If the winners of a recent federal appellate case decide their victory calls for a drink, they’ll be able to get a lot more information before they head out on the town. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on ...

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Defendant was convicted of possession of child obscenity after police discovered in defendant’s home drawings appearing to depict minors engaging in sexual acts with adults who appeared to be their parents. On appeal, defendant challenged his conviction, arguing that the ...

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Where an appellant, who frequently contacts Missouri legislators to discuss political issues, often in connection with his work with a nonprofit corporation, challenged a law requiring him to register as a legislative lobbyist, the state failed to show that applying ...

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Plaintiff filed suit against defendants, alleging the North Dakota bar’s use of his compulsory bar dues to oppose a state ballot measure he supported violated his First Amendment rights. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. American Federation ...

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Where the owners of a video-production business, who sought to produce wedding video but only of opposite-sex couples in accordance with their religious beliefs, sued Minnesota seeking injunctive relief preventing the state from enforcing anti-discrimination provisions of the Minnesota Human ...

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A federal appeals court has reinstated a Minnesota couple’s lawsuit challenging portions of the state’s human rights act which they say would require them to produce wedding videos for same-sex couples, in violation of their free-speech rights. Missouri doesn’t have ...

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Where an adult-oriented business challenged the constitutionality of an Arkansas zoning law that prevented it from opening within 1,000 feet of schools and places frequented by children, the business did not engage in speech and so could not state a ...

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Take the post down. Put it back up. Stop policing speech. Start silencing extremists. That’s just a sampling of the intense, often contradictory demands facing tech companies and their social media platforms as they try to oversee internet content without ...

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Take the post down. Put it back up. Stop policing speech. Start silencing extremists. That’s just a sampling of the intense, often contradictory demands facing tech companies and their social media platforms as they try to oversee internet content without ...

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A federal judge ruled Aug. 16 that a Missouri state representative violated the First Amendment by blocking a Columbia attorney on Twitter. U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes issued a permanent injunction barring state Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch, R-Hallsville, from ...

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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt this week withdrew a legal brief he filed in a defamation lawsuit arguing the First Amendment allows him to withhold some public records concerning private citizens that were requested by the plaintiff’s attorney. Schmidt originally ...

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