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Animal rights protest near pet store upheld

FAC March 4, 2011

Animal-rights advocates can protest near a pet store, despite a shopping mall’s rules that would have limited access, a state appeals court ruled. The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles said the California constitution protects nondisruptive political activity at shopping centers. The Westside Pavilion mall in Los Angeles would have prevented Puppies Aren’t Products from protesting near the Barkworks Pup & Stuff store and would have banned protests entirely on busy shopping days,

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Court revives Chicago’s disorderly conduct law

FAC September 3, 2010

Two peace activists have lost a court battle to declare that Chicago’s disorderly-conduct ordinance is unconstitutional. The Chicago Sun-Times September 3, 2010 By Frank Main Don Goldhamer and Robin Schirmer were arrested in 2006 at the Taste of Chicago after refusing a police order to move into a designated protest zone. They were opposing military recruitment — handing out leaflets and speaking to people near a recruiting booth — when they were arrested for disorderly

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From Hiding, Indonesian Defends Free Expression

FAC September 3, 2010

Hiding out with a two-year jail sentence hanging over his head and vigilantes vowing to track him down, the editor of Indonesia’s defunct version of Playboy magazine, Erwin Arnada, insists he was never in the pornography business. The New York Times September 3, 2010 By Aubrey Belford JAKARTA —The men’s magazine, which began publication in 2006, was relatively tame, and conspicuously free of nudity. But faced with violent protests by hard-line Muslim groups, it soon

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First Amendment: N.H. inmate loses facial-hair challenge

FAC September 1, 2010

A federal judge has ruled that inmates have no First Amendment right to grow a beard, rejecting the claim of an Orthodox Jew who claimed prison policy banning facial hair longer than a quarter-inch violated his constitutional rights. September 1, 2010 By The Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. —U.S. District Chief Judge Steven McAuliffe ruled against Albert Kuperman, saying prison officials’ concerns about hygiene and security trump inmates’ free-expression and religious rights. McAuliffe acknowledged that Kuperman’s

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Giuliani supports moving mosque farther from WTC site

FAC August 20, 2010

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani yesterday joined a growing number of politicians supporting a move of a proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero to state-owned land farther from the Sept. 11 attack site. August 20, 2010 By The Associated Press NEW YORK — Giuliani, who led New Yorkers through Sept. 11 and its aftermath and whose opinion on the mosque could carry considerable clout, made his comments as the imam leading plans for the

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