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**A user’s guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues and the ten key Supreme Court cases that define our First Amendment freedoms today** Americans today are confronted by a barrage of questions relating to their free speech freedoms. What are libel laws, and do they need to be changed to stop the press from lying? Does Colin Kaepernick have the right to take a knee? Can __Saturday Night Live__ be punished for parody? While citizens are grappling with these questions, they generally have nowhere to turn to learn about the extent of their First Amendment rights. __The Fight for Free Speech__ answers this call with an accessible, engaging user’s guide to free speech. Media lawyer Ian Rosenberg distills the spectrum of free speech law down to ten critical issues. Each chapter in this book focuses on a contemporary free speech question—from student walkouts for gun safety to Samantha Bee’s expletives, from Nazis marching in Charlottesville to the muting of adult film star Stormy Daniels— and then identifies, unpacks, and explains the key Supreme Court case that provides the answers. Together these fascinating stories create a practical framework for understanding where our
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- Author
- Ian Rosenberg
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781479801565
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Law
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