The decision is the latest in recent years in which the court has upheld free-speech rights.
Douglas, a mercurial man who once aspired to the presidency, became a free-speech champion.
Free-speech campaigners, who think the rich and powerful use privacy to shield wrongdoing, welcomed the decision.
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The Dutch appellate court refused a free-speech defense because the insults were so egregious.
Free-speech campaigners have been calling for Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 to be scrapped.
America's free-speech culture may have a better chance of fostering such a debate than European political correctness.
It sued the FEC on free-speech grounds, and the case came before the Supreme Court earlier this year.
Free-speech advocates argue that the "like" should have been clearly protected by Carter's right to freedom of expression.
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But on February 29th the same judge reversed his ruling, to the delight of a bevy of free-speech advocates.
North Carolina and Oklahoma have similar laws, Ms. Northup said, but courts there have blocked the laws on free-speech grounds.
Mr Mortimer, also tracing that thread, took on the most celebrated free-speech cases of the 1970s, and won them all.
But quite a lot of Thais blamed the government for turning an obscure bit of nonsense into a global free-speech issue.
Jason Gilliam, who is representing himself, quickly filed a three-page objection citing the First Amendment free-speech provision of the U.S. Constitution.
To free-speech campaigners, all this was seen as further evidence of self-censorship amid increasing fears of upsetting sensibilities of some Muslims.
They therefore suggested the groundwork for the possible dismissal of certain RICO cases on a free-speech basis, should such cases come along.
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An economic-motive requirement is, finally, unnecessary, because legitimate free-speech claims may be raised and addressed in individual RICO cases as they arise.
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Free-speech advocates won these cases, but they needed lawyers to do so.
"There were important free-speech issues here - they were literally asking the judge to censor the film, " said their lawyer, Anthony T Falzone.
Some U.S. courts have agreed with Google's assertion that its search-engine results are a kind of opinion that is protected by free-speech rights.
This, he suggests, means that deciding a free-speech case requires understanding a more complex body of precedents than deciding any other kind of case.
Free-speech advocates argue that the Internet, unlike a broadcast medium, requires users to pay access fees and that then they must persistently search out sites.
But a U.S. District Court judge in Virginia ruled differently saying, in effect, that free-speech protections don't kick in when someone doesn't actually say something.
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In January, the Supreme Court found that corporations and unions enjoy some of the same free-speech rights as people when it comes to political campaigns.
Free-speech and free-information types are all atwitter over Golan vs.
The court's free-speech rulings illustrate the ideological split among the justices.
After the victory of SOPA many internet activists and free-speech evangelists were delighted that a digital grassroots movement could topple a bill with so much momentum.
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The justices said in that free-speech dispute that the Federal Communications Commission imposed unfair punishment for isolated profanity and sexual content during evening "prime time" hours.
The growing use of English courts by foreign litigants is arousing increasing concern among free-speech campaigners such as Chris Walker of Freedom House, an American lobby group.
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In a 1985 case, California's highest court overturned a local ban on fortune-telling businesses, declaring that they were protected under the free-speech provisions of the American constitution.
Instead, it infects the online community in a pandemic of free-speech-fueled defiance, gaining far more attention than it would have had the information's original owners simply kept quiet.
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