enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_State_Pharmacy...

    Virginia, [5] in which the Court struck down a Virginia statute prohibiting the advertisement of out-of-state abortion procedures. [6] He also distinguished commercial speech from such "unprotected" categories of speech such as "fighting words" and obscenity. Nor does having a purely economic interest in the content of speech deprive the ...

  3. United States free speech exceptions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech...

    The government is not permitted to fire an employee based on the employee's speech if three criteria are met: the speech addresses a matter of public concern; the speech is not made pursuant to the employee's job duties, but rather the speech is made in the employee's capacity as a citizen; [47] and the damage inflicted on the government by the ...

  4. Freedom of speech in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the...

    During colonial times, English speech regulations were rather restrictive.The English criminal common law of seditious libel made criticizing the government a crime. Lord Chief Justice John Holt, writing in 1704–1705, explained the rationale for the prohibition: "For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it."

  5. Encryption is a privacy issue and, by extension, a free-speech issue—if people can’t communicate in private, they don’t feel free to fully express themselves. So this case does touch on free ...

  6. Bigelow v. Virginia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_v._Virginia

    Bigelow v. Virginia, 421 U.S. 809 (1975), [1] was a United States Supreme Court decision that established First Amendment protection for commercial speech. [2] The ruling is an important precedent on challenges to government regulation of advertising, determining that such publications qualify as speech under the First Amendment.

  7. The TikTok Ban’s Free Speech Dilemma - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/tiktok-ban-free-speech-dilemma...

    Daley, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that for the government to give preference to the national security concerns over those of free speech, the concern must be real, not simply ...

  8. United States defamation law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law

    Freedom of speech in the United States; Freedom of the press in the United States; Censorship in the United States; Obsidian Finance Group, LLC v. Cox, a 2014 federal appellate court ruling holding for the first time that blogs enjoy the same First Amendment protection from libel suits as traditional news media. United States free speech exceptions

  9. US Supreme Court sidesteps dispute over Virginia Tech bias ...

    www.aol.com/news/us-supreme-court-sidesteps...

    In the lawsuit, Speech First said the free speech rights under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment of its student members at Virginia Tech were violated by the Virginia Tech bias-response team.