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"Enough's Enough": Protest Law And The Tradition Of Chilling Indigenous Free Speech, Alix H. Bruce Jan 2019

"Enough's Enough": Protest Law And The Tradition Of Chilling Indigenous Free Speech, Alix H. Bruce

Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Indigenous peoples in the United States were not granted the full scope of their rights as citizens under the Constitution until the enactment of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. Before that—and after—several state and federal campaigns worked to stifle the civil rights of Indigenous peoples. Many of those unjust and unconstitutional policies were upheld by the Supreme Court. In the current era, the anti-pipeline protests on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota sparked a new recognition of Indigenous resistance under the First Amendment—and vicious state and federal backlash against Indigenous free speech via the …


Examining The Unconstitutionality Of Dilution By Tarnishment After Tam, Ryder Hogan Jan 2019

Examining The Unconstitutionality Of Dilution By Tarnishment After Tam, Ryder Hogan

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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The Ongoing Challenge To Define Free Speech, Stephen Wermiel Jan 2018

The Ongoing Challenge To Define Free Speech, Stephen Wermiel

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Should Public Buildings Be Used For Worship, Stephen Wermiel Jan 2013

Should Public Buildings Be Used For Worship, Stephen Wermiel

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Saving Their Own Souls: How Rluipa Failed To Deliver On Its Promises, Sarah Gerwig-Moore Apr 2012

Saving Their Own Souls: How Rluipa Failed To Deliver On Its Promises, Sarah Gerwig-Moore

Legislation and Policy Brief

In the summer of 2001, as a graduate student in law and theology, I began work on a master’s thesis that examined the predicament of men of faith on San Quentin’s Condemned Row. I was working in the California Appellate Project—mostly assisting with direct appeals and state habeas petitions on behalf of men under a death sentence—when a colleague guided me into theological conversations with some of our clients. On Condemned Row, they waited—up to five years to be assigned a court-appointed appellate attorney, on judges’ rulings, and to find whether the legal system would ultimately exact the penalty it …


The Suffocation Of Free Speech Due To The "Gravity Of Danger" Of Terrorism, Tim Davis Jan 2006

The Suffocation Of Free Speech Due To The "Gravity Of Danger" Of Terrorism, Tim Davis

The Modern American

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The Right To Say No To Discrimination: A Commentary On Rumsfeld V. Fair, Zachary Wolfe Jan 2006

The Right To Say No To Discrimination: A Commentary On Rumsfeld V. Fair, Zachary Wolfe

The Modern American

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Living By The Sword: The Free Exercise Of Religion And The Sikh Struggle For The Right To Carry A Kirpan, Rishi S. Bagga Jan 2006

Living By The Sword: The Free Exercise Of Religion And The Sikh Struggle For The Right To Carry A Kirpan, Rishi S. Bagga

The Modern American

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Disfavored Speech About Favored Rights: Hill V. Colorado, The Vanishing Public Forum And The Need For An Objective Speech Discrimination Test, Jamin B. Raskin, Clark L. Leblanc Jan 2001

Disfavored Speech About Favored Rights: Hill V. Colorado, The Vanishing Public Forum And The Need For An Objective Speech Discrimination Test, Jamin B. Raskin, Clark L. Leblanc

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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