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The truth, nothing but the truth—And the threat to the First Amendment By Steven Helle Intellectual Property, December 2012 Plaintiffs plead for regulation of truthful speech plucked from the Internet's powerful potential for privacy invasion. Nieman v. Versuslaw; Martin v. Hearst Corp.
The truth, nothing but the truth—And the threat to the First Amendment By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, November 2012 Plaintiffs in several remarkable recent cases have claimed that free speech should be regulated not because it is false, but because it is true.
It’s Game Over for proponents of videogame regulation By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, December 2011 Many courts have pointed out that no one has been able to establish anything more than a correlation—and not causation—between violence in videogames and real life. A look at the recently decided case of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn.
The College Campus Press Act should also protect high school journalists By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, October 2011 An argument to expand the College Campus Press Act to include high school journalists.
New Illinois FOIA and government’s obligation to speak By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, April 2011 A discussion of Illinois' Freedom of Information Act and the government’s responsibility and obligation to speak.
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Freedom of speech—fleeting expletives, access to courts, Internet anonymity and attorney advertising By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, February 2010 As audience members at a recent Communications Law seminar in New York City learned, the subject spans everything from regulation of indecency in the broadcast media to a constitutional right of access to courtrooms and court documents.
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From the Chair By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, June 2008 It’s been a good run, but it is time for this chair to fade away and welcome the next generation of leadership for the Human Rights Section Council.
Illinois joins the ranks of the anti-SLAPP states By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, June 2008 With the passage of a new law last year, the term SLAPP has entered the Illinois legal vocabulary.
From the Chair By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, April 2008 A message from Section Chair Steven Helle.
From the Chair By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, January 2008 A colleague told me recently of how she had been doing research into the Federal Communications Commission and expected her job to be easy because the FCC had always issued numerous reports on the industry and communications policy.
From the Chair By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, December 2007 I attended a communications law seminar recently and two observations gave me pause.
From the Chair By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, November 2007 Most people might assume that high school students have fewer rights than adults.
Student speech law heating up By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, November 2007 This article will offer a primer for when that upset parent with teen in tow comes marching into your office.
From the Chair By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, September 2007 A colleague related how she had been stopped recently on a Washington, D.C., street by an ACLU intern who was attempting to collect signatures on a petition.
Human Rights Symposium at University of Illinois By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, April 2006 The Human Rights Section Council sponsored a symposium on a variety of topics related to human rights on Feb. 24 at the University of Illinois College of Law.
A muted First Amendment victory in Chief Illiniwek case By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, October 2004 First Amendment advocates might find the result in the "Chief Illiniwek case" appealing, yet consider the reasoning vaguely troubling.
Facial invalidation in First Amendment cases-The end of an era? By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, February 2004 A 30-year era in Supreme Court jurisprudence regarding the First Amendment might be ending.
Illinois charitable solicitation case before High Court By Steven Helle Human and Civil Rights, April 2003 In the minds of most, telemarketers might well have replaced pornographers and 1950s Communists as having the most dubious claim to First Amendment protection for their speech.

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