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Telemarketing Assoc., Inc. upheld an Illinois telemarketing anti-fraud law against claims that it was a form of prior restraint, affirming consumer protection against misrepresentation was a valid government interest justifying a free speech exception for false claims made in that context. The 2012 decision United States v.
Free speech in the United States. Union, NJ: Lawbook Exchange. ISBN 1-58477-085-6. Cronin, Mary M. (ed.) An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016. Donohue, Laura K (2005). "Terrorist Speech and the Future of Free Expression" (PDF). Cardozo Law Review.
Pages in category "Freedom of speech in the United States" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
And, in the period from 1906 to 1916, the Industrial Workers of the World, a working class union, found it necessary to engage in free speech fights intended to secure the right of union organizers to speak freely to wage workers. These free speech campaigns were sometimes quite successful, although participants often put themselves at great risk.
Free speech is pro-democracy; America's adversaries—countries like China and Russia—on the other hand, crack down on free speech and eliminate internal dissent wherever possible.
Kaye, a former United Nations Special Rapporteur on free speech issues, said: "You cannot on the one hand say, 'The media is the enemy of the people,' and at the same time say, 'It's the policy of ...
Arcara v. Cloud Books, Inc., 478 U.S. 697 (1986), was a United States Supreme Court case about the First Amendment and whether freedom of speech was violated by shutting down a bookstore because of illicit sexual activities occurring there. The court held that the closure was aimed at nonexpressive activity and its incidental burden on speech ...
A statute doing so is overly broad (hence, overbreadth) if, in proscribing unprotected speech, it also proscribes protected speech. Because an overly broad law may deter constitutionally protected speech, the overbreadth doctrine allows a party to whom the law may constitutionally be applied to challenge the statute on the ground that it ...