Tag: First Amendment
Cops and Occupiers
The NYPD’s strategy for responding to Occupy Wall Street could be more effective at protecting the protestors’ First Amendment rights.
25 Oct 2011
Say What You Mean: Credit Ratings, Speech and the Law
Ria Dutta explores how the First Amendment may interface with credit ratings, with an eye on recent activity by Standard & Poor’s.
15 Aug 2011
Forums and Foxholes: Garb Statutes and the First Amendment by Candice Andalia
It is an oft-quoted tenet, originating with the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist.,[1] that teachers do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”[2] However, this sweeping language, an avowal that once provided educators with broad protections, is now nothing…
19 Nov 2010