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Tag: law-library

Burch v. Barker

Legal
September 2, 2014October 5, 2020 Student Press Law Center

As the 1983 school year wound down at Lindbergh High School in Renton, Washington, five seniors decided to print an underground newspaper.

Tagged law-library

Burch v. Barker

Legal
September 2, 2014October 5, 2020 Student Press Law Center

As the 1983 school year wound down at Lindbergh High School in Renton, Washington, five seniors decided to print an underground newspaper.

Tagged law-library

O'Brien v. Welty

Legal
September 2, 2014October 5, 2020 Student Press Law Center

Neil O’Brien, a conservative student activist attending California State University-Fresno, was disciplined in September 2011 after he confronted two professors at their offices, with a video camera rolling, asking questions about their involvement in a campus magazine that O’Brien believed to be liberally biased.

Tagged amicus brief, law-library

Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus

Legal
September 2, 2014October 5, 2020 Student Press Law Center

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

People v. Marquan M.

Legal
September 2, 2014October 5, 2020 Student Press Law Center

The Mackey-Meggs case is part of the first wave of legal challenges to state statutes making it a crime to engage in “cyberbullying” or other acts of online cruelty.

Tagged amicus brief, law-library

Elonis v. United States

Legal
September 2, 2014October 5, 2020 Student Press Law Center

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

Legal
September 2, 2014October 5, 2020 Student Press Law Center

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

Tagged amicus brief, law-library

Joyner v. Whiting

Legal
September 2, 2014October 5, 2020 Student Press Law Center

At North Carolina Central University, a historically black university, student newspaper The Campus Echo published in 1971 front-page content “expressing some considerable dissatisfaction” with the increasing number of white and non-black students at the university.

Tagged law-library

Mink v. Suthers

Legal
September 2, 2014October 5, 2020 Student Press Law Center

In December 2003, Thomas Mink published articles on his website that criticized Junius Peake, finance professor at his school, the University of Northern Colorado.

Tagged amicus brief, law-library

Lane v. Simon

Legal
September 2, 2014October 5, 2020 Student Press Law Center

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.

Tagged advisers, amicus brief, law-library

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