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

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, AL, : University of Alabama Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.73/0853; 342.730853
• Soggetto topico: Civil rights - United States; Freedom of speech - United States
• Altri autori: ParkerRichard A <1945-> (Richard Anthony)
• 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
• Altri titoli varianti: Communication perspectives on landmark Supreme Court decisions
• Titolo autorizzato: Free speech on trial
• ISBN: 0-8173-8219-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782141203321
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