They claim that refusing them communal funds constitutes a violation of their free speech rights.
The American Civil Liberties Union commended the company for defending free speech rights.
Rather than the vile ahistorical but exercise of free speech rights that it is in much of the world.
The case touches on a common challenge to police: proving intent to commit a crime without infringing on free speech rights.
I've seen a couple of law review articles discussing the conflict between free speech rights and this electioneering bubble for individual voters.
Two of the three judges on the appeals court panel agreed with Caronia that the conviction violated his free speech rights, and they vacated it.
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We also noted the predictable opposition of nanny-state activists and academics who cringed at the non-governmental standard setting and assertion of commercial free speech rights.
As for the US Department of Justice, the ruling clearly noted that free speech rights do not extend to instances where information is false and misleading.
The court delivered decisions that limit voluntary school desegregation plans, curb student free speech rights and struck down a key provision of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law.
Whenever government speaks out on how companies may promote their products, especially to this level of specificity, concerns of intrusions on commercial free speech rights must be considered.
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And like all Americans, corporations have the free speech rights and can spend whatever they want on political ads without disclosing who they are or exposing their agendas.
In March, Illston found that the FBI's demand that recipients refrain from telling anyone including customers that they had received the letters was a violation of free speech rights.
While the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the free speech rights of ordinary citizens, a Defense Department rule prohibits service members from engaging in some forms of political activity.
Roberts added that while the court has limited student free speech rights in the past, young people do not give up all their First Amendment rights when they enter a school.
U.S. parents have a great deal of legal authority over their children, but there is nothing in the First Amendment that says you have to be an adult to have free speech rights.
This effort to prevent the reappearance of fraud perpetrated by the few bad apples in the public and private spheres has eviscerated the free speech rights of hundreds of thousands of citizens across the country.
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Further, if the rubric is to be based on this "test of consequence, " then it creates a real temptation to any administration so inclined to "create" consequences that will justify a change in America's free speech rights.
It certainly would be one of those where a judge would be asked to choose between two very important interests - individual's free speech rights and a sort of - I guess a voter's right as an individual speaker and then a voter's right as the member of a larger electorate.
While I respect and support their free speech rights, just as I respect and support the right of Neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen to express themselves, I do not respect and support the anti-Gallaudet forces' behavior because that behavior is keeping me and others who share my position from leading the lives we have chosen: to attend classes and work at Gallaudet.
The decision is the latest in recent years in which the court has upheld free-speech rights.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court cited First Amendment free-speech rights in striking down a law that made it a federal crime to falsely claim to have been awarded military medals.
The free-speech rights of 501(c)(4)s, however, are not absolute.
Two weeks ago it pre-emptively filed a suit against the FTC, saying that prescreening of ads by the government is tantamount to prior restraint, and violates the company's First Amendment free-speech rights.
In laying down the guidelines, the department is trying to balance free-speech rights and the educational benefits of online learning with the dangers it sees in teachers and students getting too comfortable in less-traditional settings.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote the dissent, on behalf of Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, arguing that by striking down the law the court was shielding lies and breaking from precedents that regarded false statements as not protected by free-speech rights.
It was never fundamentally about free speech and the rights of Englishmen and all that stuff.
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Lewis worked for 32 years as a columnist for the Times, taking up such causes as free speech, human rights and constitutional law.
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