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News stories recently posted throughout the First Amendment Center Online.
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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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St. Louis police board apologizes to protesters
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American Civil Liberties Union announces settlement of lawsuit brought on behalf of activists targeted before World Agricultural Forum in 2003.
08.25.09
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N.J. city considers imposing adult curfew to curtail crime
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Experts say proposed Paterson ordinance could be nation's first citywide, non-emergency curfew to include adults.
08.19.09
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Birmingham mayor pardons civil rights protesters
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But Larry Langford acknowledges few demonstrators may actually want their records expunged because many carry their misdemeanors as badges of honor.
08.12.09
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Pelosi, Hoyer: Health-care protesters' behavior 'un-American'
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White House spokesman doesn't directly respond to top House Democrats' comments, saying instead that 'spirited debate' is 'part of the American tradition.'
08.11.09
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Study supports Central Park lawn restrictions
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Civil rights, protest groups unhappy with results of independent study required under settlement of federal lawsuit.
08.07.09
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Conservative activists say no letup for health-forum protests
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Democrats, White House claim sometimes rowdy protests at town hall meetings are largely orchestrated from afar; Republican Party chairman denies charge.
08.07.09
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Federal jury: West Point didn't violate protesters' free speech
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Demonstrators' anti-war message on T-shirts wasn't main reason for expulsion from Army-Navy basketball game, jurors find.
07.23.09
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2nd Circuit: U.S. officials mishandled exclusion of Muslim scholar
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Tariq Ramadan should have had chance to show he was no supporter of terrorism before he was barred from country.
07.20.09
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9th Circuit dismisses lawsuit over Ore. Bush protest
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However, court gives ACLU lawyers a chance to amend complaint to include evidence that would strengthen their claims that Secret Service discriminated against demonstrators.
07.20.09
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1st Circuit backs expanded buffer zones outside Mass. abortion clinics
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Attorney general's office defended 2007 statute, saying it enhanced public safety and clinic access, while still guaranteeing people's right to express opinions near medical facilities.
07.10.09
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Justices keep Mo. funeral-protest law on hold
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Supreme Court refuses to hear state's appeal of 8th Circuit order that bars enforcement of statute while federal judge considers whether it is constitutional.
06.29.09
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Christian group can't leaflet at Arab festival, federal judge rules
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Lawyer for Arabic Christian Perspective says: 'It's not over'; group will seek permanent injunction against city of Dearborn, Mich.
06.19.09
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Federal judge: Ministry can leaflet at St. Louis PrideFest
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Court makes earlier order permanent; city representatives said officials had already repealed ordinance in question.
06.16.09
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N.Y. high court strikes down city's youth curfew
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Justices say Rochester's ordinance violates children's free-expression, -association rights and gives parents too little flexibility and autonomy in supervising their kids.
06.10.09
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