First Amendment to the United States Constitution

On October 1, 2015 The Supreme Court of the United States agreed to rule on five cases involving Total Rewards. These cases are outlined below with a brief description and the date set for argument. Montanile v. Board of Trustees of the National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan (Arg. 11/09) This case is seeking to determine whether a man must repay an insurance company for medical expenses it paid after he received a settlement from the drunk driver who injured him. Montanile’s insurer,…

rights, and that by adopting these regulations it is a sign of public hysteria rather than a reasoned response to juvenile crime and delinquency. Data, and court cases examined by Hemmens & Bennett, suggested that juvenile curfews violated the first amendment rights of minors, violated their right to travel, infringed on parents’…

violate the rights of the homosexual members of our society. There are many reasons that same-sex marriage is allowed; banning gay marriage increases teen suicide, persecution is never the right thing to do, banning gay marriage is against the First Amendment, everyone…

In what was just supposed to be a collective-bargaining for new teacher contracts, the violations of a cellular conversation prompted a historical court case, Bartnicki V. Vopper. Gloria Bartnicki occupied the positon of chief union negotiator for District Teachers Union. In a disputable cellular conversation between Bartnicki and the union president, Anthony Kane, an unidentified person intercepted the call and recorded the conversation. The unidentified person then gave the recording to Jack…

upholding freedom of expression. By standing on the first amendment, one can uphold both duty to the station and duty to the audience. As such the station manager has to approach the issue carefully and has to follow their own ethical principles. With any type of problems that involves ethical issue the best approach the easiest approach to solving any ethical dilemma is by following the ethical making decision-making process. The first step is from Kidder 's model and it requires the…

By the early 1900s, the United States started to develop the confines of when freedom of speech and the press is valid through the court of law. The government has had a history of censoring people or the media for publishing criticism or scandalous news about the government, especially during times of war. For the most part, the freedom of speech has prevailed; however, many cases had to go through the supreme court to create a precedent on how freedom on speech and press should be handled that…

American’s First Amendment gives us many significant freedoms such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to assembly, Communist China doesn’t have any of these freedoms if it goes against the People’s Government. In Fan Shen’s book, Gang of One Memoirs of a Red Guard, he had no rights to believe or say anything different from what the government wants. Shen is born and grows in a Chinese Communist family in Red China, and he tries to escape the legal way because if he doesn’t it…

In today’s time it is a people have the freewill to express themselves based on their own personal values, no matter how colorful or offensive it is. The reason for this case is because it’s a first amendment right to express your beliefs, in spite of this there are some cultural expectations that limits people to express themselves in certain ways. For example, when someone spray paint on a federal public building the person can be place under arrest, even though they are expressing how they…

Hobby Lobby challenged the ACA in the Supreme Court on the basis that as Christian employers, they are exempt from the law because of their first amendment right to religious freedom. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby in 2014. According to Salem Press Encyclopedia, Hobby Lobby pays its employees much higher than the minimum wage requirement; full-time employees receive $14 an hour…

Therefore, it dos not “deprive the opportunity of exchanging error for truth nor for the strengthening and clarifying of perception” (Mill, 17). Mill states that those two thing are the reason that silencing opinions are a peculiar evil. Denying the use of SVSU does not mean that Spencer cannot talk to students nor present in Saginaw. It is the schools way of picking and choosing who they want to speak…