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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 14, 2013 - Twenty-five years ago, on Jan. 13 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court announced a…
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John Seigenthaler is a journalist and champion of the First Amendment. He was previously an editor and publisher of The Tennessean in Nashville and was…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 26, 2012 - Talk about your awkward situations. Here was John Seigenthaler, founder of the First…
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A federal appeals court has ruled that efforts by the city of Manchester to limit protests by the Westboro Baptist Church is constitutional, despite the…
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Updated at 8:35 p.m. with statement from city.A federal appeals court has ruled that a St. Louis city ordinance regulating street-side protests…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 28, 2011 - Occupy Wall Street protesters have a First Amendment right to protest in a public…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 8, 2011 - Only half of the students in my media ethics class showed up on Thursday because the…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 29, 2011 - Free-speech law is nearing the century mark with a golden age of robust rulings under…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 23, 2011 - Venturing into a new frontier of First Amendment law, the Supreme Court on Thursday…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 6, 2011 - The Roberts court, with the chief justice in the lead, is amassing a strong free…