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Spinning a Tighter Web: The First Amendment and Internet Regulation
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1997-05)
This article examines the First Amendment issues associated with Internet regulation, specifically the Communications Decency Act of 1996 and discusses the district court opinion in ACLU v. Reno. The author considers ...
Wide Awake or Half-Asleep? Revelations from Jurisprudential Tailings Found in Rosenberger v. University of Virginia
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1997-05)
The Rosenberger Court contracted the boundaries of the no funding principle of the Establishment Clause. In so doing, the Court, speaking through Justice Kennedy, ran roughshod over several important tools used in free ...
The Internet in the College Community
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1997-05)
This article reviews several current issues at the intersection of free expression and electronic communication on the college and university campus. It presupposes the conclusion which a unanimous Supreme Court reached ...
From the Ground to the Sky: The Continuing Conflict Between Private Property Rights and Free Speech Rights on the Shopping Center Front Seventeen Years After Pruneyard
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1996-07)
This Comment examines the intersection of property rights and free speech rights by tracing how the Supreme Court has dealt with this intersection in a shopping center context and in other contexts. The Comment proceeds ...
Wisconsin v. Mitchell: The End of Hate Crimes or Just the End of the First Amendment
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1994-07)
This note examines Wisconsin v. Mitchell, wherein the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not forbid "hate crime statutes" which lengthen the sentence of a criminal defendant for committing a ...
Doe v. University of Michigan, District Court Strikes Down University Policy Against Racial Harassment on Grounds of Vagueness and Overbreadth
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1991-11)
This note examines the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan decision invalidating the University of Michigan's racial harassment policy. The issue facing the court was one of first impression ...
Current Challenges to Free Expression: A New Age of Repression?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1992-05)
In this essay, Dean Stone describes three examples of recent challenges to the principle of free expression. Addressing such diverse challenges as Jerry Falwell's dispute with Hustler Magazine and the University of Michigan's ...