Word: free-speech
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...decision that will nearly eliminate Medicaid-financed abortions. Civil rights activists were pleased by the court's approval of a federal public works program setting aside 10% of funds for minority-run businesses, but dismayed by a decision that perpetuated a white-dominated electoral system in Mobile, Ala. Free-speech champions got more than they had hoped for in a ruling guaranteeing open criminal trials, but were stunned earlier by the court's support for sanctions against CIA Agent Turned Author Frank Snepp...
...point in the term for free-speech lawyers came in Snepp vs. U.S. The court ruled that former CIA Agent Frank Snepp must give the Government all his profits from an unauthorized book he wrote about his CIA experiences. Though the agency conceded that Snepp had revealed no classified information, the Justices upheld its claim that he violated a contract-required of all employees-giving it the right to block publication of any manuscript...
...Board of Education (1954), which established that separate was not equal in public schools. The 14th acquired new meaning; judges became guardians of the poor and forgotten. The criminally accused were guaranteed the right to free counsel when indigent, the right to a jury in a felony case, and, with Miranda (1966), the right to be told of their rights before confessing. Free-speech guarantees were widely extended; in the 1960s, electoral districts were reapportioned to ensure one-man, one-vote...
...judges refused to hear arguments by Skokie officials that the rights of the Nazis free-speech must yield to the rights of the Chicago suburb's many Jewish residents, including several thousand survivors of Nazi imprisonment during World...
...another case, a somewhat petulant opinion by Chief Justice Burger declared that the press had no more free-speech rights than anyone else. The outburst caused many to wonder if Burger did not have a personal peeve against the press. "There is a certain undertone of resentment against the press, a sort of 'Who do they think they are?' feeling among a few Justices," remarked Michigan's Blasi. But he warned against overplaying the court as antipress. Like other First Amendment experts, Blasi points to a little-noticed unanimous decision striking down criminal sanctions against a newspaper...