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A Benign Prior Restraint Rule For Public School Classroom Speech, Scott R. Bauries
A Benign Prior Restraint Rule For Public School Classroom Speech, Scott R. Bauries
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This Article is a contribution to a symposium on schools and free speech. It advances the claim that the First Amendment doctrines that apply to the classroom should adopt a benign prior restraint rule. In the case of teacher classroom speech, the Garcetti rule should apply where the government’s action in interfering with the speech constitutes a prior restraint—the First Amendment should not reach such interference. In cases where a teacher first speaks and then is later punished for that speech, however, basic notions of due process and the dangers of arbitrary governmental decision making are far more pressing, and …
Snyder V. Phelps: A Hard Case That Did Not Make Bad Law, Paul E. Salamanca
Snyder V. Phelps: A Hard Case That Did Not Make Bad Law, Paul E. Salamanca
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In Snyder v. Phelps, the Court stood by the First Amendment in hard times. A religious group conducted a protest some 1,000 feet from a fallen marine's funeral, holding such pickets as “God Hates the USA,” “Thank God for Dead Soldiers,” and “You're Going to Hell.” Despite the empathy that virtually anyone would feel for the marine's grieving father, the Court held by a vote of eight to one that his action for intentional infliction of emotional distress and intrusion upon seclusion could not survive, owing largely to the public nature of the issues the protesters had raised. “Hard …
Prior Restraint In Wartime, Paul E. Salamanca
Prior Restraint In Wartime, Paul E. Salamanca
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In this article for Bench & Bar Magazine (the Kentucky Bar Association's magazine), Professor Paul E. Salamanca discusses the First Amendment during times of war or conflict.