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News stories recently posted throughout the First Amendment Center Online.
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Mass. high court: Sexual instant messages to minors are legal
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Justices say Legislature must change statute to bar such texts; state senator says she'll file legislation 'to bring this law into the 21st century.'
02.08.10
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Muslim group files complaint over Calif. mayor's remarks
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Council on American-Islamic Relations claims R. Rex Parris violated civil rights of non-Christians when he said Lancaster was 'growing a Christian community.'
02.08.10
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Alito objected to Obama's history claim
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On basis of justice's questions in Citizens United arguments, it seems clear he took issue with assertion that ruling 'reversed a century of law.'
02.08.10
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Federal judge dismisses suit filed by Tony Alamo followers
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Members claimed Arkansas state agency infringed on their religious rights when it seized children from their compound.
02.07.10
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Rowdy W.Va. student basketball fans under fire
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University official warns students after profanity at game reaches such volume it was heard on national TV.
02.06.10
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3rd Circuit rulings cloud issue of off-campus student speech
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One panel of judges upholds suspension of eighth-grader for fake MySpace page; another panel says school officials can't punish senior for his parody page.
02.05.10
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Justice Thomas defends Citizens United ruling
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Supreme Court jurist also says some criticisms of the high court 'border on being irresponsible.'
02.05.10
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Springsteen wants name off lawsuit against NYC bar
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Music-industry group is demanding licensing fees from Manhattan bar where band performed two of New Jersey rocker's songs.
02.05.10
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St. Louis ordered to nix anti-leafleting law
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Under consent judgment in ACLU lawsuit, city will stop enforcing ordinance, which made it a crime to place fliers on parked cars, and remove it from books.
02.05.10
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10th Circuit won't revive defamation suit against Grisham, others
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By David L. Hudson Jr. Former Oklahoma prosecutor, investigators claimed authors libeled them in books about two men's wrongful rape, murder convictions.
02.04.10
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NYC billboard rules don't violate First Amendment, 2nd Circuit says
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'The fact that the city has chosen to value some types of commercial speech over others does not make the regulation irrational,' three-judge panel finds.
02.04.10
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Student says he was booted from honor society for Facebook page
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Page created by Alex Fuentes became popular venue for student criticism of Wesley Chapel (Fla.) High School.
02.04.10
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Kan. high court refuses to shield reporter from testifying
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Dodge City Globe had challenged subpoena on grounds that forcing Claire O'Brien to testify would violate her First Amendment rights, hurt her ability to gather news.
02.03.10
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