What's Behind Facebook's Censoring Of Atheists In India
A few days ago a petition popped up on the website Change.org urging Mark Zuckerberg to “support freedom of expression in India” by unblocking an atheist Facebook group there with over 13,000 members....
View ArticleChristian activists win speech case tied to Arab festival
The free-speech rights of Christian activists were violated when police ordered them to leave an Arab-American festival or be ticketed during a confrontation with young Muslims in suburban Detroit, an...
View ArticleChristian activists win speech case tied to Arab festival
The free-speech rights of Christian activists were violated when police ordered them to leave an Arab-American festival or be ticketed during a confrontation with young Muslims in suburban Detroit, an...
View ArticleSCOTUS Logic On Gay Rights Could Lead To Protections For Child Abusers
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia still isn't very happy about Supreme Court decisions protecting gay Americans. During an appearance at Georgetown Law School on Monday, Scalia worried that the high...
View ArticleFormer priest, Navy chaplain pleads guilty to child pornography charges (ICE...
(Source: ICE - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) WILMINGTON, Del. - A former U.S. Navy Lt. Commander and ordained Catholic priest pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to child pornography...
View ArticleUS Court dismisses SFJ law suit against Facebook for blocking its page in India
JALANDHAR: A US Federal Court has dismissed petition filed by Sikhs For Justice against Facebook for blocking former's page in India. This happens when Ministry of Communication and Information...
View ArticleFacebook To Fight Belgian Privacy Ruling
Social media giant Facebook has said that it will appeal a privacy ruling in Belgium that would force it to stop collecting digital about people who are not members of the site. Announced yesterday,...
View ArticleHigh court to hear appeal over sex offender registration
The Supreme Court will decide whether convicted sex offenders must update their status on the federal sex offender...
View ArticleNavajo Man Pleads Guilty to Failing to Update His Sex Offender Registration...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Mexico) ALBUQUERQUE - Darrick Negale, 30, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty today...
View ArticleConvicted Sex Offender Sentenced For Failure To Register (United States...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida) Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Pedro Ramirez (40, Tampa) to 3 years and 10...
View ArticleTrump rivals decry his call for registering US Muslims
Republican presidential rivals rushed Friday to condemn Donald Trump's support for a government database to track Muslims in the United States, drawing a sharp distinction with the Republican...
View ArticleStates Slowly Scale Back Juvenile Sex Offender Registries
This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts that provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy. After...
View ArticleFacebook can legally block content: US Court
In a major victory for Facebook, a U.S. court has ruled that it can block content without any explanation after a Sikh group filed a lawsuit challenging the blocking of its social media page. The...
View ArticleThe Klan seeks an Adopt-a-Highway sign in Georgia (National Constitution Center)
(Source: National Constitution Center) The Georgia State Supreme Court decided last week to hear an appeal in a case about the free speech, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Georgia Adopt-a-Highway program. In...
View ArticleFacebook can now legally block content in USA
Washington: In a major victory for Facebook, a US court has ruled that it can block content without any explanation after a Sikh group filed a lawsuit challenging the blocking of its social media page....
View ArticleTurning the Rule of Lenity Into a Rule of Lenity (The Heritage Foundation)
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) [1] Douglas Husak, Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law3 (2008). [2] Some scholars have said that it has been a problem since at least the 14th century....
View ArticleNew DOD sex offender reporting system planned for 2016
WASHINGTON – New Defense Department reporting requirements could soon mean better tracking of its uniformed child sex offenders, proponents say, even amid revelations this week that such offenders...
View ArticleSex offender registration rules upheld by high court
Requiring convicted sex offenders to register their address with authorities is not cruel and unusual punishment, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a 7-2 decision in a case from Clark County....
View ArticleSex offender registration rules upheld by high court
Requiring convicted sex offenders to register their address with authorities is not cruel and unusual punishment, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a 7-2 decision in a case from Clark County....
View ArticleU.S. appeals court rules against Wisconsin abortion doctor law
(Reuters) - A Wisconsin law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday, addressing a topic the...
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