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Record Nr.

UNISA996248281103316

Titolo

Free speech on trial [[electronic resource] ] : communication perspectives on landmark Supreme Court decisions / / edited by Richard A. Parker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, AL, : University of Alabama Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8173-8219-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ParkerRichard A <1945-> (Richard Anthony)

Disciplina

342.73/0853

342.730853

Soggetti

Civil rights - United States

Freedom of speech - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Franklyn S. Haiman -- Communication studies and free speech law / Richard A. Parker -- Schenck v. United States and Abrams v. United States / Stephen A. Smith -- Whitney v. California / Juliet Dee -- Stromberg v. California / John S. Gossett -- Near v. Minnesota / John S. Gossett and Juliet Dee -- Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire / Dale Herbeck -- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette / Warren Sandmann -- New York Times v. Sullivan / Nicholas F. Burnett -- United States v. O'Brien / Donald A. Fishman -- Brandenburg v. Ohio / Richard A. Parker -- Cohen v. California / Susan J. Balter-Reitz -- Kleindienst v. Mandel / Mary Elizabeth Bezanson -- Miller v. California / Joseph Tuman -- Buckley v. Valeo / Craig R. Smith -- FCC v. Pacifica Foundation / R. Wilfred Tremblay -- Central Hudson Gas & Electric v. Public Service Commission / Joseph J. Hemmer Jr. -- Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier / Andrew H. Utterback -- Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell / Edward C. Brewer -- Texas v. Johnson / David J. Vergobbi -- Reno v. ACLU / Douglas Fraleigh -- Conclusion / Ann M. Gill.

Sommario/riassunto

Describes landmark free speech decisions of the Supreme Court while highlighting the issues of language, rhetoric, and communication that underlie them.  At the intersection of communication and First



Amendment law reside two significant questions: What is the speech we ought to protect, and why should we protect it? The 20 scholars of legal communication whose essays are gathered in this volume propose various answers to these questions, but their essays share an abiding concern with a constitutional guarantee of free speech and its symbiotic relationship with commu