Free speech on trial : communication perspectives on landmark Supreme Court decisions /

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 shou...

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Other Authors: Parker, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1945- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press, ©2003.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0817382194
9780817382193
081731301X
9780817313012
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.