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Professor's Lawyers Argue: Private University Student Newspapers Are "Not Entitled to First Amendment Protection"

The lawyers also argue that the speech in the newspaper was “not made pursuant to its right of free speech, but to instead to advance the personal agendas of male faculty members at Notre Dame [and others].”

Reason

The awful ‘cultural genocide’ of Scotland’s Gypsy Traveller community

When Shamus McPhee’s mother gave birth to him on the toilet of the curved steel hut they called home in April 1971, his older sisters retched out…

The National (Scotland)

"The crowd was berserk, and Bruce just beaming. It was like he knew. He'd taken a massive step": Bruce Springsteen and the long road from Sunday matinees to stardom

Like many young teenagers in the 60s, Bruce Springsteen was obsessed with rock'n'roll. A decade and a lot of hard graft later, he was being hailed as its future

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FIRE on the School Restricting "Dont Tread on Me" and Firearms Policy Coalition Patches

From FIRE's letter sent yesterday to the Superintendent of Harrison School District Two in Colorado; I generally trust FIRE's factual accounts in such matters, and I think its legal analysis here is spot on: The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to defending freedom of…

Reason

Court: Public School Likely May Ban Student from Wearing "There Are Only Two Genders" T-Shirt,

notwithstanding the First Amendment.

Reason

Coronation Street fans predict murder on the cobbles amid stalker storyline

Fans think there could be a major twist coming for Daisy Midgeley

Liverpool Echo

You need to watch the best psychosexual thriller on Netflix ASAP

Blumhouse Productions, known best for its genre-warping social issue flicks like 'Get Out' and 'The Purge,' is trying to generate the horror icon of the 2020s.

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Ninth Circuit Upholds Expulsions for Off-Campus Abusive Speech That Targets Particular Students

“Students ... remain free to express offensive and other unpopular viewpoints [at least outside school], but that does not include a license to disseminate severely harassing invective targeted at particular classmates in a manner that is readily and foreseeably transmissible to those students.”

Reason

These artists are preserving the history of a dance style gay men created in '70s-era LA

In 2011, Lorena Valenzuela packed her bags and flew from her home of Mexico to Los Angeles to compete in a dance battle. The day before the contest, she attended a class at Evolution Studios in North Hollywood focused on "punking" — a series of sharp, fast movements rooted in…

Los Angeles Times

Shocking CCTV footage catches man kicking cat into wall in Newport

Police and the RSPCA have launched appeals for information

The Independent UK

Court Rules for Student Free Speech as to Off-Campus "Me and the Boys Bout to Exterminate the Jews" Post

“Defendants cannot claim a reasonable forecast of substantial disruption to regulate C.G.’s off-campus speech by simply invoking the words ‘harass’ and ‘hate’ when C.G.’s speech does not constitute harassment and its hateful nature is not regulable in this context.”

Reason

Woman left speechless by vet's letter days after having her dog put to sleep

A woman has taken to Reddit to share the touching letter her vet sent her after having her dog put to sleep - it has helped her enormously through her grieving process

Daily Mirror

Seventh Circuit Reinstates Lawsuit Over School Ban on T-Shirts That Depict Guns,

and reverses a precedent that suggested that viewpoint-neutral speech restrictions in public K-12 schools are generally permissible.

Reason

Slurs Posted from High School Campus Can Be Punished Even If They Aren't "Disruptive" or "Fighting Words"

The result might have been different "if plaintiff's speech had occurred off-campus."

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A Different Sort of "Don't Say Gay"

A public school banned a "homosexuality is a sin" T-shirt on the grounds that it mentions "sex."

Reason

Eleventh Circuit Strikes Down Univ. of Central Florida's "Discriminatory Harassment" Speech Code

An excerpt from today's Eleventh Circuit decision in Speech First, Inc. v. Cartwright (written by Judge Kevin Newsom and joined by Judge Stanley Marcus and District Judge Richard Story), which generally strikes me as quite right: [In] determining the propriety of preliminary injunctive relief[, we consider, among other things, whether…

Manchester Evening News

ITV Coronation Street fans' delight over Tinker family reunion

Coronation Street's Beth, Sinead and Daniel were all smiles as they enjoyed a drink together

Reason

Justice Black's Dissent in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

"Turned loose with lawsuits for damages and injunctions against their teachers as they are here, it is nothing but wishful thinking to imagine that young, immature students will not soon believe it is their right to control the schools."

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