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- Playboy decision could protect ads; Ruling puts pressure on government to prove need for speech curbs.
- The Supreme Court's decision overturning a curb on the Playboy TV Network could have a significant impact on other attempts by the government to regulate content and advertising on TV and the Internet. First Amendment and advertising lawyers said l The Supreme Court's decision...
- Research articles 2000-05-29
- Tough talk on First Amendment.(Fast Track)(United States Constitution. 1st Amendment)(regulations of broadcast journalists)(Brief Article)
- The White House, the courts and the FCC all took hits from broadcast journalists who said last week that they were feeling under fire from a manipulative and even malicious government. NBC News President Neal Shapiro set the tone, telling a ro...
- Research articles 2005-03-14
- Lamb slams FTC plan. (Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network Chairman Brian Lamb criticizes Federal Trade Commission plan to force Time Warner Inc. cable systems to carry competitive news service)(Brief Article)
- Says forcing TW systems to carry news channel is violation of First Amendment The Federal Trade Commission's plan to force some Time Warner cable systems to carry an additional, competitive 24-hour news service is antithetical to First Amendm ...
- Research articles 1996-12-02
- Investigating Terrorism: The Role Of The First Amendment
- In the wake of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the US Government launched a massive investigation to uncover those responsible for the attacks and to thwart future terrorist activity. In this connection, the Government also enacted a policy that denies public access to deportation hearings in cases allegedly...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- Protecting Free Speech and Expression: The First Amendment and Land Use Law. (Books and References: Land Use).
- The American Bar Association (Chicago, IL) has published Protecting Free Speech and Expression: The First Amendment and Land Use Law, a paperbound book targeted to counsel dealing with state and local government land use regulation and limitations pl The American Bar Association (Chicago, IL) has published...
- Research articles 2002-04-30
- Converging First Amendment principles for converging communications media.(Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment)
- The government should abandon its dual First Amendment models for regulating broadcasting and all other media as if they were different. Currently, all media except broadcasting are regulated according to the principles that editorial control should reside in private hands and not the government's, government should encourage access and diversity,...
- Research articles 1995-05-01
- The First Amendment in cyberspace.(Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment)
- There are currently three First Amendment free speech models in the US, but it is unclear which one would best guide government regulation of electronic communications technologies. The marketplace model would narrowly limit government regulation. The Madisonian model envisions shared government and citizen control. The Turner model, espoused by the...
- Research articles 1995-05-01
- CalPERS Settles Suit Filed by California First Amendment Coalition; Pension Fund for First Time Discloses Fees and Profits on 'Private Equity' Investments.
- Byline: California First Amendment Coalition SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 7 AScribe Newswire -- The California Public Employees' Retirement System CalPERS publicly disclosed Monday, for the first time, the management fees it pays to individual venture capital, hedge, and other private equity funds in which CalPERS...
- Research articles 2004-12-07
- Our back pages: seven decades in defense of free speech.(To Protect The First Amendment)(Calendar)
- Since this magazine's inception more than 70 years ago, B&C has been a steadfast defender of the First Amendment. Current events in Washington prove that it will always be necessary to keep up the fight. As the nation celebrates its freedoms this July week, we've excerpted...
- Research articles 2004-07-05
- Fighting for the First Amendment. (book reviews)
- A new book tells how broadcasting almost lost it on the First Amendment The Selling of the Pentagon was neither the beginning nor the end of the broadcast press's problems with government, but it recommends itself as a case history. In great...
- Research articles 1997-09-15
- First Amendment efforts fall short.
- The Media Institute still is not happy with the government's efforts to uphold First Amendment rights. In its annual assessment, the Washington nonprofit group last week awarded the judicial branch a "B-", while giving "D" grades to the administration, Congress, and state and local governments. "The...
- Research articles 1999-03-15
- NRA's Wayne LaPierre on Supreme Court's campaign-finance decision, in Washington Post: "The most significant change in the First Amendment since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which tried to make it a crime to criticize a member of Congress&quo
- * NRA's Wayne LaPierre on Supreme Court's campaign-finance decision, in Washington Post: "the most significant change in the First Amendment since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which tried to make it a crime to criticize a member of Congress." ... ACLU's Anthony D. Romero: "The notion that the...
- Research articles 2003-12-31
- Does Imus' trash talk hurt First Amendment?
- Some critics are complaining that the foul mouth of Don Imus shows that the First Amendment goes too far in its guarantee of free press and free speech. Just the opposite is true. When idiots like Imus make fools of themselves, the press and the public...
- Research articles 2007-04-13
- Court OKs cable regs. (upheld constitutionality of cable regulations on rates and public, educational and government uses)(Brief Article)
- A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington last week upheld the constitutionality of a series of cable regulations spawned by the 1984 and 1992 cable laws. Rejecting a First Amendment challenge from Time Warner and other cable A...
- Research articles 1996-09-02
- The first amendment and campaign finance 'reform'.(Op-Ed)
- When the Supreme Court, 5 to 4, declared the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform legislation constitutional on December 10, there were hosannas from Common Cause, New York University's Brennan Center for Justice, and other good-government enclaves. The Washington Post called it "one of [the Supreme...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- The Senate Bill: Abortion And The Individual Mandate's Constitutionality
- Abortion. Early drafts of the health reform legislation attempted to ignore the issue of abortion, but in American politics, abortion is an issue that refuses to be ignored. The problem is that current federal law only permits public funding for abortions involving rape, incest, or physical endangerment to the life...
- News items 2009-11-21
- NBC President Bob Wright reiterated NBC's stand against government-prompted TV ratings and warned journalists of other dangers to their freedoms from court decisions.
- NBC President Bob Wright reiterated NBC's stand against government-prompted TV ratings and warned journalists of other dangers to their freedoms from court decisions last week. In Washington Thursday to accept the First Amendment Leadership Award f NBC President Bob Wright reiterated NBC's stand against...
- Research articles 1999-03-15
- Medimmune v. Genentech: Noerr-Pennington Doctrine Applies to Patent Settlement And PTO Proceedings
- The Noerr-Pennington doctrine immunizes petitioning conduct protected by the First Amendment from the antitrust laws. It applies even where the petitioning party seeks legislation or other government action that is anticompetitive. The filing and pr The Noerr-Pennington doctrine immunizes petitioning conduct protected by the First...
- Research articles 2004-06-15
- Label language standoff between manufacturers and FDA. (Regulatory Watch).(Food and Drug Administration)(Brief Article)
- FOOD MANUFACTURERS ARE RAISING FIRST Amendment issues in their battle with FDA over what words can and cannot appear in food labels. The National Food Processors Association NFPA says the government "should permit, even encourage, the communic FOOD MANUFACTURERS ARE RAISING FIRST Amendment issues in their...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- Court upholds heart of Cable Act; Time Warner vows to appeal but is pleased that three provisions are found unconstitutional. (Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992)
- Rejecting the cable industry claim to the First Amendment's top rank, a federal judge last Thursday upheld the government's right to regulate cable rates and programing distribution and TV stations' right to demand compensation from cable systems t Rejecting the cable industry claim to...
- Research articles 1993-09-20
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