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Racial Defamation As Free Speech: Abusing The First Amendment, Kenneth Lasson Oct 1985

Racial Defamation As Free Speech: Abusing The First Amendment, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

The traditional view of the first amendment's free speech guarantee as absolute, allowing few and narrow exceptions, reflects the Constitution's dedication to an open and unfettered exchange of ideas. Those thoughts that are abhorrent to a free society, the argument goes, will wither when aired but fester if suppressed. Moreover, who is to decide which ideas are offensive? The interests of the state may well be inferior to those of the people, the wisdom of public servants often suspect in quality and motivation. But freedom of speech is so precious and delicate a liberty it must be preserved at great …


Bowen V. Roy, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1985

Bowen V. Roy, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

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Witters V. Washington Department Of Services For Blind, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1985

Witters V. Washington Department Of Services For Blind, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Goldman V. Weinberger, Lewis F. Powell Jr Oct 1985

Goldman V. Weinberger, Lewis F. Powell Jr

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


In Defense Of Group-Libel Laws, Or Why The First Amendment Should Not Protect Nazis, Kenneth Lasson Apr 1985

In Defense Of Group-Libel Laws, Or Why The First Amendment Should Not Protect Nazis, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

The author discusses group libel laws, and the underlying problems when free speech is used as a defense by those who would defame specific racial or ethnic groups and/or minorities. The topic is further explained in reference to various state laws, and the subsequent court cases extant at the time of the article's writing which defined the issue in terms of law. References are also made to such laws in countries other than the United States for the sake of comparison.


Judicial Review Of The Zoning Of Adult Entertainment: A Search For The Purposeful Suppression Of Protected Speech, Alfred C. Yen Feb 1985

Judicial Review Of The Zoning Of Adult Entertainment: A Search For The Purposeful Suppression Of Protected Speech, Alfred C. Yen

Alfred C. Yen

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Book Review, Pierre Schlag Jan 1985

Book Review, Pierre Schlag

Publications

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The First Amendment And Distributional Voting Rights Controversies, Emily M. Calhoun Jan 1985

The First Amendment And Distributional Voting Rights Controversies, Emily M. Calhoun

Publications

No abstract provided.


Rules And Standards, Pierre Schlag Jan 1985

Rules And Standards, Pierre Schlag

Publications

No abstract provided.


Attitudinal And Legal Factors In Professional Advertising, Ruth Bogatyrow Kraft Jan 1985

Attitudinal And Legal Factors In Professional Advertising, Ruth Bogatyrow Kraft

Journal of Law and Health

This Article is concerned with advertising by professionals, a phenomenon which has taken on greater importance and become more controversial as its impact has grown over the past decade. Part II of this Article discusses the legal precedents which permitted the development of professional advertising in general. In Part III the body of literature concerning professional and consumer attitudes towards promotional behavior is reviewed. Part IV presents and evaluates the initial results of a survey of plastic surgeons. The promotional attitudes of plastic surgeons are an especially interesting subject of study, as advertising by this medical sub-specialty presents in a …


Student Publications, The First Amendment, And State Speech, T. D. Buckley Jr. Jan 1985

Student Publications, The First Amendment, And State Speech, T. D. Buckley Jr.

Cleveland State Law Review

The lower federal courts and state courts have been applying the first amendment in student press cases arising at public colleges and high schools since 1967. But ordinary first amendment analysis is inadequate in most student press disputes. As a result the courts in some cases have been unable to articulate satisfactorily the bases for good decisions. And in other cases the real issues generated in student press litigations have been ignored. This Article evaluates the cases so far decided, and proposes a new approach to student press disputes which would rationalize what the courts have intuitively done correctly in …