Does the First Amendment Protect False and Misleading Speech?

There is no First Amendment right to overturn an election - Vox

Trump's lawyers plan to argue he had a First Amendment right to subvert the 2020 election. He didn't.

United States: Protecting Commercial Speech under the First ...

In terms of speech in particular, the US Supreme Court has now interpreted the First Amendment to the US Constitution to protect commercial ...

Lesson Plan: Is your Speech Free? - California Courts

12.5 Students summarize landmark U.S. Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution and its amendments. 12.5.1 Understand the changing interpretations of ...

First Amendment Restrictions on the FTC's

offered for sale.' Thus a major concern of the Federal Trade. Commission (FTC) has been the regulation of false or misleading advertising.

First Amendment and Consumer Advertisement

Central Hudson is the cornerstone of modern commercial speech jurisprudence, through which the Supreme Court established a four-prong test to evaluate whether ...

Protecting Lawyer Speech Under the First Amendment

Restrictions on lawyers' speech are increasingly common. In most high profile cases since the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, judges have imposed gag or- ders on ...

The Disembodied First Amendment - Texas A&M Law Scholarship

Courts extend protections to commercial speech that ordinarily extended only to core political and religious speech. And now, we are told, automated information.

First Amendment Imperialism and the Constitutionalization of Tort ...

“All bets are off” would be a more accurate answer because the forms of speech to which the Supreme Court has extended First Amendment protection have become ...

Did the Biden administration violate the First Amendment?

federal Judge Terry Doughty, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, ruled that the Biden administration had violated the First ...

Jeff Kosseff on Why the First Amendment Protects False Speech

The First Amendment protects speech, but what kind? True speech, sure. But what about false or misleading speech? What if it's harmful?

"First Amendment Protection for Commercial Advertising: The New ...

Governmental regulation of commercial advertising has become a major focus of challenges to established first amendment doctrine.

The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online

Many experts fear uncivil and manipulative behaviors on the internet will persist – and may get worse. This will lead to a splintering of social media.

Free Speech versus Public Health: The Role of Social Media (Part ...

Social media plays a central role in the spread of health misinformation (false or inaccurate information) and disinformation (misinformation ...

First Amendment | Diversity & Inclusive Excellence | ESU

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, ...

Notable First Amendment Court Cases | ALA

This page contains summaries of frequently cited First Amendment cases. Arranged by topic, they cover case law issued by a variety of courts.

Commercial Speech and the Values of Free Expression - Cato Institute

Commercial speech has become one of the most litigated and controversial areas of First Amendment protection. Yet the question of protecting ...

Is spreading medical misinformation a physician's free speech right ...

In an age of widespread misinformation, the medical profession is navigating the line between doctors' First Amendment rights and ...

1st Amendment U.S. Constitution--Religion and Expression - GovInfo

ing protected expression without raising any First Amendment is- sues.33 ... Erroneous statement is protected, the Court asserted, there being no ...

Free Speech Scholar Defends First Amendment's Broad Speech ...

Should the First Amendment protect misinformation? According to US Naval Law Professor Jeff Kosseff, it should.

We Already Have a Solution to Fake News: It's Called the First ...

Fake news isn't suddenly ruining America, but putting government in charge of deciding what news is fake will. In the wake of President ...