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Following is the case brief for Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 564 U.S. 786 (2011) Case Summary of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association: Video game and software companies sought to stop enforcement of a California law that banned sale or rental of violent video games to minors. The lower courts held that the law violated the First Amendment. The U.S. […]
Read moreFollowing is the case brief for Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919) Case Summary of Abrams v. United States: A small group of Russian immigrants produced leaflets in response to U.S. troops being on Russian soil for operations during WWI. The leaflets called for a strike at ammunition plants so that the U.S. would not have weapons to […]
Read moreFollowing is the case brief for Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957) Case Summary of Roth v. United States: This case consolidates two criminal convictions for obscenity. In the Roth case, a publisher was prosecuted under a federal law, which made it a crime to mail an obscene book. In the Alberts case, a man was prosecuted under […]
Read moreFollowing is the case brief for Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844 (1997) Case Summary of Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union: Congress passed the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) to protect minors from harmful material on the Internet. Two provisions of the CDA were challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other plaintiffs. […]
Read moreFollowing is the case brief for Snyder v. Phelps, 562 U.S. 443 (2011). Case Summary of Snyder v. Phelps: A church leader and several church members traveled to Maryland to picket at a military funeral. The picketers held signs decrying the moral decline of the U.S. and homosexuality in the military. The soldier’s father sued the church and church members because […]
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