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The Supreme Court has protected anonymous speech under the First Amendment in areas of political activity, balancing it against competing interests, such as disclosures of campaign donations and spending. For example, in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, it struck down an Ohio elections law that prohibited anonymous campaign literature after a woman was found in violation for distributing leaflets opposing a proposed school tax levy without her name on it as the author. (Photo of a volunteer handing out political literature at a health care reform rally, taken by ACT NOW, via Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-S.A. 3.0)

Anonymous Speech – 1st Amendment Speakers and writers may seek anonymity as protection against prosecution, harassment, abuse and invasions of their privacy. The government and others may seek the identification…

Donna Rice Hughes, of the anti-pornography organization Enough is Enough, meets reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington Wednesday, March 19, 1997, after the court heard arguments challenging the 1996 Communications Decency Act. The court, taking its first look at free speech on the Internet, was asked to uphold the law that makes it a crime to put indecent words or pictures online where children can find them. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, reprinted with permission from The Associated Press.)

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Communications Decency Act of 1996 (1996) – 1st Amendment

April 24, 2022 The Truth News

Communications Decency Act of 1996 (1996) Congress enacted the Communications Decency Act (CDA) as Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in an attempt to prevent minors from gaining…

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Sable Communications of California v. Federal Communications Commission (1989) – 1st Amendment

April 23, 2022 The Truth News

Sable Communications of California v. Federal Communications Commission (1989) In Sable Communications of California v. Federal Communications Commission, 492 U.S. 115 (1989), the Supreme Court established the principle that indecent…

A "ghosted" image of a teen stands before a wide array of pornographic magazines in this double exposure shot in 1964. Material that may not be obscene for adults is often considered harmful to minors and restricted. Harmful-to-minors laws seek to protect minors from such material. (AP Photo/Bob Wands, used with permission from the Associated Press)

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Harmful to Minors Laws – 1st Amendment

April 21, 2022 The Truth News

Harmful to Minors Laws Harmful-to-minors laws seek to protect minors, generally considered those seventeen and younger, from pornography, obscenity, and other material that may bring harm to them. These laws…

The Supreme Court ruled in Walker v. Sons of Confederate Veterans (2015), that the state of specialty license plates program was a form of government speech. In this photo, Henry E. Kidd, state commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, is seen during a news conference on the steps of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles in Richmond, Virgina, May 2, 2002, to discuss a proposed Confederate license plate. Kidd is holding a sample plate. (AP Photo/Mark Gormus, used with permission from the Associated Press)

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Public Forum Doctrine

April 17, 2022 The Truth News

Public Forum Doctrine The public forum doctrine is an analytical tool used in First Amendment jurisprudence to determine the constitutionality of speech restrictions implemented on government property. Courts employ this…

The Supreme Court in Roth v. United States (1957) created a new test for courts to determine whether something was unlawfully obscene. At issue was the federal indictment of Samuel Roth, a book and magazine publisher who had been charged with sending obscene materials through the mail. In this 1955 photo, Roth testifies before a Senate subcommittee investigating the effect of pornographic material upon juvenile delinquency. (AP Photo/JH, used with permission from the Associated Press)

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Roth v. United States (1957) – Obscenity – 1st Amendment

April 17, 2022 The Truth News

Roth v. United States (1957) – Obscenity – 1st Amendment The major obscenity decision in Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957), provided the basis for an important test…

This review of The Desperate Hours play in Life Magazine led to a false light claim by James Hill. False light invasion of privacy is a cause of action for portraying an individual unflatteringly or as something they are not. The Life review compared the play to real events in which the Hill family was taken hostage. Hill had said his family had been treated courteously and were not harmed in any way, and he believed Life had portrayed the events falsely for financial gain. The Supreme Court found in Time, Inc. v. Hill that Hill had to show actual malice to prevail in the false light claim.

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False Light: What is False Light?

April 12, 2022 The Truth News

False Light: What is False Light? False light invasion of privacy is a cause of action for portraying an individual unflatteringly in words or pictures as someone or something that…

The New York Times resumed publication of its series of articles based on the secret Pentagon papers in its July 1, 1971 edition, after it was given the green light by the U.S. Supreme Court in New York Times v. United States. (AP Photo/Jim Wells)

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New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) 1st Amendment – Publishing Gov Info

April 9, 2022 The Truth News

New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) Legal Principle at Issue Whether the New York Times and the Washington Post could be enjoined from publishing excerpts from a classified…

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Can You Annoy the Government? – 1st Amendment

April 9, 2022 The Truth News

Can You Annoy the Government? Supreme Courts say Nope! Civil Servants i.e. ALL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, in the course of needing to access services from these non qualified imbeciles who take…

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Perez v. Florida (2017) – 1st Amendment

April 7, 2022 The Truth News

Perez v. Florida (2017) By David L. Hudson Jr. In Perez v. Florida, 580 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the conviction of a man…