Principles, institutions, and the First Amendment
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The US Supreme Court's First Amendment free speech jurisprudence has traditionally not distinguished between different kinds of speech. Two 1998 cases, Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes and National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, suggest that the Court may be moving away from this tradition. Just as contract law has separated into different categories, so free speech may come to be dealt with as separate bodies of law pertaining to different parts of society.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1998
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The Cuban Amendment Act of 1966: mirando por los ojos de Don Quijote o Sancho Panza?
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The author discusses the background and justifications for the Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act of 1966, and contends that the Act has gravely harmed American society by creating inequities within the US immigration policy and opening it to charges of racism. Various options for reforming the Act are presented.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 2001
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Fourth Amendment - exclusionary rule - Seventh Circuit holds that the suppression of evidence is a disproportionately severe sanction for a timing violation of the knock and announce requirement
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The 7th Circuit decided that exclusion of evidence was not required when police entered a dwelling five seconds after announcing their presence. The court should have established a greater deterrent to police misconduct.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 2001
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- Abstracts: Copyright law - scope of protection of non-literal elements of computer programs - Second Circuit applies an "abstraction-filtration-comparison" test
- Abstracts: Keeping secrets in cyberspace: establishing Fourth Amendment protection for Internet communication. O.J. Simpson, Bill Clinton, and the transsubstantive Fourth Amendment