Oct 10, 2019 | Case Note, First Amendment, John Sivils
By John Sivils Abstract Free speech protection ends where true threats begin. The Supreme Court of the United States has defined “true threats” as “those statements where the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful...
Sep 15, 2019 | Essay, Feature, First Amendment, Lackland H. Bloom Jr., Supreme Court of the United States
By Lackland H. Bloom, Jr. Abstract The Supreme Court’s freedom-of-speech jurisprudence is complicated. There are few hard and fast rules. One is that judicially-imposed prior restraints on speech are hardly ever permissible. In recent years, another hard and fast rule...
