Valeo, which stated that donating money was a form of expression protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution.
One of those values is the freedom to practice your religion -- a right that is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
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The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights has long been interpreted as prohibiting the establishment of any national religion or conferring upon one religion a preference over others.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will begin an internal debate on its advertising policies in earnest on Thursday, just more than two months after its refusal of an anti-Muslim ad campaign was ruled to have violated the First Amendment of the Constitution.
From these disparate religious perspectives, the gay marriage debate seems settled, rooted more in the religious freedoms of the first amendment than the ratification of a new 28th.
SEIU, the latest in a line of cases protecting the First Amendment rights of workers who are required by state law to pay union dues.
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Finally, another disadvantage of the FCC's proposed approach is that it likely infringes on the First Amendment rights of the Internet providers.
The judge in the California case agreed with the company's argument that the nondisclosure provisions of the national security letter law violate the First Amendment protection of free speech.
By a 6-3 margin, the Justices upheld a Colorado law requiring abortion protesters to keep a specified distance from clinic patients and employees, concluding that the statute does not violate the First Amendment rights of the protesters.
The judgment came as a surprise because the justices had specifically refused to hear arguments on the First Amendment aspect of the complicated case, and instead said they would rule only on narrower procedural questions arising out of the tough new immigration law passed in 1996.
The issue: Does the right of celebrities to control their images trump the First Amendment right of artists and media companies to free speech?
One can argue about the political merits of the proposal and the complexities of whether the First Amendment not only protects political speech but shields the source of that speech from government and public scrutiny.
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The court, however, refused both at that time and now to decide whether the commission's policy violates the First Amendment guarantee of free speech, ruling only on the agency's enforcement power.
The fact that the same effect was sought to be achieved through a public statement by an official, executed by voluntary action of a private company, suggests a deep vulnerability of the checks imposed by the first amendment in the context of a public sphere built entirely of privately-owned infrastructure.
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It would be an unconstitutional "entanglement" problem (violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment) if a secular court had to get into the business of deciding what Jewish law or Catholic canon was and what it said about a given dispute.
Mr Miller's status as a candidate, no matter how ridiculous, puts the ads under the protection of political speech, the highest level of the First Amendment.
But the justices in that case refused to decide whether the commission's policy violates the First Amendment guarantee of free speech.
The statements "are not protected by the First Amendment irrespective of whether they are true or false, " Selna wrote in an earlier ruling.
For example, the company's argument rests partly on the idea that disclosing a customer's name would impinge on the First Amendment right of free association.
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"You cannot just regulate code without going thru the first amendment type of balancing tests that are used for any other type of speech, because code is speech, " says Cohn.
Contribution limits are subject to lower scrutiny because they primarily implicate the First Amendment rights of association, not expression, and contributors remain able to vindicate their associational interests in other ways.
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Judge Susan Illston, of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, said the laws, which underlie a tool known as a "national security letter, " violate the First Amendment and the separation of powers principles.
Members of the Fourth Estate and devotees of the First Amendment, take a bow.
Not surprisingly, this argument concludes by warning against the slippery slope: if you outlaw sharia because it includes some dirty water around the globe, you will have effectively outlawed all such religious and private adjudicative bodies unless you are going to discriminate against the law of Muslims, which would violate the First Amendment and the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution.
Beyond that, the first House of Representatives, while debating the First Amendment, specifically rejected a Senate proposal calling for the establishment of Christianity as an official religion.
For those of us who feel comfortable calling out the NRA crowd for hiding behind the Second Amendment, consider the actions of the Hollywood crowd, which hides behind the First Amendment in its manipulative glorification of gun violence.
The primacy of a secular state was solidified when the First Amendment was included in the Bill of Rights.
Justice Clarence Thomas, dissenting, said the original understanding of the First Amendment would include not just prohibitions against obscenity, but children disregarding their parents.
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The robust guarantees of the First Amendment are vital for real, live human beings, to ensure their expressive and democratic participative rights are protected.
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He scorns a reading of the first amendment which protects only freedom of speech and the press, and not other forms of expression such as letter writing or making television programmes.
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