For those out there who trust government too much, I present to you a case of government bureaucracy gone too far, as well as the lawsuit that said “no.” A few months back, I took note of a case wherein North Carolina was trying to force Amazon to give up records in order to collect […]
Tattoos: Free speech on your body
September 10, 2010 by
Image by megabn via Flickr While I suppose it would be plausible for other circuits to deal with tattoos as political speech, it’s really no surprise that it was the the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in Anderson v. City of Hermosa Beach, that actually did. And that found them to be speech. Some […]
Proposition 8 overturned; next stop, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
August 4, 2010 by
Just moments ago, the Judge Vaughn Walker of the US District Court for the Northern District of California overturned Proposition 8, declaring it unconstitutional. And, predictably per their promise, the legal team defending Prop 8 has sought a stay pending appeal. In court papers filed Tuesday night, lawyers for the Proposition 8 defense team asked […]
Money and Free Speech
July 6, 2010 by
In favor of campaign finance laws that limit speech, have you ever heard the argument that “money isn’t speech?” Truth of the matter is, it’s probably not. But there’s a caveat… Apply this argument to other constitutional rights, and the argument starts to dissipate like dew in the morning sun. Says Eugene Volokh, a constitutional […]
Amazon v. North Carolina: taxes on internet purchases, or “Big Brother” in N.C.
April 21, 2010 by
One of my favorite things about Amazon–other than that I can shop and never have to leave my desk–is that I can avoid paying taxes on my purchase (as well as shipping, if I can buy enough books, which, honestly, is almost never a problem. Quite the contrary. But I digress…). There have been several […]
School Uniforms: Constitutional Infringement of Free Speech?
March 26, 2010 by
Well, are they? A friend (not a lawyer) corrected me when I mentioned that kids don’t have full First Amendment rights of free speech saying that “but their parents do and forcing kids to wear school uniforms without their parents’ consent may be unconstitutional.” So….now I’ve got to look it up. What do you think?
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