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Silencing critics – Baltimore’s approach to free speech?

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Jul. 05 (Opinion) - The right of assembly in a public place and the right of a free press – principles we celebrated yesterday over hot dogs and baked beans seemed to be under attack even before city officials took the extraordinary step of ejecting Tom Kiefaber from the Board of Estimates meeting last week.

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Conaway suit could "chill free speech in Baltimore," blogger says

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Scharper - Jun. 23 (News) - Blogger Adam Meister has asked a judge to dismiss the $21 million law suit that Baltimore City Councilwoman Belinda Conaway brought against him after he reported she signed documents indicating she lived in Baltimore County.

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Baltimore police tell teacher to stop leafleting at Inner Harbor

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Peter Hermann - May. 27 (News) - Bruce Friedrich, a teacher and a member of an animal-rights group, wants people to eat vegetarian. And so last Sunday he and six like-minded friends handed out more than 1,000 leaflets near the National Aquarium at the Inner Harbor.

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Free speech at the Inner Harbor? It depends where you stand

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Peter Hermann - May. 27 (News) - Want to demonstrate at the Inner Harbor? Make sure you're firmly in McKeldin Square. That's a patch of land near Pratt and Light streets, the one with the fountain.

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Westboro Relishes Legal Fight as Md. Lawmakers Push Picketing Restrictions

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Capital News Service - By Andy Marso - Apr. 15 (News) - Maryland lawmakers introduced three state and federal bills in the past five weeks to strengthen restrictions on picketing funerals.

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What the ale?

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Frederick News-Post - Apr. 03 (Editorial) - Does calling a beer "Raging Bitch" offend you? And is it so offensive that it should be banned from bars and kept off liquor store shelves?

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University condemns web anonymity

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Towerlight - By Daniel Gross - Apr. 03 (News) - Following an online post that included the N-word in its title on anonymous posting website CollegeACB, members in the Towson University community took action out of offense and protested the website’s existence.

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Prisoner Learns Price of Free Speech

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Arbutus Patch - By Bruce Goldfarb - Mar. 31 (News) - Hasani Ayinde Bond, 20, is charged with threatening a court commissioner at a bail hearing for shoplifting.

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Matthew Snyder's mom: The right to freedom of speech is absolute

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Francis - Mar. 14 (Comment) - Five years ago, my son's father asked me to join him in bringing a lawsuit against the Westboro Baptist Church. I declined for the following reasons.

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The best way to stop Westboro Baptist: Ignore them

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Andy Green - Mar. 10 (Opinion) - Even those, like us, who agree with the Supreme Court’s ruling that the despicable protest by Westboro Baptist Church outside a soldier’s funeral in Westminster was constitutionally protected free speech have nothing but sympathy for the family of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder and the other slain service members targeted by the group. To that end, we sympathize with U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger’s desire to find a way, within the bounds of the court’s decision, to prevent the Topeka, Kan.-based church group’s ability to inflict emotional damage on other innocent families in the future. The trouble is, the law he is proposing wouldn’t help — and might make matters worse.

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Lawmakers To Consider Further Limits On Funeral Pickets

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

WBAL Radio - By Robert Lang - Mar. 10 (News) - Last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the First Amendment rights of a church group that pickets military funerals is leading to legislation in Annapolis to place further restrictions on funeral pickets.

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Towson Paper Hopes To Take Legal Action Against Newspaper Thieves

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Danielle Wiener-Bronner - Mar. 04 (News) - The editor-in-chief of Towson University's student paper is hoping to take legal action against those responsible for the disappearance of nearly 3,000 issues of the newspaper last month.

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Westboro Church Plans to Challenge Anti-Picketing Laws in Wake of Supreme Court Victory

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Capital News Service - By Andy Marso - Mar. 04 (News) - Emboldened by Wednesday's Supreme Court decision, Westboro Baptist Church attorney Margie Phelps said she will challenge statutes all over the country that restrict picketing at funerals.

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Supreme Court Rules For Military Funeral Protesters

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Mar. 03 (News) - Some may think their words are hateful but Wednesday the highest court in the land decided a Kansas church has every right to protest US soldiers' funerals.

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Tolerating Westboro Baptist is the price we pay for a greater good

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Ron Smith - Mar. 03 (Opinion) - There's no such thing as free speech, argued then-Duke University Professor Stanley Fish in a famous essay nearly 20 years ago. Professor Fish is widely praised or assailed for championing what we've come to know and love or loathe as "political correctness."

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Westboro ruling no surprise to lawyers

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Record - By Danny Jacobs - Mar. 03 (News) - A day before the fifth anniversary of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder’s death in Iraq, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Kansas congregation had the right to picket his Westminster funeral.

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GodWatch: Supreme Court Says Church Has The Right To Be Offensive

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Mobtown Shank - By Benn Ray - Mar. 03 (Opinion) - Basically, Chief Justice Roberts, who wrote the majority opinion, is saying that speech isn't free only when it's non-offensive or hurtful - it is unequivocally free. Or, "Hey, ya'll wanted free public debate, this is what you get."

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Sorry, Hon, it's trademarked: Cafe owner owns rights to word

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Jill Rosen - Dec. 09 (News) - Denise Whiting has not only built her life around the fabled Balmer Hon, opening Cafe Hon and founding the city's annual Honfest — she's helped to make the three-letter term of endearment a household word around town. Now she owns it.

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Take the 'public' out of NPR

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Jonah Goldberg - Oct. 28 (Opinion) - NPR should be defunded, but not because it's liberal. If NPR were right wing (stop laughing!) it'd still be wrong for the federal government to be in the news business or to subsidize one set of views over another. The same goes for PBS. I have no huge problem with funding documentaries about bears and mummies, but state-run television news is an embarrassment in the age of C-SPAN and YouTube.

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