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News stories recently posted throughout the First Amendment Center Online.
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Federal court won't hear challenge to Neb. flag-desecration law
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But judge lets claims against funeral-protest law proceed, says Shirley Phelps-Roper can raise questions about flag statute's constitutionality during her criminal case in state court.
04.22.10
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Mo. officials, Klan to square off in court over denied permit
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Federal judge issues emergency restraining order, schedules hearing over preliminary injunction in case of KKK group barred from gathering at historic site.
04.21.10
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Idaho Supreme Court upholds town's curfew
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High court overturns lower court, which found rules violated kids' free speech by blocking proteced activities.
03.30.10
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Philadelphia officials announce crackdown on 'flash mobs'
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Police are monitoring social-networking sites for early warning of potential disturbances; mayor says if 'stupidity' continues, he'll permanently tighten city's curfew for minors.
03.25.10
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Supreme Court stays out of Mass. abortion-clinic case
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Justices refuse to hear appeal from anti-abortion activists who say law creating 35-foot buffer zone around clinic entrances, driveways violates free speech.
03.22.10
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Justices agree to hear funeral-protest case
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Court to consider whether church has right to picket military funerals.
Milavetz ruling
03.08.10
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N.Y. lawyer tossed from mall over anti-war T-shirt loses appeal
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State appeals court says Stephen Downs' rights weren't violated because private property owner ordered him thrown out, not the government.
02.22.10
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Federal judge overturns Rainbow Family convictions
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Court says magistrate's makeshift courtroom in Monongahela National Forest inadvertently denied defendants the ability to effectively appeal their illegal assembly convictions.
02.20.10
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Federal judge: NYC can require permit for mass bike rides
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Cyclists had challenged rules requiring groups of 50 or more to get parade permits, saying mandate violates bikers' rights to travel, expressive association and free speech.
02.17.10
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Nashville sit-ins made history and headlines, panelists say
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Marking 50th anniversary of sit-in movement, participants in First Amendment Center, NAACP program discuss how news media covered lunch-counter protests.
02.15.10
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Feds wrongly tracked Wis. pro-, anti-abortion activists
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Groups seek release of threat-assessment report prepared by U.S. Department of Homeland Security and shared with local police, state intelligence center.
02.09.10
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2 thrown out of Bush event can't revive lawsuit
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10th Circuit finds protesters can't sue because volunteers who evicted them acted under White House direction in official capacity.
01.29.10
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Wash. anti-war group sues over alleged government spying
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Members of Olympia organization accuse Army intelligence analyst, others of illegally infiltrating group and gathering info that was used to make wrongful arrests.
01.14.10
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La. town not liable for cop's actions against street preachers
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Group's attorney responds to 5th Circuit decision, saying he has noticed pattern of rulings that refuse to hold municipal governments accountable in civil rights cases.
12.22.09
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Student can pursue challenge of school’s gang-affiliation policy
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By David L. Hudson Jr. After rejecting a free-speech claim, federal judge finds New York school's policy too broad.
11.18.09
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2nd Circuit rains on new parades for NYC's Fifth Ave.
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Court upholds city's right to bar parades along popular route, saying the 'Fifth Avenue Rule' doesn't discriminate on content basis.
11.18.09
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Texas students get go-ahead for empty-holster protests
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Federal judge grants temporary restraining order allowing Tarrant County College students to participate in nationwide demonstration this week.
11.10.09
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Ore. court: Elder-abuse law protects furrier from protesters
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Judge orders four animal-rights activists to keep their distance from 75-year-old and his store, saying level of profanity that they directed at man clearly violated statute.
11.09.09
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3rd Circuit rejects Pittsburgh's abortion-clinic access law
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Unanimous three-judge panel finds either set of distance limits could by itself be legal, but that combined, the zones violate First Amendment.
11.03.09
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Alaska court rejects free-association challenge to smoking ban
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Judge rules against Fraternal Order of Eagles, saying Juneau ordinance regulates 'actions of the (group's) members, not their choice of the people with whom they associate.'
10.26.09
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9th Circuit judge urges settlement in campus-speech case
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'It sounds like you have achieved a victory,' Chief Judge Alex Kozinski tells lawyer for anti-abortion group, referring to fact that Arizona State has already altered policy at center of lawsuit.
10.22.09
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Chicago City Council backs abortion-clinic buffer zone
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If measure is enacted, protesters will be prohibited from getting nearer than eight feet of patients who are within 50 feet of a facility.
10.09.09
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N.Y. man accused of tweeting cop actions at protests
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During G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, man arrested for using Twitter to monitor police moves for other activists.
10.05.09
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Critics question use of acoustic 'weapon' to disperse G-20 crowds
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Joel Kupferman, who attended Sept. 24 march as legal observer for National Lawyers Guild, said he was overwhelmed by device's deterrent tone, calling it 'overkill.'
10.03.09
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Mass. high court rejects teen curfew's criminal penalties
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Justices uphold Lowell curfew, but say that criminal prosecution of a minor, with the potential for state confinement, 'is an extraordinary and unnecessary response.'
09.29.09
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Police overreacted at G-20 protest, critics say
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Civil libertarians accuse riot officers of focusing on largely peaceful, if unsanctioned, demonstrations when they should have been paying more attention to small groups of vandals.
09.28.09
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4th Circuit nixes $5 million verdict against funeral protesters
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Three-judge panel finds signs used by members of Kansas church to picket Marine's funeral contained 'imaginative and hyperbolic rhetoric' protected by First Amendment.
09.25.09
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Denial of 'yoga for peace' event sparks protest in N.H. town
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Town selectmen say they rejected request because they lacked information about plans for the gathering.
09.25.09
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G-20 protesters allege police harassment in lawsuit
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Two groups accuse Pittsburgh officers of engaging in 'systematic attempts to harass and discourage lawful First Amendment activities' in run-up to global economic summit.
09.22.09
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Activists get go-ahead to erect 'tent city' for G-20 protest
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But federal judge denies requests by two other groups to camp overnight in park and to rally on bridge near economic summit being held next week in Pittsburgh.
09.18.09
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