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California: ‘Free spirit’ claims First Amendment protection in signing traffic ticket ‘Love Heals!’

donal brown April 27, 2012

A Marin County man, who goes by the name of Sierra Tunafish George Salin, found that the El Dorado County highway patrol were not amused by his signing his traffic ticket “LoveHeals!” They issued a warrant for his arrest. “This is a basic judicial impingement of my First Amendment free speech and expression, and a waste of the judicial system,” wrote Salin in an email. “There is a big difference between a name, and a

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First Amendment: Prom dress put on rack for resembling Confederate flag

donal brown April 26, 2012

School administrators were right to bounce a Tennessee high school student from her prom for wearing a dress resembling a Confederate flag, argues Ken Paulson for the First Amendment Center. Paulson said the school administrators were acting on the reality that the Confederate flag is divisive and could easily lead to disruption at the prom. -db From a commentary for the First Amendment Center, April 25, 2012, by Ken Paulson. Full story  

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Federal court rules against policeman protesting arrest quotas

donal brown April 23, 2012

A New York policeman who criticized the quota system for arrests lost his case in federal district court. The man claimed the police department violated his First Amendment rights by retaliating against him for criticizing the quota system to commanding officers, but the judge ruled that under the Supreme Court ruling Garcetti v. Ceballos pubic employees have no free speech rights in the context of their official duties.-db From the First Amendment Center, April 20,

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Kentucky: Federal appeals court denies teacher’s unusual defamation claim

donal brown April 19, 2012

The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals took a dim view of the claims by a former Kentucky teacher that a principal had committed “libel by pantomime” by escorting her out of the building when she protested that she was not allowed a representative at a meeting. She claimed that escorting her out of the building would lead those observing to think she had done something wrong. -db From the First Amendment Center, April 19,

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