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The Seventh Circuit Hangs Up On Charitable Rights, Nicholas A.J. Wendland
The Seventh Circuit Hangs Up On Charitable Rights, Nicholas A.J. Wendland
Seventh Circuit Review
Under Indiana’s Telephone Solicitation of Consumers statute telemarketers are prohibited from calling all households who opt to place their numbers on the statewide do-not-call list. This prohibition exempts charities, as long as they refrain from using professional telemarketing companies, and rely solely on volunteers or in-house employees. For many charities, particularly ones supporting unpopular causes, telemarketing represents the most successful manner in which they can inform people of their goals and raise money. Charitable solicitation has long been recognized as a protected form of free speech, and any restriction on that right protected by constitutional scrutiny. However, in ruling on …
Stop The Presses! Seventh Circuit Censors College Student Media, Julia R. Lissner
Stop The Presses! Seventh Circuit Censors College Student Media, Julia R. Lissner
Seventh Circuit Review
Can officials at public colleges and universities in the Seventh Circuit censor student speech? How free is the college free press? In Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, the U.S. Supreme Court permitted high school administrators to censor school-sponsored speech if their actions were supported by "legitimate pedagogical concerns." However, the high court specifically stated that it was not deciding whether the same degree of deference is appropriate with respect to speech in higher education. Thus, this article argues that the Seventh Circuit's application of the Hazelwood standard to assess a student newspaper censorship claim at a Illinois public university …