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From:The Quill (Vol. 89, Issue 8)Significant numbers of Americans believe that freedom of the press is a problem for our society rather than a solution. In fact, nearly half of the respondents in the most recent State of the First Amendment survey...
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From:Federal Communications Law Journal (Vol. 62, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedJournalists who use secret sources may be presented with a staggering dilemma--disclose the source to comply with a subpoena or go to jail to protect the source. Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Branzburg v....
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From:Stanford Law Review (Vol. 55, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Although courts often express reservations about defining "the press," (1) they are rarely reserved in their praise of the press as an institution. As is often said, the press serves the important...
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From:ABA Journal (Vol. 99, Issue 6)Corporations, like individuals, have the right to engage in political speech, the U.S. Supreme Court said three years ago. The "corporate identity" of a speaker did not justify a reduced level of free speech protection,...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 45, Issue 26)China's academics and working intellectuals say the government's attitude toward liberties constantly waver between tolerance and repression. It is understood what topics are to be publicly avoided: criticism of...
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From:Notre Dame Law Review (Vol. 96, Issue 3)In a variety of ways, sex offenders in the United States find themselves in a difficult position. One of the lesser-known ways relates to the free exercise of religion. Sometimes by categorical statute, and sometimes by...
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From:The Quill (Vol. 91, Issue 2)Keep your eyes on Illinois. Thanks in large measure to the Chicago Headline Club (the Chicago SPJ chapter), media organizations have worked with local government leaders and Illinois' new attorney general to improve...
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From:The Quill (Vol. 91, Issue 4)This article is an abridged version of a forthcoming essay to be published by the Cornerstone Project, The Media Institute's public awareness and education program celebrating the First Amendment. SPJ is a member of the...
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From:Global Jurist Advances (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article is based upon a paper presented at the Third Meeting of the European-American Law and Religion Consortium: The Permissible Scope of Legal Limitations on the Freedom of Religion or Belief: A...
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From:Yale Law Journal (Vol. 130, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe U.S. classification system leaves billions of documents hidden from view. Any departure from secrecy therefore grabs headlines worldwide. Presidents and others leverage the system by leaking or planting information...
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From:Michigan Law Review (Vol. 119, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCrisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) are antiabortion organizations that seek to "intercept" people with unintended pregnancies to convince them to forego abortion. It is well documented that CPCs intentionally present...
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From:Reference & User Services Quarterly (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIntellectual Freedom Manual, 8th ed. Office for Intellectual Freedom. Chicago: ALA, 2010. 439p. Paper $57 (ISBN-13: 978-0838935613). Over the course of its eight editions, the Intellectual Freedom Manual (IFM) from...
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From:Emergency Librarian (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs in previous editions, the 5th edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual has a helpful section titled "Before the Censor Comes". In reality, however, the entire Manual is essential reading for librarians who want to...
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From:Washington University Law Review (Vol. 97, Issue 6)ABSTRACT Religious commerce has long sat uncomfortably at the nexus of public law and private law. On the one hand, such transactions invariably have garden-variety commercial objectives, which are best achieved and...
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From:American Journalism Review (Vol. 24, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedIn a First Amendment Center/AJR survey, nearly half of those responding said they think the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees. And about the same number said the American press has been too...
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From:Communications and the Law (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe ability of private parties to create contracts is a fundamental principle in American law. Through contractual agreements, free citizens are able, subject to broad limitations, to create their own "law" to govern...
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From:Washington University Law Review (Vol. 97, Issue 6)On August 15, 1789, the First Congress met to discuss the proposed Bill of Rights. On the agenda for the day was a draft of what we now call the First Amendment, but which was their Third Amendment. It was proposed by a...
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From:The Quill (Vol. 82, Issue 8)A survey conducted by the Freedom House and The Freedom Forum reveals that a free press operates in a mere 37% of the world's countries. Press freedom peaked after the collapse of the USSR in 1989, but since then, a...
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From:The Quill (Vol. 93, Issue 5)The success of requests made under the Freedom of Information Act heavily depends on whether those requests are for an individual's personal information or whether they are for information about government related...
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From:The Quill (Vol. 77, Issue 10)Are academic freedom and FOIA at odds? When one party employs a state freedom on information act in an attempt to obtain a document from an agency of the state, and the agency invokes academic freedom as a defense,...