[initial action] Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of a student prohibited from engaging in constitutionally protected free speech at Thomas Nelson Community College.
[response] The State Board for Community Colleges on Tuesday altered a 1960s-era policy restricting student speech that had been challenged as unconstitutional in federal court and was out of compliance with a new state law.
Respondents defended on the ground that the application 209 of the compulsory-attendance law violated their rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
Describes a violation of first amendment rights in video games, as well as four tests that are used to decide if first amendment rights are being violated.
The First Amendment includes the establishment of freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion. This piece focuses on a particular sub-issue regarding churches and whether or not taxation affects their duties/mission.
In New York City, a police officer arrested Ruban An in 2014 for videoing a police officer in a public place. The officer claimed that Ruban was blocking the sidewalk, and when the man refused to show his ID he also booked him for refusing arrest. Now, in July 2016 Ruban is suing the New York Police Department (NYPD) for infringing on his First Amendment rights.
Norman v. State (FL) is the case of a concealed carry licensee who was arrested and prosecuted in Fort Pierce, FL (info posted on Carry Florida, those representing Norman in court).
The article discusess gun laws governing in Wisconsin. Topics discussed include country's historic affinity for open carry and the rapid and continuing expansion of gun carry rights; gun laws governing Second Amendment to U.S. Constitution; and the U.S. Supreme Court cases District of Columbia v. Heller, and McDonald v. City of Chicago on the same.
Heidy v. United States Customs Service is a case which challenged the authority of U.S. Customs officials to seize and copy the written materials of travelers to Nicaragua.
On December 2, 2015, a terrorist attack occurred at San Bernardino.The police confiscated an apple iPhone 5c from one of the suspects involved in the shooting. The FBI contacted Apple CEO Tim Cook to have Apple technicians create a software to allow the FBI to bypass the Apple security system. Tim Cook rejected the request of the FBI.
