A student at Valdosta State University in Georgia, expelled last year for posting activist flyers on Facebook, says he still doesn’t understand why the administration took such extreme action against him.
The student, Hayden Barnes, was attempting to raise awareness about a new parking garage development being built on campus when he posted the flyer in […]
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Posted in Freedom of Speech on Feb 18th, 2008
The Yale Daily News printed a criticism Thursday of the legal threats that have been leveled by the Yale Women’s Center against a university fraternity whose pledges posed for photos outside the center with signs that said “We Love Yale Sluts.”
Representatives with the women’s center said they felt threatened while trying to approach the building, […]
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Posted in Freedom of Speech on Jan 27th, 2008
Massachusetts anti-abortion protesters are contesting a state law requiring them to stay at least 35 feet away from the entrances of clinics where abortions are performed.
The protesters, who filed suit January 18, say the law violates their First Amendment rights of free speech and free assembly.
Proponents of the bill, including the state’s Planned Parenthood offices, […]
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Posted in Freedom of Speech on Jan 19th, 2008
Mike Huckabee spoke out this week against push polling, a negative campaign tactic in which a candidate’s supporters (typically outside interest groups) conduct spurious telephone polls containing questions with negative or false information about other candidates.
Huckabee told NPR that he would like to see stricter regulation of this type of campaigning, which is reaching millions […]
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