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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Maryland became the first to pass a law prohibiting employers from requesting or requiring passwords to social media sites, and other states have followed suit. ... The federal government is currently investigating whether practices like these violate federal discrimination and privacy laws. Whether these laws and regulations are put into play, the issue of social media's impact on our careers will only continue to increase. ... If this is unavoidable, there are extra precautions users can take to protect their privacy and reputation. If you have information or material you want to lea...

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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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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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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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