Judith Ann Haydel, Ph.D., (1945-2007) was a political science professor at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette and McNeese State University.
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American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression promotes the free exchange of ideas by defending the First Amendment rights of booksellers against censorship.
American Library Association
The American Library Association supports the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and press as they pertain to libraries, librarians, and library patrons.
Brown v. Louisiana(1966)
Brown v. Louisiana (1966) ruled that a sit-in demonstration protesting segregation in a public library was protected symbolic speech under the First Amendment.
Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration's regulatory authority has been at the center of several cases revolving around the First Amendment protection of commercial speech.
Greater New Orleans Broadcasting Association v. United States (1999)
Greater New Orleans Broadcasting Association v. United States (1999) struck down a law that violated the First Amendment by prohibiting broadcasting advertisements for casinos.
Joseph Story
Justice Joseph Story was arguably the greatest scholar ever to serve on the Supreme Court. His Court opinions and his writings reveal his perspective on First Amendment issues.
Libraries and Intellectual Freedom
Libraries protect the right to receive information, a concept in First Amendment jurisprudence that can protect against some book banning and Internet filtering.
Loyalty Oaths
The constitutionality of loyalty oaths is part of the struggle between the government's regulation of threats to national security and the First Amendment rights of citizens.
Masson v. New Yorker Magazine (1991)
In Masson v. New Yorker Magazine (1991), the Court ruled that altering interviewees' words was not libelous unless the alterations resulted in a change in the statement's meaning.
Pope v. Illinois (1987)
Pope v. Illinois (1987) confirmed that the third prong of the Miller obscenity test warrants the reasonable person test and should not be based on contemporary community standards.
Privacy
Privacy generally refers to an individual’s right to seclusion or right to be free from public interference. Often privacy claims clash with First Amendment rights
Romantic and Transcendental Movements
Transcendental and Romantic writers believed that government may not interfere with freedom of expression. Some First Amendment court opinions have roots in these movements.
Sable Communications of California v. Federal Communications Commission (1989)
Sable Communications of California v. Federal Communications Commission (1989) established the principle that indecent speech for adults is protected by the First Amendment.