The Tweet Heard Around the World: Thwarting Censorship in Iran, One...
The Iranian government, never a proponent of free expression, has ramped up its practice of filtering its citizens’ access to social networking websites following Friday’s election and the ensuing...
View ArticleReport Card: HEALTH
GRADE: B - The push to teach abstinence-only education landed Health Education (primarily sexual education) in an abysmal place. As we have explained on the NCAC website, government funding-based...
View ArticleUpdate on Citizens United v. FEC: Campaign Finance Reform and Free Speech
Earlier this year, we covered Citizens United v. FEC, a Supreme Court case on the constitutionality of federal election laws. As we explained in April, “the Court, among other things, needs to...
View ArticleFairness, not free-speech, at stake in Citizens United vs. FEC case?
On Wednesday, September 9th , the Supreme Court reheard arguments in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission (see our coverage of this case here and here). The issues addressed in...
View ArticleThe FCC Favors Net Neutrality
On Monday, FCC Chair Julius Genachowski announced the commission’s support of net neutrality, a principle which holds that Internet Service Providers (e.g. Comcast, Verizon, Time-Warner, AT&T)...
View ArticleAgainst Gov. Deval Patrick and the Massachusetts State Senate’s wishes, UMass...
The attempted cancellation of Ray Luc Levasseur’s talk at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, under pressure from Governor Patrick’s office, raises serious concerns not only about the state of...
View ArticleForget staging “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”
This week, in a decision that is likely to limit what theaters decide to produce, Colorado’s Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on theatrical smoking. The 2006 Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act prohibits...
View ArticleNiche-Niche: Wikipedia refuses to remove content contrary to German lawyer’s...
The First Amendment provides American-based websites with the freedom to report on newsworthy events, including those that happen in other countries to citizens of other countries. Yet, the global...
View ArticleSchool’s Punishment Runs Afoul of First Amendment Freedoms Online: J.C. v....
Schools that dish out draconian punishments to students who are mean to each other online (aka cyberbullying) risk running afoul of the First Amendment. Beverly Vista School, a K-8 school in the...
View ArticleWardrobe Malfunction Back in Court: An Update
While the display of Janet Jackson’s naked breast and nipple during a 2005 CBS broadcast of the Superbowl may have been fleeting, the legal ramifications stemming from the incident are anything but....
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