Category Archives: First Amendment

First Amendment and Technology - Professor Felix Wu
Professor Felix Wu of Yeshiva University #39;s Cardozo School of Law participates in panel 2 the 2015 JBTL Symposium, "The Impact of the First Amendment on American Businesses." Panel 2 discussed...

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First Amendment and Technology - Professor Hillary Greene
Professor Hillary Greene of the University of Connecticut School of Law participates in panel 2 the 2015 JBTL Symposium, "The Impact of the First Amendment on American Businesses." Panel 2...

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Sen. Bill Cassidy: Religious Freedom Acts help protect First Amendment
Senator Bill Cassidy says the Religious Freedom Acts are just in place to help people protect their First Amendment right of freedom of religion. Subscribe to WDSU on YouTube now for more:...

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First Amendment and Commercial Speech
Panel 1 of Maryland Carey Law #39;s 2015 JBTL Symposium, "The Impact of the First Amendment on American Businesses" touched on how the First Amendment is applied with regards to commercial ...

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Religious Freedom Laws: First Amendment Right or Discrimination?
Indiana isn #39;t the only state in the hot seat over Religious Freedom Restoration Acts. People across the nation are protesting for and against RFRA #39;s. While the laws have been around for years,...

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The outcry over Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act is proof positive that the First Amendment's protection against government abridgment of the free exercise of religion by each citizen is endangered.

The loud, whining demands that the law be "fixed" or repealed fly in the face of a commitment to individual freedom to believe and live as one's conscience dictates.

The homosexual community and its supporters would say the belief that marriage can exist only between a man and a woman is archaic, simple-minded, hateful and any number of other pejoratives (even though it was the universally accepted view until very recently).

But, the First Amendment was written by those who sought to protect just such beliefs from government interference and compulsion. It is precisely those individually held beliefs in conflict with the politically astute and those who can militate such public demonstrations that most need First Amendment protection.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act prohibits government actions that substantially burden one's exercise of his or her religion. How can someone argue with that? Only those who decide that my religious beliefs are invalid can take such a position.

As long as the First Amendment protection (as embodied in the RFRA) prevails, neither the government nor any individual has the right to dictate those beliefs to me or to any gay, lesbian or other person, regardless of the unpopularity of the beliefs.

PERRY ALBIN

Newman

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RTDNF 2015 First Amendment Awards Pre Dinner
RTDNF 2015 First Amendment Awards Pre Dinner.

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Rebele Symposium: Shaping Your Speech - Media Reform, Past and Present
From the First Amendment to Net Neutrality, How Media Regulation Affects What We Say. The Sixth Rebele Symposium for the First Amendment featuring Mignon Clyburn, Victor Pickard and Morgan...

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UMD campus outraged over offensive email
The University of Maryland #39;s president says a student #39;s racist and sexist email to fraternity brothers was "hateful and reprehensible," but it #39;s protected by the First Amendment and doesn #39;t...

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TIME U.S. Education University of Maryland Wont Expel Student Who Sent Racist, Sexist Email John GreimLightRocket via Getty Images McKeldin Library and fountain, University of Maryland. Concluded that email was protected by First Amendment, in contrast to other schools dealing with similar incidents

The University of Marylands president has decided not to expel a student for sending an email to his fraternity brothers filled with racist and misogynistic content.

The university learned of the explicit email, sent by a Kappa Sigma fraternity member, in March as it went viral online. The school launched an investigation through the universitys Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct and the campus and local police, but concluded Wednesday that this private email, while hateful and reprehensible, did not violate University policies and is protected by the First Amendment.

The response stands in contrast to how some other universities have handled recent, high profile incidents involving fraternity members and racist and sexist speech. The University of Oklahoma quickly expelled two students in March who were shown in a viral video of a group of SAE fraternity members singing a racist chant on a chartered bus. A few days later, a fraternity chapter at Pennsylvania State University was suspended after members allegedly operated a Facebook page collecting pictures of nude, unconscious women.

But the University of Maryland has taken a slightly different approach, focusing on rehabilitation and education in dealing with a somewhat similar situation. On Wednesday, university president Wallace D. Loh sent a note to the campus community explaining the results of the investigation and the decision not to expel. Quoting Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, he urged students who were harmed by the hateful speech to think in terms of restorative justice rather than legal justice.

When any one of us is harmed by the hateful speech of another, all of us are harmed, Loh wrote. We repair the harm to our community, in part, by restoring the wrongdoer as a responsible member of society. I appeal to the better angels of our nature and ask all members of our University community to join me in forgiving him in our hearts, not for his sake, but for our own.

The student will not return to campus this semester, and will perform community service as well as participate in individualized training in diversity and cultural competence. In an apology released by the university, the student wrote: Im committed to being a better person, a person that appreciates differences.

The University of Oklahoma came under fire from civil liberties advocates after its March expulsions, who said they had violated the free speech rights of the students. Federal law prohibits schools from failing to address behavior serious enough to create a hostile environment for a member of a protected class, such as a woman or a minority student.

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