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...Authored by two Mensa writers, one article asserts that Adolf Hitler's greatest crime was ruining public opinion regarding the concept of a master race, while a second says many of the homeless "should be humanely done away with, like abandoned kittens." The newsletter's editor, Nikki Frey, cited free-speech rights and said she "would not print anything I thought was truly harmful and insensitive...
...domains, a federal appeals court today upheld a lower court decision allowing phone companies to sell TV programs directly to their customers. A unanimous three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court ruled that the current federal regulations barring phone company entry into TV are a violation of free-speech rights. Congress had enacted the ban in 1984 to prevent phone companies from using their monopoly power to subsidize efforts in cable. Many cable companies are aggressively pursuing plans to provide phone services. The congressional ban was challenged by the Bell Atlantic-Virginia, a unit of Bell Atlantic Corp...
...charging that Jews had a history of oppressing blacks -- violated his First Amendment rights. But the Justices today ordered the New York federal court to restudy its ruling in light of a separate May Supreme Court decision, which says a public employee may be fired for insubordinate statements, despite free-speech protections.Post your opinion on theSocietybulletin board...
Health-care propagandists like Harry and Louise have become ubiquitous on TV lately, but not all the messages are getting through. In the Washington area, four network affiliates sparked a free-speech controversy by turning down a 2- min. ad, produced by a pro-Clinton group, which attacks the Pizza Hut company for failing to provide health coverage for all its workers. Pizza Hut, owned by TV advertising giant Pepsico, has been a foe of the Clinton plan's employer mandate...
...splintered U.S. Supreme Court said anti-abortion activists have to keep their distance from health clinics, opening the way to treat the protesters' scare-tactics as serious crimes. The majority opinion in the contentious 6-3 vote said a Florida judge did not violate anti-abortion protesters' free-speech rights when he created a 36-foot protective zone around a Melbourne, Fla., clinic. The ruling, however, threw out a ban on picketing within 100 yards of the building. "This was one time where the pro-choice and pro-life people could agree on something," says TIME legal correspondent Andrea Sachs...