The holiday season is just behind us. And this holiday season, like every holiday season in recent memory, we were visited by those same issues as to whether a municipality can hang or have holiday decorations that seem to…
Dueling Rights
Last month Daniel Aaronson tried a very high profiled case in Broward County, Florida. The facts were certainly not a defense attorney’s dream. But what made the case even more difficult to try was the media attention. As First…
The end of the U.S. as we know it!
In the next 100 to 200 years when historians look back at the United States, they will agree that it was during President George W. Bush’s terms in office, the end of the United States as we knew it began. …
Call to Arms Panel
During the last week of August and the first week of September, the annual Gentlemen’s Club Exposition was held at the Mandalay Day Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the show are exhibitors from talent agencies, alcohol distributors, clothing manufacturers,…
Oakland Park votes on new Adult Entertainment Ordinance
On July 21, 2004, the City of Oakland Park was poised to pass its new Adult Entertainment Ordinance. The Commission had passed the Ordinance on its first reading two weeks earlier and it was anticipated that again the Commission would…
“COPA” caBANa
In 1996 the United States Congress passed the “Communications Decency Act of 1996″. This was Congress’ first attempt to make the Internet safe for minors by criminalizing certain Internet speech. In the case of Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union,…
No “Free Speech” for you!
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech and expression, along with other cherished rights. Yet, the protections of this Amendment by and large only extend to the government infringement or abridgement of these rights. Non…
Justice Scalia demands recording be erased
Freedom of speech, expression, and the press ultimately find their protections from two different sources. Of course, the first and foremost is the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. However, there is the Court system and especially the…
Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004
Although close to 2.5 million jobs have been lost over the last four years, and although American citizens, both civilians and soldiers, seem to be getting killed on a daily basis in Iraq, it is wonderful to know that…
Miami city commision stifles freedom of speech
Back in November of 2003, the Miami City Commission passed a law which prohibited protestors from carrying items such as water pistols, balloons, bottles and sticks. The law also required a permit for public gatherings of seven or more…