Freedom of speech court cases (US)

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  1. Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47, 39 S.Ct. 247, 63 L.Ed.2d. (1919)
  2. Whitney v. California, 274 U. S. 357 (1927)
  3. Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697, 51 S.Ct. 625, 75 L.Ed. 1357 (1931)
  4. Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444, 89 S.Ct. 1827, 23 L.Ed.2d. 430 (1969)

The Right to Read Freely

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  1. Evans v. Selma Union High School District of Fresno County, 222 P. 801 (Ca. 1924)
  2. Rosenberg v. Board of Education of City of New York, 92 N.Y.S.2d 344 (Sup. Ct. Kings County 1949)
  3. Todd v. Rochester Community Schools, 200 N.W.2d 90 (Mich. Ct. App. 1972)
  4. Minarcini v. Strongsville (Ohio) City School District, 541 F.2d 577 (6th Cir. 1976)
  5. Right to Read Defense Committee v. School Committee of the City of Chelsea, 454 F. Supp. 703 (D. Mass. 1978)
  6. Salvail v. Nashua Board of Education, 469 F. Supp. 1269 (D. N.H. 1979)
  7. Loewen v. Turnipseed, 488 F. Supp. 1138 (N.D. Miss. 1980)
  8. Kreimer v. Bureau of Police for Morristown, 958 F.2d 1242 (3d Cir. 1992)
  9. Case v. Unified School District No. 233, 908 F. Supp. 864 (D. Kan. 1995)
  10. Campbell v. St. Tammany Parish School Board, 64 F.3d 184 (5th Cir. 1995)
  11. Sund v. City of Wichita Falls, Texas, 121 F. Supp. 2d 530 (N.D. Texas, 2000)
  12. Counts v. Cedarville School District, 295 F.Supp.2d 996 (W.D. Ark. 2003)
  13. See also: Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853, 102 S.Ct. 2799, 73 L.Ed.2d 435 (1982)
  14. Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile (Ala.) County, 827 F.2d 684 (11th Cir. 1987)
  15. Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Education, 827 F.2d 1058 (6th Cir. 1987)
  16. Virgil v. School Board of Columbia County, 862 F.2d 1517 (11th Cir. 1989)
  17. American Library Association v. U.S. Department of Justice and Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844, 117 S.Ct. 2329, 138 L.Ed.2d. 874 (1997)
  18. Mainstream Loudoun, et al. v. Board of Trustees of the Loudoun County Library, 24 F.Supp.2d 552 (E.D. of Va. 1998)

Freedom of Expression in Schools

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  1. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, 89 S.Ct. 733, 21 L.Ed.2d. 731 (1969)
  2. Zykan v. Warsaw (Indiana) Community School Corporation and Warsaw School Board of Trustees, 631 F.2d 1300 (7th Cir. 1980)
  3. Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853, 102 S.Ct. 2799, 73 L.Ed.2d 435 (1982)
  4. Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile (Ala.) County, 827 F.2d 684 (11th Cir. 1987)
  5. Mozert v. Hawkins County Board of Education, 827 F.2d 1058 (6th Cir. 1987)
  6. Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260, 108 S.Ct. 562, 98 L.Ed.2d 592 (1988)
  7. Virgil v. School Board of Columbia County, 862 F.2d 1517 (11th Cir. 1989)
  8. Romano v. Harrington, 725 F.Supp. 687 (E.D. N.Y. 1989)
  9. Cohen v. San Bernardino Valley College, 92 F.3d 968 (9th Cir. 1996)
  10. See also: Evans v. Selma Union High School District of Fresno County, 222 P. 801 (Ca. 1924)
  11. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
  12. Rosenberg v. Board of Education of City of New York, 92 N.Y.S.2d 344 (Sup. Ct. Kings County 1949)
  13. Todd v. Rochester Community Schools, 200 N.W.2d 90 (Mich. Ct. App. 1972)
  14. Minarcini v. Strongsville (Ohio) City School District, 541 F.2d 577 (6th Cir. 1976)
  15. Right to Read Defense Committee v. School Committee of the City of Chelsea, 454 F. Supp. 703 (D. Mass. 1978)
  16. Salvail v. Nashua Board of Education, 469 F. Supp. 1269 (D. N.H. 1979)
  17. Loewen v. Turnipseed, 488 F. Supp. 1138 (N.D. Miss. 1980)
  18. Case v. Unified School District No. 233, 908 F. Supp. 864 (D. Kan. 1995)
  19. Campbell v. St. Tammany Parish School Board, 64 F.3d 184 (5th Cir. 1995)
  20. Counts v. Cedarville School District, 295 F.Supp.2d 996 (W.D. Ark. 2003)

Minors' First Amendment Rights

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  1. American Amusement Machine Association, et al., v. Teri Kendrick, et al., 244 F.3d 954 (7th Cir. 2001); cert.denied, 534 U.S. 994; 122 S. Ct. 462; 151 L. Ed. 2d 379 (2001)
  2. Interactive Digital Software Association, et al. v. St. Louis County, Missouri, et al., 329 F.3d 954(8th Cir. 2003)
  3. See also: West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
  4. Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U.S. 629 (1968)
  5. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, 89 S.Ct. 733, 21 L.Ed.2d. 731 (1969)
  6. Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853, 102 S.Ct. 2799, 73 L.Ed.2d 435 (1982)

Free Press

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  1. New York Times Company v. United States, 403 U.S. 713, 91 S.Ct. 2140, 29 L.Ed.2d. 822 (1971)
  2. Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46, 108 S.Ct. 876, 99 L.Ed.2d. 41 (1988)
  3. Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of New York State Crime Victims Board, 502 U.S. 105, 112 S.Ct. 501, 116 L.Ed.2d. 476 (1991)
  4. See also: The New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d. 686 (1964)
  5. Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 94 S.Ct. 2997, 41 L.Ed.2d. 789 (1974)

The Right to Dissent

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  1. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 87 L. Ed. 1628, 63 S. Ct. 1178 (1943)
  2. Wooley v. Maynard, 430 U.S. 705 (1977)
  3. Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 109 S.Ct. 2533, 105 L.Ed.2d 342 (1989)
  4. U.S. v. Eichman and U.S. v. Haggerty, 496 U.S. 310, 110 S.Ct. 2404, 110 L.Ed.2d 287 (1990)
  5. City of Ladue v. Gilleo, 512 U.S. 43, 114 S.Ct. 2038, 129 L.Ed. 2d. 36 (1994)
  6. R.A.V. v. St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377, 112 S.Ct. 2538, 120 L.Ed.2d. 305 (1992)
  7. See also: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503, 89 S.Ct. 733, 21 L.Ed.2d. 731 (1969)

The Right to Free Association and the Freedom of Religion

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  1. Concerned Women for America, Inc. v. Lafayette County, 883 F.2d 32 (5th Cir. 1989)
  2. Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School Dist., 508 U.S. 384, 113 S.Ct. 2141, 124 L.Ed.2d. 352 (1993)

Right to Privacy and Anonymity

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  1. Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 55, 22 L. Ed. 2d 542, 89 S. Ct. 1243 (1969)
  2. McIntyre v. Ohio Election Commission, 514 U.S. 334, 115 S.Ct. 1511, 131 L.Ed.2d. 426 (1995)
  3. Tattered Cover, Inc. v. City of Thornton, 44 P.3d 1044 (Colo. Sup. Ct., 2002)

When Is Speech Unprotected?

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Obscenity and Indecency

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  1. Butler v. Michigan, 352 U.S. 380, 1 L. Ed. 2d 412, 77 S. Ct. 524 (1957)
  2. Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U.S. 62, 20 L. Ed. 2d 195, 88 S. Ct. 1274 (1968)
  3. Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, 93 S.Ct. 2607, 37 L.Ed.2d. 419 (1973)
  4. New York v. Ferber, 458 U.S. 747, 102 S.Ct. 3348, 73 L.Ed.2d 1113 (1982)
  5. American Booksellers Assoc., Inc. v. Hudnut, 771 F.2d 323 (7th Cir. 1985) (Easterbrook, J.), aff'd., 475 U.S. 1001, 106 S.Ct. 1172, 89 L.Ed.2d 291 (1986)
  6. National Endowment for the Arts, et al. v. Finley, et al., 524 U.S. 569, 118 S.Ct. 2168, 141 L. Ed. 2d 500 (1998)
  7. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General, et al. v. Free Speech Coalition, et al., 535 U.S. 234, 122 S.Ct. 1389, 152 L.Ed.2d 403, (2002)
  8. See also: Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 55, 22 L. Ed. 2d 542, 89 S. Ct. 1243 (1969)

Libel

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  1. The New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d. 686 (1964)
  2. Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 94 S.Ct. 2997, 41 L.Ed.2d. 789 (1974)
  3. See also: Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46, 108 S.Ct. 876, 99 L.Ed.2d. 41 (1988)

The First Amendment and New Technologies

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Broadcast and Cable Communications

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  1. FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U.S. 726, 57 L. Ed. 2d 1073, 98 S. Ct. 3026 (1978)
  2. Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium, Inc. v. FCC, 518 U.S. 727, 116 S.Ct. 2374, 135 L.Ed.2d. 288 (1996)
  3. United States, et al. v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc., 529 U.S. 803, 120 S.Ct. 1878, 146 L.Ed.2d 865 (2000)

Telecommunications

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  1. Sable Communications of California, Inc v. FCC, 492 U.S. 115, 106 L. Ed. 2d 93, 109 S. Ct. 2829 (1989)

The Internet

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  1. American Library Association v. U.S. Department of Justice and Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844, 117 S.Ct. 2329, 138 L.Ed.2d. 874 (1997)
  2. Mainstream Loudoun, et al. v. Board of Trustees of the Loudoun County Library, 24 F.Supp.2d 552 (E.D. of Va. 1998)
  3. United States, et al. v. American Library Association, Inc. et al., 539 U.S. 194, 123 S.Ct. 2297, 156 L.Ed.2d 221 (2003)