Boston (T) Party — Judge Puts Gag Order on MIT Students in MBTA Hack...
A federal judge granted the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority’s (MBTA) motion for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about how they had hacked the fare card system...
View ArticlePatriot Act’s National Security Letter Gag Provisions Choke on First...
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals struck down one of the most constitutionally repugnant provisions of the PATRIOT Act — the portions of the Act that place recipients of so-called “national security...
View ArticleHoly Crap!
Carlos Miller reports: In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of every blogger, writer, journalist and First Amendment advocate in the United States, Phoenix police raided the home of a...
View ArticleUniversity of Massachusetts Liberals Against the First Amendment
I am usually very proud to be a graduate of the University of Massachusetts. Not today. AMHERST, Mass., April 16, 2009—Multiple First Amendment violations have rocked the University of Massachusetts...
View Article“Why I do it” — An Erotic Documentarian’s Viewpoint
by Tony Comstock Special Guest to the Legal Satyricon In a world that seems awash in sexualized imagery, why is it that so little of this imagery speaks to the common pleasurable reality of sex? We’ve...
View ArticleFree Speech Coalition v. Holder —- 18 U.S.C. § 2257 Delendum Est!
The Free Speech Coalition has filed its long-awaited complaint seeking to have 18 U.S.C. § 2257 declared unconstitutional. The Background – The War on Sex Social conservatives on both the right and...
View ArticleZealot’s censorship attempt backfires (the best $40.96 I ever spent).
Tina Harden of Longwood, Flori-duh decided that four books in the Lake Mary public library did not meet her standards of morality. The Cecily von Ziegesar books Reckless, The It Girl, Notorious, and...
View ArticleDipshit Dines and her MacKinnonite Crusade
Sound the alarm! The pornographers are coming to get us. Or so says the ever-hysterical Gail Dines in a recent Boston Globe article about her latest book. To Dines, it is not coincidental that...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Questions the Right to Burn a Koran
by Charles Platt On Good Morning America, Breyer compares burning a Koran to shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater. I guess this must mean that if you do anything at all which upsets delusional wackos,...
View ArticleUniversity Pig Decides She Will Not Tolerate a Challenge to her Authoritah
A professor at University of Wiconsin – Stout, put up a poster from the sci fi series, Firefly. The poster had some macho shit on it about where and when the character would kill one of his enemies....
View ArticleNew Jersey Supreme Court rules HOA’s political sign ban unconstitutional
The New Jersey Supreme Court recently struck down a homeowners association rule that prohibited the posting of political signs in a homeowner’s unit. (Full text here). The court reasoned that the...
View ArticleDeadspin Weighs in on Raanan Katz Suit
As some of you remember, Raanan Katz sued Google and others for copyright infringement this summer over a Blogger user’s publication of an “unflattering” photograph of him. Today, popular sports blog...
View ArticleCould we just have all judges watch “The Big Lebowski?”
The National Judicial College should require every judge that attends to watch The Big Lebowski. Further, every state should require a person to view it before they can assume the powers of a judge. It...
View ArticleFourth Circuit Delivers First Amendment Ass-Kicking
This is not a Star Trek order. There are no pithy jokes here. There is, however, a shocking exposé of just how insidious the government can be in coercing silence when you speak out against outdated,...
View ArticleHow to cite to Walter Sobchak
If you don’t know what the deal is with prior restraint, here, watch: There. Simple. Right? THE SUPREME COURT HAS ROUNDLY REJECTED PRIOR RESTRAINT! I wish I could just submit that clip to the next...
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