The first amendment of the constitution is unambiguous and limiting political speech clearly violates it.
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.
If the delicate emotions of the Muslim world- manifested in the degree to which they're ready to cause violence and mayhem worldwide- are enough to circumscribe the First Amendment of the Constitution, shouldn't it also discourage a movie about killing a famous Muslim?
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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.
By pulling my opening Oct. 3, you (ESPN) stepped on the toes of the First Amendment freedom of speech, so therefore me, my song and all my rowdy friends are out of here.
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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.
So the original meaning of the first amendment, for example, is not the common law rights of free speech or the press in 1791 in fact there was no agreed set of such rights at the time but an abstract statement of the right to freedom of expression to be interpreted and reinterpreted as circumstances and society's attitudes change.
The judge said that by refusing to take advantage of those provisions, the president violated the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches as well as the First Amendment rights of the plaintiffs.
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 whole point of the First Amendment is to prevent people like Mr Starr from pursuing the truth to the point of trampling liberties.
" He questioned the communication commission's underlying authority as a "deep intrusion into the First Amendment rights of broadcasters.
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But the justices in that case refused to decide whether the commission's policy violates the First Amendment guarantee of free speech.
It is now upon us to determine if the IRS intentionally trampled the First Amendment rights of Americans who dared to dissent.
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.
This week, I introduced a Senate Resolution condemning the IRS' actions and calling for a full investigation into how the agency infringed upon the First Amendment rights of those targeted.
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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