The Civil Liberties Minute Freedom of Speech and Expression June 3, 2010:
After T&J Towing scooped up the car of John Kurtz, a junior at Wesleyan Michigan University, Kurtz created a Facebook page to tell his story. The tow company sued him for $750,000.00.
April 28, 2010
Should videos that show disgusting, I mean really disgusting, images of pit bulls ripping apart other animals be protected by the first amendment?
April 15, 2010
Do powerful corporations have greater First Amendment rights than, say, law professors? No, this is not a trick question.
April 7, 2010:
A previous ACLU minute gave the inside scoop on how radio commentators are trying to unfairly influence your opinion.
April 7, 2010: WikiLeaks, a website that calls itself an "intelligence agency of the people," is back on the news. Listen to what Wikileaks has done now. March 23, 2010:
If you are forty years or older, I'm not saying this is a related fact, but you were born in a time when birth control was illegal. So when you walk into a store today and you see a display of Trojans with names like Pleasure Pack, and Ecstacy, what crosses your mind?
March 9, 2010:
Would you like to know a secret? How radio commentators try to influence your opinion? March 1, 2010:
Recently, a woman was standing in a store window in New York City, stark naked, when a police cruiser rolled by.
March 1, 2010: The question Shakespeare raised in Romeo and Juliet, "What's in a name?," is back in the news.
February 9, 2010: "CBS: Corporate Bullsh*t, Corporate Bullsh*t"
February 9, 2010: Can you really end up in prison for exercizing your First Amendment Rights?
January 26, 2010:
A law that prohibits a motorist from text messaging while driving clearly is an unconstitutional, government-imposed restriction on free speech. Or is it?
January 18, 2010:
In this cold winter of this Great recession does the Constitution do the hungry and the homeless any good?
January 4, 2010:
An automobile driver, as the New York Times so delicately put it, "gestured offensively with his middle finger," at another driver who, whoops, turned out to be a cop. The result may surprise you.
December 22, 2009 What's an Auld Lang Syne anyway?
December 10, 2009 The former Chief Military Prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay has been fired from his present job as a researcher at the Library of Congress for, get this, writing an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal and a letter to The Washington Post.
October 14, 2009 How far can the state go in regulating your sex life? For an answer, you might want to check out the recent ruling in Love Stuff V. The City of Hoover.
October 14, 2009 Botox recently put a few wrinkles in the free speech debate. Here's what happened.
August 21, 2009 Have you heard? President Obama wants to kill your ill and aged grandmother.
August 14, 2009 Is the Second Amendment allowed to shoot a big hole through the first?
July 29, 2009 Is it a crime to say angry words to a cop?
July 15, 2009 Take me out to the ballgame, take me out with the crowd, buy me some peanuts and... beer? Red Sox Nation will love the reason why the words temporarily have changed.
June 10, 2009 The First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech belongs not only to the person who wishes to speak, but also to the person who wishes to hear. So, I have the right to talk, and you have the right to listen, or not. I hope you'll hear me out.
