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7 things you need to know about the First Amendment
WebThere’s also no citizenship requirement for First Amendment protection. If you’re in the U.S., you have freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition. The First Amendment is neither “left-wing” or “right-wing.”. It can be used to push for social and political change, or to oppose change. The First Amendment is for everyone.
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Free Speech Center First Amendment Encyclopedia MTSU
WebAllows us to worship as we wish and prevents government from establishing or endorsing a religion. How to contribute. The Free Speech Center operates with your generosity! Please donate now! The Free Speech Center is the most-visited resource on First Amendment freedoms, with free daily news reports and comprehensive First …
Coronavirus and the First Amendment
WebThe First Amendment guarantees both the free exercise of religion and the right to peaceable assembly. The scholarly consensus appears to be that states and localities have the right to take actions consistent with their state police powers over matters of local health and welfare, which are recognized by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S
Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1969 (1969)
WebWritten by Dennis Miles, published on January 1, 2009 , last updated on February 18, 2024. Congress passed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act of 1969 to regulate the advertising of tobacco products. Litigation over the constitutionality of its effect on speech reached the Supreme Court in 1972.
Hill v. Colorado (2000)
WebThe Supreme Court in Hill v. Colorado (2000) upheld a 1993 state statute regulating protestors outside health facilities because it did not regulate speech, but rather only regulated where some speech may occur.. Hill challenged statute regulating protestors outside health facilities . Leila Hill and other “sidewalk counselors” who protested …
Sorrell v. IMS Health (2011)
WebIn Sorrel v. IMS Health Inc., 564 U.S. 552 (2011), six members of the U.S. Supreme Court, led by Justice Anthony Kennedy, struck down Vermont’s Prescription Confidentiality Law, also known as Act 80. The law restricted the disclosure, sale and use of pharmacy records that revealed the prescribing practices of individual doctors.
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
WebIn Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), the Supreme Court invalidated a Connecticut law that made it a crime to use birth control devices or to advise anyone about their use.Relying in part on penumbras from the First Amendment, this landmark decision elaborated the right to privacy that subsequently became the basis for …
Religious Rights of Pharmacists and Morning-After Pills
WebFor religious reasons, some pharmacists refuse to dispense morning-after pill. The issue of a pharmacist’s rights to refuse to fill a prescription for emergency contraception — mostly known as the morning-after pill — because of religious objections has arisen before. In 2015, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Washington
Christian Scientists
WebChristian Science practitioner Mark Unger poses for a portrait in his home, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2006, in Ashland, Mass. In the case of Christian Scientists and others who opt for alternative care either out of personal preference or religious belief, the state has to decide if health care always equals medical care.
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)
WebIn Webster v.Reproductive Health Services (492 U.S. 501), the U.S. Supreme Court in 1989 upheld several provisions of a Missouri law that regulated the performance of abortions. The Court refused to invalidate the law’s preamble stating that life begins at conception. The Court in Webster also upheld several other provisions of the Missouri …
Blood Transfusions and Medical Care against Religious Beliefs
WebA 41-year-old woman, whose refusal of blood because of her religious beliefs was backed by a judge, died. In 1982 in Chicago, a Jehovah’s Witness with a leg amputation was given court-ordered blood transfusions to keep him alive so that his children would have a father. Another Jehovah’s Witness, injured in a road accident, refused blood
Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton (2017)
WebAlthough the Court did not mention either rationale, they were probably a background consideration in the case of Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton, 581 U.S. ____ (2017), which chiefly focused on statutory interpretation. The opinion involved a class-action suit brought by employees of three church-affiliated nonprofits who hoped to …
Time, Place and Manner Restrictions
WebTime, place and manner restrictions are content-neutral limitations imposed by the government on expressive activity. Such restrictions come in many forms, such as imposing limits on the noise level of speech, capping the number of protesters who may occupy a given forum, barring early-morning or late-evening demonstrations, and …
Commercial Speech
WebCommercial speech is a form of protected communication under the First Amendment, but it does not receive as much free speech protection as forms of noncommercial speech, such as political speech. Commercial speech, as the Supreme Court iterated in Valentine v. Chrestensen (1942), had historically not been viewed as …
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (2014)
WebRev. Bruce Prescott, left, leads a vigil outside a Hobby Lobby store in Edmond, Okla., Monday, June 30, 2014, in opposition to Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (2014) in which the Court said that some companies like the Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby chain of arts-and-craft stores can avoid the contraceptives requirement in …
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994 (1994)
WebThe Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994 (FACE) makes it a federal crime to physically obstruct the entrance to a clinic or to use force, the threat of force, or physical obstruction, such as a sit-in, to interfere with, injure, or intimidate clinic workers or women seeking abortions or other reproductive health services.
Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 (1947)
WebThe Taft-Hartley Act, known officially as the Labor-Management Relations Act, was passed by Congress on June 23, 1947, over a veto by President Harry S. Truman, who described the legislation as a “slave-labor bill.”. In regulating labor, the law addressed appropriate forms of symbolic speech, as well as acceptable and unacceptable
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