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Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus

September 2, 2014

In a 2013 ruling, a federal appeals court in Cincinnati threw out a First Amendment challenge by an anti-abortion political committee that sought to invalidate an Ohio law penalizing factually false speech in the course of political campaigns.

Tagged , amicus brief, law-library

Elonis v. United States

September 2, 2014

Convicted of making threats against his estranged wife and law-enforcement officers via posts on his Facebook page, Anthony Elonis challenged the conviction as a violation of his First Amendment rights.

Tagged , amicus brief, law-library

Lange v. Diercks

September 2, 2014

Journalism teacher Ben Lange refused to engage in censorship that he saw unlawful based on the Iowa Student Free Expression Law.

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Lane v. Simon

September 2, 2014

In spring 2004, Kansas State Collegian adviser Ron Johnson was fired after the school’s journalism director reviewed the paper and said he found the overall quality to be poor.

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R.O v. Ithaca

September 2, 2014

The student newspaper at Ithaca High School, The Tattler, wrote an editorial questioning whether their sex education classes needed to go into such explicit detail.

Tagged , amicus brief, R.O v. Ithaca

Ochsner v. Elon University

August 29, 2014

On March 2010, Elon University student journalist Nick Ochsner requested records about an on-campus arrest by campus police.

Tagged , amicus brief, campus police records, elon university, Ochsner v. Elon University, private college police records

Cal State Fullerton journalists honored with Betty Gage Holland investigative reporting award

July 29, 2014

The Daily Titan at California State University, Fullerton is the 2013-14 winner of the University of Georgia’s Betty Gage Holland Award for excellence in college journalism.

Tagged , press-release

SPLC joins open-government leaders urging Congress to hold hearings on FERPA reform

June 11, 2014

Six leading open-government organizations, including the Student Press Law Center, called Wednesday for congressional hearings on the rampant abuse of the federal student privacy law, FERPA, which enables schools and colleges to conceal scandals by misclassifying government documents as “education records.”

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SPLC joins coalition urging New York to overturn criminal penalties for online bullying

May 5, 2014

A coalition of nonprofit advocates supporting a positive school learning climate joined Monday in urging a New York court to declare unconstitutional a statute that makes “cyberbullying” a crime punishable by a year in jail.

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SPLC urges FCC to consider leniency from indecency fines for student broadcast operations

June 20, 2013

In comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission, the Student Press Law Center urges the Commission to reconsider a strict enforcement regime that threatens broadcasters who air “fleeting” profanity with fines that can exceed the entire yearly budget for a student-run radio station.

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