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Zoning Speech On The Internet: A Legal And Technical Model, Lawrence Lessig, Paul Resnick Nov 1999

Zoning Speech On The Internet: A Legal And Technical Model, Lawrence Lessig, Paul Resnick

Michigan Law Review

Speech, it is said, divides into three sorts - (1) speech that everyone has a right to (political speech, speech about public affairs); (2) speech that no one has a right to (obscene speech, child porn); and (3) speech that some have a right to but others do not (in the United States, Ginsberg speech, or speech that is "harmful to minors," to which adults have a right but kids do not). Speech-protective regimes, on this view, are those where category (1) speech predominates; speech-repressive regimes are those where categories (2) and (3) prevail. This divide has meaning for speech …


Arkansas Educational Television Commission V. Forbes: Ending Debate On Political Debates, Daniel B. Greenfield Mar 1999

Arkansas Educational Television Commission V. Forbes: Ending Debate On Political Debates, Daniel B. Greenfield

Mercer Law Review

In Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes, the Supreme Court of the United States addressed whether, and under what circumstances, a public television network may exclude a so-called "minor" candidate from its televised debate. The Court, voting six to three, reversed the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and upheld the right of the Arkansas Educational Television Commission to exclude the candidate. The Court held that the debate was a nonpublic forum and that a broadcaster could limit debate participants in the reasonable exercise of its journalistic discretion so long as the candidate …


Pledges, Parades, And Mandatory Payments, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 1999

Pledges, Parades, And Mandatory Payments, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

This Article examines the Supreme Court's treatment of compelled expression cases. It sets forth the speech restraint framework by describing the crucial determinations guiding judicial analysis. It then explains the current results, reasoning, and incoherence of the compelled expression cases. This Article isolates and evaluates the variables that the Court claims are significant to compelled expression analysis. It then adjusts the variables according to the free speech clause values evident in speech restraint analysis to create a coherent doctrine of compelled expression. This doctrine both places past cases within a consistent framework and provides a structure for evaluating future compelled …


Free Speech, Animal Law, And Food Activism, Howard F. Lyman Jan 1999

Free Speech, Animal Law, And Food Activism, Howard F. Lyman

Animal Law Review

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New York City Zones Out Free Expression, Martin A. Schwartz Jan 1999

New York City Zones Out Free Expression, Martin A. Schwartz

Scholarly Works

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