ABC is pushing back hard against the FCC's attempt to toss its First Amendment lawsuit, arguing in a new court filing that the agency's early license review amounts to a political weapon aimed at punishing the network for its programming. The network filed its opposition brief on Thursday, the Sept. 17 reply deadline set by […] The post ABC fights FCC license review in court, calls early renewal process a 'broadcaster death penalty' appeared first on American Almanac .
ABC is pushing back hard against the FCC's attempt to toss its First Amendment lawsuit, arguing in a new court filing that the agency's early license review amounts to a political weapon aimed at punishing the network for its programming. The network filed its opposition brief on Thursday, the Sept. 17 reply deadline set by a federal judge, directly challenging the FCC's Sept. 4 motion to dismiss the case. ABC's legal team accused FCC Chairman Brendan Carr of using the early license renewal process to hang what it called "the broadcaster death penalty of license non-renewal or revocation over Plaintiffs' every editorial decision." A hearing is set for the week of Oct. 5. The filing marks the latest escalation in a legal clash that began…Open
AFL and attorney John W. Howard have filed a lawsuit arguing that California's "Stop Nick Shirley Act" unlawfully restricts journalistic freedoms and violates constitutional rights.
AFL and attorney John W. Howard have filed a lawsuit arguing that California’s “Stop Nick Shirley Act” unlawfully restricts journalistic freedoms and violates constitutional rights. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: America First Legal (AFL) and attorney John W. Howard filed a lawsuit against California on Friday to challenge the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” a state law they argue unlawfully restricts journalistic activities. The lawsuit notes the law was created to target independent journalist Nick Shirley, whose investigative reporting into Somali-run daycares and other businesses defrauding the government generated massive public attention. DETAIL: The lawsuit alleges that the law constitutes viewpoint-based discrimination, violates…Open
The lawsuit filed by computer science doctoral student Dylan Kupsh alleges viewpoint discrimination and due process violations, including the lack of meaningful notice of cases against him.
ChatGPT By M. Walter Free speech absolutism is the solution, because people like Hasan Piker will hang themselves if we just give them the rope to do so.
If NCLA's theory survives, a fight over school funding could obligate every state with compulsory attendance and public-school-only funding to provide more financial choices to families who reject the government's curriculum.
Georgia school district, Quebec tourism minister showed hostility to viewpoints of Christian ministries that weren't even relevant to the programs that bureaucrats suddenly cut off, judges find.
A divided federal appeals court ruled that a rural Oregon school district lawfully fired an education specialist for keeping books about biological sex in his office, a decision the dissenting judge warned strips public employees of their First Amendment rights the moment a student walks by. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its […] The post Ninth Circuit upholds firing of Oregon educator who displayed children's books on biological sex appeared first on American Almanac .
A divided federal appeals court ruled that a rural Oregon school district lawfully fired an education specialist for keeping books about biological sex in his office, a decision the dissenting judge warned strips public employees of their First Amendment rights the moment a student walks by. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its split ruling on July 21 in the case of Roderick Theis, a licensed clinical social worker employed by the InterMountain Education Service District in rural Oregon. Theis kept three children's books in his office: Johnny the Walrus by Matt Walsh, and He Is He and She Is She by Ryan and Bethany Bomberger. All three books present sex as binary and immutable. IMESD characterized the display as a "hostile…Open
Washington's so-called conversion therapy law is functionally indistinguishable from Colorado law SCOTUS blocked with regard to counselor in the same situation, motion says.
The New Jersey AG's letter is just the latest evidence that New Jersey is motivated by a crusade to silence viewpoints with which it disagrees. And that’s unconstitutional.