5 Matching Annotations
- Jun 2020
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The chief justice explained that he continues to think the Texas case was wrongly decided, but believes it’s important for the court to stand by its prior decisions.
TRICK WHY DIDN'T YOU DO THAT WITH THE JANUS CASE
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- Mar 2016
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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“a sincere objection to opting out of a legal requirement based on the knowledge that the government will then arrange for others to fulfill the requirement does not establish a substantial burden.”
And I bet a comment that none of the Right wingers will directly address in their opinion(s).
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- Sep 2014
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www.americanbar.org www.americanbar.org
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Amicus brief in Anthony Douglas Elonis v. United States, including a long section describing the origins and history of hip hop, calling for the court to take serious caution when ruling on the actual or real intent to harm communicated (or not) by potentially hyperbolic lyrics and braggadocio.
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What level of knowledge of rap and understanding of its complicated conventions is a defendant-speaker to assume, in advance of communication, that a hypothetically reasonable person possesses in order to properly understand a rap message? Because the answer is anything but clear and because a speaker’s First Amendment rights should not hang on what amounts to guesswork about an audience’s hypothetically reasonable knowledge of a complex artistic and political genre of expression, the actual subjective intent of the defendant-speaker must be considered in both the First Amendment and statutory true threats analyses.
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- Feb 2014
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cyber.law.harvard.edu cyber.law.harvard.edu
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J USTICE B REYER delivered the opinion of the Court.
Author of the opinion is Justice Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States
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