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Missouri's lawyers argued the state did not want the KKK to have anything that looked like state-sanctioned publicity or approval, and that allowing the KKK to participate in the cleanup programs would violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans racial discrimination in programs that receive federal funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ku Klux Klan Wins a Battle to Play at Cleanup | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

In imposing these costs, both the trial court and the Ninth Circuit neglected to address what was Napster's most serious argument--that publishing a directory is a protected act of speech. Copyright laws and the First Amendment often seem to conflict--publishing a book or recording a song are...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: The Next Round for Napster | 2/27/2001 | See Source »

Take, for example, his 1993 remark that "homosexuals undermine civilization" and that homosexual behavior was "shameful." The aggressive: he said this while testifying in favor of a Colorado constitutional amendment which would have banned laws that specified homosexuality as a distinct category for legal protection. The passive: he said that...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: The Aggressive-Passive Mr. Mansfield | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

I hope that in her "12 years of full-day schooling" she might have glanced once or twice at the actual text of the Constitution and its Bill of Rights. The relevant clause in the First Amendment states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...." It means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

It would be perhaps useful for Cohen to continue reading from the First Amendment: "... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." An inauguration is not a service, not a federal ceremony and not an official endorsement of religion. An inauguration is a fluffy, symbolic event that incoming presidents plan because they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

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