Ferdico, a former Assistant Attorney General in the State of Maine stated, "The FBI acknowledged it improperly accessed Americans' [sic] telephone records, credit reports, and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses . . . . " Safety and privacy pose controversial opinions when law manipulates either, but the Patriot Act definitely crosses the privacy line. ... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without d...

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The laws in question had been enacted in 1879. ... Analysis of the Case The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Griswold and found that Connecticut statute was invalid as an unconstitutional invasion of the right of privacy of married persons. The Supreme Court ruled that the "statute forbidding use of contraceptives violates the right of marital privacy which is within the penumbra of specific guarantees of the Bill of Rights." ... This law, however, operates directly on an intimate relation of husband and wife and their physician's role in one aspect of that relation. ... This d...

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The first act to come out regarding the Internet and Freedom of Speech was PL 99-508 the Electronic Communications and Privacy Act of 1986 . ... Basically takes the existing laws and updates them to include computers. ... This law has been called the Virginia Net Decency Act. It is similar to the CDA law that was proposed in Congress. ... Citing as precedent the Supreme Court case that prohibited an Arizona law that restricted train lengths to 14 cars, the ACLU got the law overturned. ...

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Rochin violated those laws and posed a threat to California citizens. When Rochin chose to violate the laws, his rights were diluted and restricted. ... Defendant's Legal Argument: Rochin was in the privacy of his own home. ... The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the deprivation of a person's liberty without due process of the law. ... Liberty to Rochin meant the right to be in the privacy of his own home without forced entry by the officers. ...

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According to the NSA, the President was breaking the nation's laws, and even though he knew these laws existed, he peacefully accepted his actions during the past four years after the publication. ... " Three issues are emerging from this unconstitutional abuse of power: an abuse in American's privacy, an inequality on how check and balances are distributed, how the rule of law is broken meaning that the Constitution is not being followed either, and how the abuse of power by a President can ruin years of progress in a country's democracy. ... Bush abused his citizen'...

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I was brought up in America and educated to believe that every citizen has these rights of privacy and freedom of speech. ... While my position may not be popular, I believe that my rights to privacy and the preservation of my First Amendment right to free speech should not be trampled. I will not stand for the NBA to deny me the freedoms that are afforded to all Americans for it is our First Amendment that states, Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble (Vanderbilt Law Review) Mr. _____________, you have ac...

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The first amendment was established to prohibit the government making any law respecting an establishment of religion. ... In conclusion, the freedom of speech is one of the most important laws in the amendment because without the first amendment, the US citizen could not be able to voice their opinion freely. ... The fourth amendment is representing of the government, in other word, respecting citizen privacy and properties. ... This is a serious matter because everyone who work for the law is under an oath or affirmation, this mean the office have to swear before the court that everything ...

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The government has attempted to intervene through passing laws and imposing regulations. ... The trial of printer John Peter Zenger in 1735 was a landmark in the development of common law protection of free speech. ... They have also shaped speech that invades privacy, which is also punishable by the courts. ... "The other forms of speech that invade privacy are false light, Appropriation, and Intrusion." ... An anti-leafleting ban helps reduce litter, and a ban on focused picketing outside private homes protects residential privacy. ...

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Others may be recognized as the law develops. ... Federal and state laws govern the establishment and administration of prisons as well as the rights of the inmates (Lund, Lynn J., Deland, Gary, Gallaher, Sharon, and Bowker, Gary.) ... Inmates do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their prison cells and are not protected from "shakedowns," or searches of their cells to look for weapons, drugs, or other contraband. ... The US Constitution gives female inmates privacy rights that prevent male officers from "pat-down searching" them. ... Under protection of the Constitution, male in...

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The Fourteenth Amendment states, "The Statecannot deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within itsjurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." ... JosephDavis, brought in from Seminole County, "found that Florida's strict privacy law and the equal protection clause in theU.S. ... "Renewed effortsat the Legislative level to overturn "Measure 16" may now be anticipated to prevent the law from being used"(http://www.rights.org/deathnet/open. ... The Fourteenth Amendment gives one the right to life, liberty, or property, witho...

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The Constitution of the United States is system of fundamental laws of the United States of America. ... Our first amendment says," Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." ... This amendment gives us the freedoms too have privacy in our own homes. ...

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The student rights issues have been broken down into two categories: free speech and privacy/search and seizure. ... The spring 2002 edition of the Student Press Law Center's report newsletter states "High school censorship seems to occur in an ever-growing set of circumstances." ... The court ruled "[W] e hold that educators do not offend the First Amendment" The Student Press Law's decision in the Board of Ed. of Independent School Dist. ...

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A prisoner retains all the rights of an ordinary citizen except those expressly, or by necessary implications, taken from him by law. ... Reichard) Inmates do not have to express their rights, they are generally assumed by law. ... There is not a specific law that states that prisoners are allowed the rights to the court and counsel. ... Also a law library should be available to inmates so that they can keep current on cases and decisions made by the courts. ... Inmates are becoming "prisonized- and falling into the trap of homosexual behaviors and violations of basic privacy rights. ...

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For example, in Washington D.C the Student Press Law Center is a fundamental source of legal support for student editors around the country. ... For instance, Stanford law professor Charles R. ... Also, "courts have held that offensive speech may not be regulated in public forums such as streets where the listener may avoid the speech by moving on, but the regulation of otherwise protected speech has been permitted when the speech invades the privacy of the unwilling listener's home or when the unwilling listener cannot avoid the speech" (341, Lawrence). ... Moreover, new policies need ...

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In compliance with local law enforcement instructions of picketing, their picketing took place on public land approximately 1,000 feet from the St. ... The complaint asserted two counts of invasion of privacy (intrusion on seclusion, publicity given to private life), as well as defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. ... Bennett of the Maryland courts granted summary judgment to the defendants on one of the invasion of privacy claims (publicity given to private life) and on the defamation claim. ... The Westboro Baptist Church challenged this verdict as "grossly excessive ...

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There are now very many internet censorships going around; such as PIPA ( Protect Internet Privacy Act), PROTECT-IP ( Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act), and SOPA(Stop Online Piracy Act). ... It should focus on its own issues first; and if the government  passes a law that law should only apply to the Americans citizen. ... But for the most part, most people are not happy about this restrictions, many sees this as blocking their freedom of expression because the government is opposing the law without their consentment. ... Pornograp...

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This document is the supreme law of the U.S. ... This document is the supreme law of the U.S. ... Lincoln believed in "the ends justified the means" argument in preserving all the laws. ... Religious actions and rituals can be limited by civil and federal laws. ...

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In just viewing one of these great social changes occurring within the United States at this time, the sexual revolution, which effectively broke down the pre-existing gender roles, sex laws, and the sexual morality of mainstream American society, one may see that this change, though beginning slowly eventually became so great and so widespread that it not only affected American culture, but, also, the legal institutions of the United States as well. ... In three separate cases dealing with either federal or state obscenity laws, Roth v. ... This resulted in countless sit-ins and other demon...

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