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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...

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Patriot 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...

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Holy 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...

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University 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...

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“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...

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Free 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...

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Zealot’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...

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Dipshit 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...

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Supreme 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,...

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University 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....

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New 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...

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Deadspin 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...

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Could 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...

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Fourth 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,...

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How 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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