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Supreme Court lets stand lower court ruling that Illinois need not offer ‘Choose Life’ license plates

donal brown October 6, 2009

The Supreme Court rejected a free speech claim from Choose Life Illinois Inc. upholding an appellate court ruling that the plate would have given the impression that Illinois was taking sides in the abortion controversy. -DB Boston Tribune By David G. Savage October 5, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Illinois need not offer “Choose Life” license plates to motorists, under a ruling the Supreme Court let stand today. The justices turned down a free-speech claim from

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Pittsburgh accused of trampling First Amendment at G-20 meetings

donal brown October 6, 2009

The Legal Director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania says that the Pittsburgh police transformed the city into a police state during the recent G-20 Summit, shutting down dissent with tactics reminiscent of repression methods used in communist Poland in the early 1980s. -DB JURIST Opinion October 06, 2009 By Witold Walczak Law enforcement officials have, over the past decade, used gatherings of national and international leaders as license to suspend civil liberties.

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Pro sports’ bans on Twitter could provoke First Amendment protest

donal brown October 6, 2009

Professional athletes filling time around games by tweeting whatever was on their minds, some of it critical, are now facing rules restricting their freedom. Questions  remain about whether the bans violate the free speech rights of the athletes and whether they even care enough to challenge the bans. -DB The Dallas Morning News Opinion October 5, 2009 By Kevin Sherrington In the wake of insubordinate comments made recently on Twitter accounts, please match the coach to

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Anti-SLAPP law used against citizens legislature intended to protect

donal brown October 5, 2009

The Redding Record Searchlight says that when Shasta County uses an anti-SLAPP law to sue a citizen seeking redress of grievance, it constitutes a regrettable development for a law intended to protect the right of citizens to speak out on controversial issues. -DB The Redding Record Searchlight Opinion October 5, 2009 Leave it to the lawyers. In 1992, the state passed a law aimed at protecting citizens who speak their minds on controversial issues from expensive,

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FBI searches house of man arrested for using Twitter to coordinate protests in Pittsburgh

donal brown October 5, 2009

The FBI last Thursday spent 16 hours searching the Queens house of a man arrested in Pittsburgh on September 24 at the Group of 20 summit. The man, who claims to be an anarchist, is facing criminal charges of helping  protesters avoid arrest after they were ordered to disperse. -DB The New York Times October 5, 2009 By Colin Moynihan As demonstrations have evolved with the help of text messages and online social networks, so too

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