updated Fri. July 5, 2024
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ThinkProgress
September 7, 2017
Similarly, in the 1965 case Cox v. Louisiana, the court held that the government could not prosecute protesters for demonstrating in a location where the police had said the protest was allowed. Applying Raley and Cox to the immigration context would be an extension of these precedents, but hardly anÃâà...
The Hill (blog)
September 6, 2017
In a 1965 case, Cox v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court overturned disorderly conduct convictions of protesters who violated a law prohibiting demonstrations "in or near" a courthouse. Although they were across the street, the protesters relied upon police officers who gave them permission to protest there.
Slate Magazine
September 5, 2017
In 1965's Cox v. Louisiana, the court drew upon Raley's reasoning in overturning the conviction of a civil rights protester. Police officials had informed the man, the Rev. Ben Elton Cox Sr., that the law permitted him to protest across the street from a courthouse. But when he held a demonstration in thatÃâà...
Constitution Daily (blog)
August 13, 2017
Cox v. Louisiana (1965). d. Obscenity: Hard-core, highly sexually explicit pornography is not protected by the First Amendment. Miller v. California (1973). In practice, however, the government rarely prosecutes online distributors of such material. e. Child pornography: Photographs or videos involving actualÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
May 31, 2017
"This would be 'an indefensible sort of entrapment by the State — convicting a citizen for exercising a privilege which the State had clearly told him was available to him,' the 7th Circuit ruled, quoting from Cox v. Louisiana, a 1965 Supreme Court ruling that expanded protest rights by forbidding "breach ofÃâà...
Constitution Daily (blog)
February 24, 2017
For example, according to Cox v. Louisiana, a city may attempt to shield its judicial system from popular influence by restricting how close protesters can stand to a courthouse. Noise restrictions, too, are acceptable, according to Ward v. Rock Against Racism. Cities are also within their authority to require aÃâà...
Constitution Daily (blog)
December 1, 2016
Cox v. Louisiana (1965). d. Obscenity: Hard-core, highly sexually explicit pornography is not protected by the First Amendment. Miller v. California (1973). In practice, however, the government rarely prosecutes online distributors of such material. e. Child pornography: Photographs or videos involving actualÃâà...
