US student loses free speech case
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A former pupil loses his case in the first big US Supreme Court ruling on students' free speech rights in 20 years.
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A Muslim group lost a libel case on Friday against the leader of a Danish anti-immigrant party who had accused its members of treason for publicizing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
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A high school student who was suspended for unfurling a banner saying "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" did not have his rights violated, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday in its first major decision on student free-speech rights in nearly 20 years.
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An atheist lost his bid Wednesday to have the Supreme Court bar the saying of a prayer at President Bush's inauguration.
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By RYAN J. FOLEY  MADISON, Wis. - A state appeals court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by a boy who wanted to compete on his high school's girls' gymnastics team.
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The US Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a bid by journalists and professors to challenge the legality of the US administration's wire-tapping program.
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Closing arguments have completed in a trial aimed at overturning a 1998 law aimed at curbing pornography. While proponents of the law saw it is necessary to prevent children from viewing objectionable material, opponents say it hurts free speech.
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A judge dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. Navy that was filed by the family of a Naval Academy student who died in a fall from his dormitory window.
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The U.S. government on Friday lost a court bid to prevent terrorism detainees gaining access to all readily available documents about them as they challenge their indefinite imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay.
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A state appeals court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by a boy who wanted to compete on his high school's girls' gymnastics team.
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The US Supreme Court rules that the race of a child cannot be used to determine the school he or she goes to.
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The Supreme Court rejected the claim by a high school football powerhouse in Tennessee that its coachâs recruiting violations were a form of free speech.
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An Egyptian student detained after a pilot's aviation radio was found in his hotel room following the Sept. 11 attacks should be allowed to sue an FBI agent over his imprisonment, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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A South African scholar was barred from the United States because of his criticism of U.S. policy in Iraq and the Guantanamo Bay prisoner camp, a civil rights group said in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
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TechWeb - A lawyer, who has signed on to represent a Harvard student being sued by Apple Computer, said he will seek to dismiss the case on First Amendment free-speech grounds within two weeks.
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A lawyer specializing in freedom of speech and the Internet said Wednesday he will defend free of charge a 19-year-old publisher of a Web site facing a lawsuit over an article that revealed trade secrets about an Apple computer.
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Searching for meaning in the case of Andrew Meyer, the Florida college student whose rant at a campus appearance by Senator John Kerry was forcibly cut short by police.