Monday, February 06, 2006

Court Decisions re: US Freedom of Speech

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Library of Court Decisions for Freedom of Speech in the US

Historical Development
1. English Heritage
2. to WWI

Controls upon the Content of Speech
3. Political Heresy: Sedition in the US Since 1917
4. Defamation and Invasion of Privacy
5. Religio-Moral Heresy: From Blasphemy to Obscenity
6. Provocation to Anger and Words That Wound
7. Commercial Speech

Special Issues
8. Prior Restraint
9. Special Problems of a Free Press
10. Constraints of Time, Place, and Manner
11. Institutional Constraints: Schools, the Military, Prisons

Technology
12. Copyright
13. Broadcasting, Cable, and Access Theory
14. The Internet

Freedom of Speech

Blasphemy

United States free speech case law

Freedom of Speech in the United States

Abrams v. United States
Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court involving the Sedition Act of 1918, which made it a criminal offense to criticize the U.S. federal government. The Court ruled 7-2 that the Act did not violate civil rights under the First Amendment, with Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis dissenting. The case was overturned during the Vietnam War era.

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