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<title>Atheists&#39; sign joins Nativity scene, &#39;holiday&#39; tree at Wash. Capitol</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=201401108</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 17:18 GMT</pubDate>
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...   An atheist group has unveiled an anti-religion placard in the state Capitol, joining a  ...  But he added, &quot;I appreciate freedom of speech and freedom of access. That&#39;s why they&#39;re  ...  View the latest news stories throughout the First Amendment Center Online. Last system update: Tuesday, December  ...
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<title>2nd Circuit rejects AP&#39;s bid to access &#39;American Taliban&#39; filing</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=201401107</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 17:18 GMT</pubDate>
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...  court judge last year correctly rejected a Freedom of Information Act request by The Associated  ...  show that releasing the contents of a petition seeking a sentence reduction would shed light  ...  View the latest news stories throughout the First Amendment Center Online. Last system update: Tuesday, December  ...
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<title>Commentary: Committing a &#39;Capitol&#39; crime</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=201398371</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 16:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  - carefully shorn of its opening clause: &quot;Religion, morality and knowledge, being necessary to good  ...  Preamble, which grants Congress no power). 2. Freedom (based on the First Amendment, which begins, by the way, with &quot;Congress  ...
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<title>Poorly informed electorate is anti-democratic</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=201397398</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 16:58 GMT</pubDate>
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... Roosevelt believed excessive business competition led to low prices and wages The  ...  college graduate in four knew that the First Amendment prohibits establishing an official religion for the United States. To make a  ...
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<title>Man Who Slammed Ex Online Faces Libel</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=201381115</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 15:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the 19th century, allows criminal prosecution for speech &quot;tending to blacken the memory of one  ...  an appeal in July in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Denver attorney Steve  ...  Denver attorney Steve Zansberg, who specializes in First Amendment law, said prosecutors seeking criminal libel cases  ...
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<title>Appeals court reverses ruling in Sparks petition collector case</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=201345762</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 12:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  judge ruling and said a Reno woman&#39;s First Amendment rights were violated when she was ordered  ...  in 2002 while collecting signatures for a petition to recall some Reno City Council members.  ...  event, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, and her  ...
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<title>Defense attacks song-swap ban as unconstitutional</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=201338705</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 12:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  challenge against the music labels, made in U.S. District Court in Boston, is one of  ...  the copyright law are protected under the First Amendment right to petition the courts for redress of grievances. Mr.  ...
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<title>Fired UT employee suing the school</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=201333808</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 12:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Court in Toledo alleging violation of her First Amendment and 14th Amendment rights. The lawsuit lists  ...  Dixon was punished for her private political speech and that other members of the university  ...  make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or  ...
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<title>Ex-administrator sues UT over firing</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=201330596</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 11:53 GMT</pubDate>
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...  at UT, filed a complaint Monday in U.S. District Court in Toledo alleging violation of  ...  for her private political speech, violating her First Amendment right to free speech, and she was  ...  denied access to a forum for her speech based on its viewpoint, which violates the  ...
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<title>After Guilty Verdict, Defense Lawyers in HLF Case Focus on Appeal</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=201302339</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 06:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  court&#39;s Nov. 10 charge to the jury, U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis of the  ...  possible for jurors to ignore the defendants&#39; First Amendment rights. Westfall, Cadeddu, Dratel and Hollander say  ...  an appeal. After identifying the U.S. Constitution&#39;s free-speech rights, the charge continues: The First Amendment,  ...
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<title>Minister helped put God in pledge</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=201300511</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 06:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  alter America&#39;s oath of allegiance in 1950s. WASHINGTON George Docherty, former pastor of Washington&#39;s New  ...  God, shall have a new birth of freedom.&amp;rdquo; Docherty&#39;s inspiration for the sermon came from  ...  deity in a patriotic pledge violated the First Amendment separation of church and state. In recent  ...
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<title>Wall separating church, state breached in Inland Valley</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=201290003</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 04:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  independence from a country with a national religion (the Church of England). There is literally  ...  other mention of religion comes in the first amendment to the Constitution, also known as the  ...  exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right  ...
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<title>Countdown To The New 2257 Regs?</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=201274799</link>
<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 01:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Sept. 10, 2007 - and in-between, Free Speech Coalition filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn  ...  is the Connection Distributing case, filed by First Amendment attorney J. Michael Murray in 1995, which  ...  effect until they have a chance to petition the Supreme Court for review, and that  ...
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