Freedom of Speech and Expression

Civil Liberties Minute: Learning from WikiLeaks
So what's the lesson we should learn about WikiLeaks disclosing 91,000 pages of classified information about the Afghanistan War?

Civil Liberties Minute: The Howling Pig
The Howling Pig has won a major victory for The First Amendment, and The Fourth Amendment too.

Civil Liberties Minute: Seven Dirty Words
George Carlin's seven dirty words that until mid-July 2010 you were never allowed to say on the radio are:

Civil Liberties Minute: The Humanitarian Law Project
The Humanitarian Law Project wanted to advise two terrorist groups on how they could, instead of promoting terrorism, resolve disputes peacefully and work with the United Nations. And the problem is what?

Civil Liberties Minute: Day Laborers
Do day laborers -- people who have to search for work every day -- have the same constitutional rights to freedom of speech and assembly as everyone else in America?

Civil Liberties Minute: BP
There's breaking news on BP. In a public relations coup, the oil company is holding a contest to decide whether BP now shall stand for bogus promises, bad planning, broken pumps, or bullsh*t for the public.

Civil Liberties Minute: John Kurtz
After T&J Towing scooped up the car of John Kurtz, a junior at Wesleyan Michigan University, Kurtz created a Facebook page to tell his story. The tow company sued him for $750,000.00.

Civil Liberties Minute: Taser Me Out to the Ballgame
"Taser me out to the ballgame, taser me out to the crowd."

Civil Liberties Minute: Dog Fight Videos
Should videos that show disgusting, I mean really disgusting, images of pit bulls ripping apart other animals be protected by the First Amendment?

Civil Liberties Minute: Corporate Speech
Do powerful corporations have greater First Amendment rights than, say, law professors? No, this is not a trick question.

Civil Liberties Minute: More Radio Secrets
A previous ACLU Minute gave the inside scoop on how radio commentators are trying to unfairly influence your opinion. One way is to try to keep your attention by promising something sexual at the end of the commentary.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Stark Naked
Recently, a woman was standing in a store window in New York City, stark naked, when a police cruiser rolled by.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: What's In a Name?
The question Shakespeare raised in Romeo & Juliet, "What's in a name?," is back in the news.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Sarah Phelps
A high school senior vented about her English teacher by creating a Facebook page titled, "Miss Sarah Phelps is the Worst Teacher I've Ever Had."

ACLU First Amendment Minute: The First Gigolo
The first legal American gigolo is now hard at work in Nevada.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Paying Attention
If you're not really concerned about the state of civil liberties in America, respectfully, you are just not paying attention.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: CBS
"C.B.S. - Corporate Bullsh*t, Corporate Bullsh*t"

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Your First Amendment Rights
Can you really end up in prison for exercising your First Amendment rights?

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Texting While Driving
A law that prohibits a motorist from text messaging while driving clearly is an unconstitutional, government-imposed restriction on free speech. Or is it?

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Cold Winter of the Great Recession
In this cold winter of this Great Recession does the Constitution do the hungry and the homeless any good?

ACLU First Amendment Minute: An Irritated Driver
An automobile driver, as the New York Times so delicately put it, "gestured offensively with his middle finger," at another driver who, whoops, turned out to be a cop. The result may surprise you.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Auld Lang Syne
What's an Auld Lang Syne anyway?

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Chief Military Prosecuter at Gitmo
The former Chief Military Prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay has been fired from his present job as a researcher at The Library of Congress for, get this, writing an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal and a letter to The Washington Post.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Can the State Regulate Your Sex Life?
How far can the state go in regulating your sex life? For an answer, you might want to check out the recent ruling in Love Stuff v. The City of Hoover.

ACLU First Amendment Minute: Botox and Free Speech
Botox recently put a few wrinkles in the free speech debate. Here's what happened.





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