FCC's ban on 'fleeting expletives' ruled unconstitutional
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TV's over-zealous profanity police rebuked by court US television regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may not have the right to police American airwaves, a court has ruled. The ruling is a blow to a George W Bush-led clampdown on on-air swearing.â¦
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A judge has ruled that Maryland's anti-spam law &#151; the first state law to penalize senders of junk e-mail &#151; is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate commerce outside the state's borders.
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A federal appeals court in New York will hear arguments Wednesday over whether the government's decisions on what constitutes indecent speech violates the First Amendment rights of broadcasters.
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An officer who arrested a man for cursing in a public meeting violated the man's right to free speech, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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The Florida Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a hastily passed law intended to keep alive a severely brain-damaged Florida woman is unconstitutional.
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U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down the Stored Communications Act as unconstitutional, protecting e-mail for the first time in 20 years.
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A federal judge ruled that a ban on a type of late-term abortion violates the US Constitution.
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A federal judge gives Pennsylvania's internet child pornography law the boot. The controversial law required ISPs to block child porn websites, but in doing so, they prohibited access to many legal sites, leading to a 'massive suppression' of free speech.
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A judge bans the word from a sexual assault case, sparking debate over freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial
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Judge says law violates free speech, orders blocking stopped.
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A federal judge in Oregon ruled yesterday that two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional, marking the second time in as many weeks that the anti-terrorism law has come under attack in the courts.
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update A federal court has struck down a Pennsylvania law that blocks access to Web sites labeled as child pornography, claiming that the rule violated the First Amendment.
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Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without showing probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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Part of the Patriot Act, a central  plank of the Bush Administration's war on terror, was ruled  unconstitutional by a federal judge on Wednesday.
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In a limited ruling, the highest U.S.  military court said that under certain circumstances, the  military's ban on sodomy was constitutional, the New York Times  said on Tuesday.
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A federal appeals court tossed out an indecency ruling against Rupert Murdoch's Fox television network today, sending a stern rebuke to the Federal Communications Commission and groups that seek tighter federal regulation of the airwaves.
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I remember seeing some discussion about the Schiavo case on DailyKos a while back. I just wanted to update that the Florida Supreme Court has ruled &quot;Terri&#39;s Law&quot; unconstitutional.