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(Oxnard PD) First Amendment Audit

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Book Talk with Professor Tamara Piety
Tamara Piety, Phyllis Hurley Frey Professor of Law at The University of Tulsa College of Law, gives a public Book Talk on her recent book, Brandishing the First Amendment: Commercial Expression...

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Zick: Twitter and foreign policy
W M professor of law Timothy Zick, author of "The Cosmopolitan First Amendment," discusses establishment of in-country social networks as a prong of U.S. foreign policy.

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James Foley needed to show people what war looked like.

It was his calling to travel to some of the most dangerous places in the world, camera in tow, so people back home could see the danger, the conflict, the hatred that boiled over daily. ... Subscribe or log in to read more

James Foley needed to show people what war looked like.

It was his calling to travel to some of the most dangerous places in the world, camera in tow, so people back home could see the danger, the conflict, the hatred that boiled over daily.

More than any adrenaline rush, he was drawn to these regions out of his compassion for the poor, the disadvantaged and the innocent in war-torn regions, his parents said.

The more Jim saw, the more he was drawn to it, his mother, Diane Foley, said.

Last night, James Foley was honored with the Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment Award, one of the highest honors for New Hampshire journalists.

Were very honored. I think Jim would have been, his mother said. Jim believed very passionately for freedom of the press. We are very proud of the work he was doing. It is vital to a democracy.

Foley was kidnapped Nov. 22, 2012, in Syria and killed 21 months later, Aug. 19, by Islamic State forces.

His murder was broadcast for the world to see and began to galvanize U.S. efforts to stop terrorists known as ISIS.

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James Foley posthumously receives First Amendment Award

Slain New Hampshire journalist James Foley was honored Wednesday night in Manchester with the Nackey Loeb School of Communications First Amendment Award.

Foley was reporting in Syria in 2012 when he was captured. The terror group ISIS executed Foley in August.

Foleys parents accepted the award on his behalf.

Obviously, were very honored, said Diana Foley, his mother. Jim was very passionate about freedom of the press. Thats why he risked his life to be in Syria. He wanted the world to know about the suffering in Syria.

Nicolas Henin, a French freelance journalist and a fellow cellmate for seven months with James Foley, is visiting the Foleys family and was at the awards ceremony. He said Foley was a humble man who did not seek out the kind of honors he received.

We were about two dozen men held together in a teeny, teeny room, and of course that does not happen without conflict. But James was the one in our group who managed to stay friends with every single one of us, Henin said.

Joe McQuaid, president of the Loeb School, said Foleys work and sacrifice made the choice of naming him the First Amendment winner easy.

This young man had been a teacher and he wanted to do more than teach. He wanted to tell the stories of oppressed people, McQuaid said.

James Foleys parents have established the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation to help support families of hostages. His father said James Foley set an example of caring for his fellow man, and they will strive every day to follow his example.

His courage, his commitment and his compassion challenge us all to make something good out of something that was horrible, said John Foley, his father.

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TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously rejected a Republican political consultants efforts to keep his redistricting records private, promising to give the public its first glimpse of documents that helped lead to the states congressional districts being thrown out this summer.

While different justices signed onto two separate opinions about the case, both found that Pat Bainter and his consulting firm, Data Targeting, Inc., waited too long to claim that releasing some of the documents would violate his First Amendment rights.

The documents were requested by voting-rights organizations challenging the states congressional districts.

Writing for five members of the court, Justice Barbara Pariente used unusually harsh language to paint Bainters efforts as part of a months-long stalling tactic as the battle over the congressional map played out in a Leon County court.

We simply do not countenance and will not tolerate actions during litigation that are not forthright and that are designed to delay and obfuscate the discovery process, Pariente wrote.

In the opinion, the court ruled that Bainter tried for months to keep the documents shielded without saying that releasing them would violate his First Amendment rights. Bainter only made that claim after a Leon County judge held Bainter and the company in contempt, Pariente wrote.

By responding to the deposition questions and acknowledging discussions with other political consultants without ever revealing the true nature of those communications or asserting a First Amendment privilege, in conjunction with the failure to timely assert this qualified privilege after the deposition testimony and months of additional hearings, we conclude that Bainter waived his ability to later claim that the documents revealing these communications were privileged on that basis, Pariente wrote.

Joining Pariente in the opinion were Chief Justice Jorge Labarga and Justices R. Fred Lewis, Peggy Quince and James E.C. Perry. In a separate opinion, Justices Ricky Polston and Charles Canady supported the outcome. It was a rare, unified decision from a court that has often splintered on redistricting opinions.

The voting-rights groups, which include the League of Women Voters of Florida, argued that the Republican-dominated Legislature drew congressional districts that violated the anti-gerrymandering Fair Districts constitutional requirements, approved by voters in 2010.

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