its conclusion, calling the photographs disturbing and encouraging the local government to expand privacy laws that would curtail similar work in the future.
Svensons series The Neighbours, shown at New Yorks Julie Saul Gallery in 2013, captured the daily lives of residents of a downtown luxury apartment building as they ate breakfast, scrubbed their floors and watched television. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, is due to open an exhibition of The Neighbours in February 2016. One work from the series is in the collection of Harvard Business School.
The artist, who has likened himself to a bird watcher, monitored his neighbours for more than one year and took thousands of photographs of them with a telephoto lens. (He also consulted a privacy lawyer and watched the Hitchcock film Rear Window four times.)
Two residents of the building, Martha and Matthew Foster, sued Svenson after they saw an image of their young children published in a local newspaper article about the series.
A state appellate court reinforced a lower trial courts decision to dismiss the case on 9 April. The judges concluded that Svensons First Amendment rights as an artist outweighed the familys right to privacy in a city as dense as New York.
Unsettled by the images, the judges also encouraged the state to expand its privacy laws. Many people would be rightfully offended by the intrusive manner in which the photographs were taken, Judge Renwick wrote. In these times of heightened threats to privacy posed by new and ever more invasive technologies, we call upon the legislature to revisit this important issue, as we are constrained to apply the law as it exists.
Neither Svenson nor a lawyer for the Foster family immediately responded to a request for comment. Another exhibition of Svensons work is on view at Julie Saul Gallery until 30 May. The Workers, a sequel to The Neighbours, presents close-up images of men engaged in manual labour.
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RFRA and the First Amendment Explained for Small Business Owners - Can you turn away business?
http://businessinbluejeans.com http://samventola.com In this informative webinar, small business expert and marketing consultant, Susan Baroncini-Moe, and attorney at law and First Amendment...
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David A. Schulz 78 J.D., a leading First Amendment lawyer who has defended the rights of journalists and news organizations for more than 30 years, has been named clinical lecturer in law and co-director of the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) at Yale Law School.
This full-time appointment, which becomes effective on July 1, was made possible through the financial support of the Stanton Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, including recent gifts of $828,600 from each foundation.
We are thrilled that David has accepted this position and that the MFIA Clinic is now poised to have an even greater impact protecting investigative reporting and the publics right of access to information, said Yale Law School Dean Robert C. Post 77 J.D.
Prior to this appointment, Schulz was the Floyd Abrams Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He has supervised students in the MFIA Clinic since it began in 2009.
The addition of Schulz as a full-time director will enable the MFIA Clinic to expand its reach by taking on more cases with a longer view of pursuing litigation to establish precedents that will protect the rights of investigative reporters. It will also help leverage the clinics expertise through joint efforts with other organizations supporting open government.
Now that David is with us full-time, Yale is going to produce a new generation of first-rate legal advocates devoted to the protection of press freedoms, said Jack Balkin, the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, who co-directs the MFIA clinic with Schulz. His efforts here will have beneficial effects for many years to come.
Schulz has litigated issues concerning government secrecy in many contexts. He was tapped to provide advice on the WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden disclosures, has pursued reporters access rights at Guantanamo Bay, and has represented a number of journalists in federal leak investigations. Most recently, he has represented news organizations asserting a constitutional right to inspect and copy videotape evidence of the forced feedings of a Guantanamo detainee, which was introduced in a habeas proceeding alleging that the techniques used amounted to torture.
MFIA was established in 2009 by a group of Yale Law School students and since then has provided pro bono representation to clients on a diverse array of matters touching on issues of transparency, free speech, and press freedom. The clinic is dedicated to increasing government transparency, defending the essential work of news gatherers, and protecting freedom of expression through impact litigation, direct legal services, and policy work. It is part of the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression, which is affiliated with and administered by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. It believes that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged.
The Stanton Foundation was created by Frank Stanton, the president of CBS from 1946 to 1971. Among his accomplishments at the networks helm, Stanton initiated the first televised presidential debates the famous Kennedy-Nixon Great Debates, developing a format that subsequently became a staple of electoral politics. The foundations interests include classic and 21st-century First Amendment issues and the larger challenge of creating a better-informed citizenry.
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After a vigorous debate over the scope of the First Amendment and whether corporations should have the same rights as people, the Maryland Senate gave preliminary approval Tuesday to ajoint resolution calling for a national constitutional convention to deal with the issueof money in politics.
Senators moved the joint resolution toward a final vote after rejecting several Republican amendmentson votes that showed the measure likely has more than enough votes to pass. It would still have to get through the House by next Monday to go into effect.
According to the liberal group Progressive Maryland, Maryland would join four other Democratic-leaning states that have issued a call for the a convention to deal with such Supreme Court rulings as the Citizens United decision in which justices extended the same political contribution rights to corporations as held by individuals.
While the U.S. Constitution provides a mechanism for convening a convention, it requires two-thirds of the state legislatures to issue such a call for the same purpose. With the bar set that high, there has been no constitutional convention since 1787.
Proponents said such a resolutionis needed to pressureCongress to deal with the growing influence of money in politics before it stifles democracy. But opponents warned against calling a convention that could narrow the First Amendment and rewrite the Constitutionin ways that couldn't be predicted.
Fred Wertheimer, a veteran advocate of campaign finance reform, weighed in late Tuesday with a warning that Maryland lawmakers were heading in the wrong direction. Wertheimer, a former president of Common Cause who now heads the group Democracy 21, pointed to comments by Supreme Court justices that nothing could restrict what a convention might do once one was convened.
"The call of a convention would place all of the constitutional rights of individuals up for grabs: protections for civil rights, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, voting, privacy and many others," he said. "Also up for grabs would be the role of the courts in protecting the rights of individuals and minority interests."
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SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - A Bible in the Caddo Parish Clerk of Court office had to be removed because it violated the First Amendment.
When Randall Lord asked a Bible to be removed from the Caddo Parish Clerk of Court office nearly a decade ago, he never thought he'd have to ask again.
"I sent an email to Caddo Parish attorney, at the time, Charles Grubb to ask that it be removed," said Lord.
But when Lord walked back into the Clerk of Court office recently he noticed the Bible was back.
"This violates the first amendment in that it's promoting a religion. Our government is not supposed to be in the business of promoting religion," he said.
According to the 1st amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the bible violates the establishment clause, which prohibits the U.S. government from endorsing any one religion.
"I don't have anything against any religion being a part of our community or being displayed, but the way it's being displayed is improper. If other religions are included along with the display there would be no issue here," said Lord.
Not long after KSLA News 12 obtained video of the Bible, it had been replaced with a Webster's Dictionary of similar size.
Caddo Parish Clerk of Court Chief Deputy Mike Spence says the Bible was returned to it's original location, away from public display.
"We're not here to cause controversy," said Spense."We're just here to store records and keep the courts going."
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First Amendment and Technology - Professor Felix Wu
Professor Felix Wu of Yeshiva University #39;s Cardozo School of Law participates in panel 2 the 2015 JBTL Symposium, "The Impact of the First Amendment on American Businesses." Panel 2 discussed...
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First Amendment and Technology - Professor Neil Richards
Professor Neil Richards of Washington University #39;s School of Law participates in panel 2 the 2015 JBTL Symposium, "The Impact of the First Amendment on American Businesses." Panel 2 discussed...
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Religious Freedom Laws: First Amendment Right or Discrimination?
Indiana isn #39;t the only state in the hot seat over Religious Freedom Restoration Acts. People across the nation are protesting for and against RFRA #39;s. While the laws have been around for years,...
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The outcry over Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act is proof positive that the First Amendment's protection against government abridgment of the free exercise of religion by each citizen is endangered.
The loud, whining demands that the law be "fixed" or repealed fly in the face of a commitment to individual freedom to believe and live as one's conscience dictates.
The homosexual community and its supporters would say the belief that marriage can exist only between a man and a woman is archaic, simple-minded, hateful and any number of other pejoratives (even though it was the universally accepted view until very recently).
But, the First Amendment was written by those who sought to protect just such beliefs from government interference and compulsion. It is precisely those individually held beliefs in conflict with the politically astute and those who can militate such public demonstrations that most need First Amendment protection.
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act prohibits government actions that substantially burden one's exercise of his or her religion. How can someone argue with that? Only those who decide that my religious beliefs are invalid can take such a position.
As long as the First Amendment protection (as embodied in the RFRA) prevails, neither the government nor any individual has the right to dictate those beliefs to me or to any gay, lesbian or other person, regardless of the unpopularity of the beliefs.
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RTDNF 2015 First Amendment Awards Pre Dinner.
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Nicholas P. Frye Associates Reviews
This is a review of Nicholas P. Frye Associates. This is published pursuant to the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
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