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In a 5–2 decision, the court concluded that the law, as drafted, was "overbroad and facially invalid under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment." [ 9 ] Basing its decision on the breadth and vagueness doctrines , the court concluded that the law is of "alarming breadth" as it criminalized a broad spectrum of protected communications ...
On Jan. 15, the court heard oral arguments in Free Speech v. Paxton, a First Amendment challenge to Texas’s law H.B. 1181, which requires commercial pornographic websites to verify that visitors ...
First Amendment concerns often arise when questionable speech is uttered or posted online. This is equally true when dealing with cyberbullying. Particularly in instances where there are no laws explicitly against cyberbullying, it is not uncommon for defendants to argue that their conduct amounts to an exercise of their freedom of speech.
In 2017, a juvenile court in Massachusetts ruled that repeatedly encouraging someone to commit suicide was not protected by the First Amendment, [12] and found a 20-year-old woman, who was 17 at the time of the offense, guilty of manslaughter on this basis. [13] The judge cited a little-known 1816 precedent. [14]
The early contours of a potential legal and political defense began to emerge in the hours after the charges were unsealed, with defense lawyer John Lauro accusing the Justice Department of having ...
Florida's solicitor general appeared before Supreme Court justices on Monday to hash out that argument in a generational First Amendment case that will have big implications on internet life.
Cases that consider the First Amendment implications of payments mandated by the state going to use in part for speech by third parties Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977) Communications Workers of America v. Beck (1978) Chicago Local Teachers Union v. Hudson (1986) Keller v. State Bar of California (1990) Lehnert v. Ferris Faculty Ass'n ...
The Supreme Court appeared to favor the government's national security claims over TikTok's 1st Amendment argument. ... to block a law intended to force the sale of the short-video app by Jan. 19 ...