RFRA and the First Amendment Explained for Small Business Owners - Can you turn away business?
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BENTONVILLE -- The plaintiff in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case met with Bentonville High School students to discuss First Amendment rights Wednesday.
In 1965, Des Moines, Iowa students Mary Beth Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt wore black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam war. The school prohibited the armbands and suspended the students.
A lawsuit was filed against the Des Moines School District, and after losing at the district and appeals court levels, the case went before the Supreme Court in 1969. The Supreme Court ruled that students could express themselves as long as it doesn't "materially and substantially interfere" with school or violate other's rights. Today, Tinker v. Des Moines is still used to define limits of free expression at school.
"It's a huge issue today as well, because so many students now are speaking up and standing up about all the issues of our day and where the limits are for the First Amendment, where hate speech should be limited and where students should be encouraged to have their speech rights," Tinker says.
Tinker spoke with Bentonville students about her experience, and the challenges to freedom of expression in the digital age.
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Plaintiff in Landmark Supreme Court Case Talks to Bentonville Students
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A message to my girls 7th April 2015.
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SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - A Bible in the Caddo Parish Clerk of Court office had to be removed because it violated the First Amendment.
When Randall Lord asked a Bible to be removed from the Caddo Parish Clerk of Court office nearly a decade ago, he never thought he'd have to ask again.
"I sent an email to Caddo Parish attorney, at the time, Charles Grubb to ask that it be removed," said Lord.
But when Lord walked back into the Clerk of Court office recently he noticed the Bible was back.
"This violates the first amendment in that it's promoting a religion. Our government is not supposed to be in the business of promoting religion," he said.
According to the 1st amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the bible violates the establishment clause, which prohibits the U.S. government from endorsing any one religion.
"I don't have anything against any religion being a part of our community or being displayed, but the way it's being displayed is improper. If other religions are included along with the display there would be no issue here," said Lord.
Not long after KSLA News 12 obtained video of the Bible, it had been replaced with a Webster's Dictionary of similar size.
Caddo Parish Clerk of Court Chief Deputy Mike Spence says the Bible was returned to it's original location, away from public display.
"We're not here to cause controversy," said Spense."We're just here to store records and keep the courts going."
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First Amendment and Technology - Professor Neil Richards
Professor Neil Richards of Washington University #39;s School of Law participates in panel 2 the 2015 JBTL Symposium, "The Impact of the First Amendment on American Businesses." Panel 2 discussed...
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