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Free speech on trial : communication perspectives on landmark Supreme Court decisions / edited by Richard A. Parker.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- Civil rights--United States--Cases.
- Civil rights.
- Freedom of speech--United States--Cases.
- Freedom of speech.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Communication perspectives on landmark Supreme Court decisions
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Describes landmark free speech decisions of the Supreme Court while highlighting the issues of language, rhetoric, and communication that underlie them. At the intersection of communication and First Amendment law reside two significant questions: What is the speech we ought to protect, and why should we protect it? The 20 scholars of legal communication whose essays are gathered in this volume propose various answers to these questions, but their essays share an abiding concern with a constitutional guarantee of free speech and its symbiotic relationship with commu
- Contents:
- Introduction / Franklyn S. Haiman
- Communication studies and free speech law / Richard A. Parker
- Schenck v. United States and Abrams v. United States / Stephen A. Smith
- Whitney v. California / Juliet Dee
- Stromberg v. California / John S. Gossett
- Near v. Minnesota / John S. Gossett and Juliet Dee
- Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire / Dale Herbeck
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette / Warren Sandmann
- New York Times v. Sullivan / Nicholas F. Burnett
- United States v. O'Brien / Donald A. Fishman
- Brandenburg v. Ohio / Richard A. Parker
- Cohen v. California / Susan J. Balter-Reitz
- Kleindienst v. Mandel / Mary Elizabeth Bezanson
- Miller v. California / Joseph Tuman
- Buckley v. Valeo / Craig R. Smith
- FCC v. Pacifica Foundation / R. Wilfred Tremblay
- Central Hudson Gas & Electric v. Public Service Commission / Joseph J. Hemmer Jr.
- Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier / Andrew H. Utterback
- Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell / Edward C. Brewer
- Texas v. Johnson / David J. Vergobbi
- Reno v. ACLU / Douglas Fraleigh
- Conclusion / Ann M. Gill.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8219-4
- OCLC:
- 427509620
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb31839 hdl
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