Trump Suits Against Tech Giants Face Steep First Amendment Hurdles
A unanimous 1974 Supreme Court decision said newspapers could not be forced to publish replies from politicians they had criticized.
Former President Donald J. Trump filed lawsuits on Wednesday against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.Credit.Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times
July 12, 2021
WASHINGTON Whatever else might be said about the curious lawsuits filed last week by former President Donald J. Trump, in which he accused three big tech companies of violating his First Amendment rights by denying him access to their platforms, it is fitting that he sued in Florida.
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In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court, in a majority opinion by Justice Blackmun, declares unconstitutional the informed-consent (and various other) provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982.
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Nicholas Goldberg: The Supreme Court debates the all-powerful F-word
Summary: This time the language wasn’t used to comment on a burning social issue. But isn’t it time we got over our squeamishness?
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Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times | 11:00 am, Apr. 26, 2021 ×
Fifty years ago, a 19-year-old L.A. man forced the Supreme Court to consider a provocative four-letter epithet.
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The F-word will soon be coming to the nation’s most august courtroom again.
This time, it will get there courtesy of B.L., an anonymous young woman who wrote a profanity-filled Snapchat post after she was rejected for her high school’s varsity cheerleading team. Her post and her school’s decision to punish her for it has ignited a free speech case that will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court next week.