In Estes v. Texas, 381 U.S. 532 (1965), the Supreme Court overturned the fraud conviction of Billy Sol Estes, a political operative for Lyndon B. Johnson, holding that the allowance of cameras in the courtroom and televised...more
Yesterday’s unanimous ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Packingham v. North Carolina is one of the first decisions in which the Court has addressed broadly the relationship between the First Amendment and social media,...more
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