September 11, 2014
Can someone be arrested for speaking too long at a public meeting?
An activist was arrested at a city council meeting for exceeding the time limit. It’s very loosely enforced by the…
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August 15, 2014
Can businesses ban Google Glass?
Can businesses ban customers from wearing Google Glass while on their premises? So, not simply banning video recording, but the…
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June 11, 2014
Are there legal actions to protect community newspaper against harassment, threats?
I volunteer to help run a small community newspaper. Before we went to print on our first issue, we started receiving bashings…
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November 11, 2013
Rights threatened by trade associations for voicing opposition to bill they favor
At the CA Legislature, I introduced myself as a member of of two realtor associations before speaking out in opposition…
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October 18, 2013
Each year police place greater limitations on my annual protest
In October of 2012 I conducted a month long protest at the Capitol in Sacramento. I was arrested immediately because…
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October 17, 2013
What are the rules regarding free speech and highway signage?
Our organization is the primary voice working in opposition against a state plan that we believe will have terrible environmental…
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September 18, 2013
How do we respond to government harassment of our protest?
We had some 15 protesters on a public passage that is a footpath over a major frwy. A government entity…
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August 15, 2013
Right to online publication of events at my preschool
After dismissing a 3-year-old student for extremely bad behavior, the child’s parent retaliated by adding my business to several consumer websites…
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June 10, 2013
1st amendment right to porn denied by senior center
My local city-run senior center censors books, magazines, films, internet and bulletin-board postings.
Though it is a senior center, they…
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May 17, 2013
Can an individual publish a legal notice in a newspaper??
Is there any legal reason why an individual would not be allowed to place a paid legal notice in a…