A California federal judge was appointed Thursday to hear the trial of Arizona shooting suspect Jared Loughner. Judge Alex Kozinski of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit appointed Judge...
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Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed emergency legislation Tuesday making it a crime to picket or protest a funeral. The move comes after Reverend Fred Phelps's Westboro Baptist Church [WARNING: readers may find material...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the highly controversial case of Snyder v. Phelps on protests at military funerals. Reverend...
Ninth Circuit rules tattoo parlors protected by First Amendment
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday invalidated a municipal ban on tattoo parlors by Hermosa Beach, California, calling it a violation of the First Amendment. The controversy initially arose when...
Federal judge finds Missouri funeral protest bans unconstitutional
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri on Monday ruled that Missouri laws restricting protests near funerals are unconstitutional. Judge Fernando Gaitan held that two 2006 laws banning protests at...
US states urge Supreme Court to limit military funeral protests
Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday filed an amicus curiae brief supporting the right to limit protests around military funerals in the case of Snyder v. Phelps . The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST...
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in three cases. In Snyder v. Phelps , the court will take up the controversial issue of picketing the funerals...
Kansas church to defy federal appeals ruling upholding funeral protests ban
Followers of the Kansas-based fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church plan to stage a protest at the funeral for late Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) Saturday, despite a federal appeals court ruling last...
JURIST Guest Columnist Christina Wells of the University of Missouri School of Law says that to restrict peaceful protests aimed at disseminating a message simply because we find that message offensive is inconsistent with common sense notions of privacy and...
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius Thursday signed legislation that bans protests within 150 feet of a funeral one hour before, during and two hours after the end of a service. The Kansas funeral privacy act [PDF...