The First Amendment proved a crucial tool during the civil rights movement. Likewise, much First Amendment jurisprudence arose during the galvanizing social movement of the 1950s and 1960s, as civil rights protestors marched in the streets, protested segregation laws, assembled on public streets and faced defamation suits for speaking out on public abuses. Consider the […]
Author Archive | David Hudson, guest-blogging
On Campus Versus Off Campus
One of the most pressing issues in student-speech jurisprudence concerns when school officials can punish public school students for posting profane, racy, bullying or otherwise objectionable material online. Several federal courts of appeals have weighed in on the issue, heightening the possibility of U.S. Supreme Court review. A court – as some concurring judges did […]