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  • Though not ignored by any stretch, the First-Amendment rights of the OccupyDenver/Wall-Street-Greed protesters need to get more air time.

    Jason Salzman: Were OccupyDenver Demonstrators "Camping" or "Protesting"? First Amendment Issues Need More Attention Jason Salzman 2011

  • Though not ignored by any stretch, the First-Amendment rights of the OccupyDenver/Wall-Street-Greed protesters need to get more air time.

    Jason Salzman: Were OccupyDenver Demonstrators "Camping" or "Protesting"? First Amendment Issues Need More Attention Jason Salzman 2011

  • The First-Amendment comparison to the free market -- that its value is in the way it encourages a competitive exchange of ideas just as there is a competitive market for goods and services -- has long been an attractive one, since markets are by definition statements of will, and if democracy stands for anything, it is the people's will.

    Todd Brewster: Turn Off the TV? Scalia's Baffling Civics Lesson Todd Brewster 2012

  • The First-Amendment comparison to the free market -- that its value is in the way it encourages a competitive exchange of ideas just as there is a competitive market for goods and services -- has long been an attractive one, since markets are by definition statements of will, and if democracy stands for anything, it is the people's will.

    Todd Brewster: Turn Off the TV? Scalia's Baffling Civics Lesson Todd Brewster 2012

  • The First-Amendment comparison to the free market -- that its value is in the way it encourages a competitive exchange of ideas just as there is a competitive market for goods and services -- has long been an attractive one, since markets are by definition statements of will, and if democracy stands for anything, it is the people's will.

    Todd Brewster: Turn Off the TV? Scalia's Baffling Civics Lesson Todd Brewster 2012

  • But there may be more obstacles down the road if the situation intensifies, according to Chip Babcock, a trial lawyer specializing in media and First-Amendment cases at Houston firm Jackson Walker, which brought suit against FEMA when it blocked journalists from covering the removal of dead bodies in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina.

    As the oil spill spreads, BP battles to contain the media 2010

  • Mr. Osgood plans to argue the decision violates the league's First-Amendment rights.

    Washington 'Wrestlers' in Smackdown with State 2009

  • If my memory serves, Ruth was basically a First-Amendment, strongly anti-Nixon person who was furious at the President for abusing the American Constitution.

    Me and the Great Zucchini at UC-Berkeley, in 1973. 2009

  • You'd know that in America, there are no such things as "free speech zones", and that every square-foot of this nation is a place where First-Amendment rightsare protected.

    If You Knew What We Know... 2008

  • Previous winners have included famed First-Amendment lawyers; the comedian Bill Maher; a high school student who successfully defended her right to form a gay/straight alliance at her Texas school; and the AP reporter who sued for the release of thousands of pages of Guantánamo Bay tribunal transcripts that revealed evidence of prisoner abuse.

    GOOD Magazine: XXX CEO 2008

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