Tucked near a rarely used escalator in Terminal 1 at St. Louis Lambert International Airport is a blue sign that hangs over a nondescript stand announcing in all caps the spot’s purpose: FREE SPEECH BOOTH. Underneath the sign on a ...

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Take the post down. Put it back up. Stop policing speech. Start silencing extremists. That’s just a sampling of the intense, often contradictory demands facing tech companies and their social media platforms as they try to oversee internet content without ...

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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt this week withdrew a legal brief he filed in a defamation lawsuit arguing the First Amendment allows him to withhold some public records concerning private citizens that were requested by the plaintiff’s attorney. Schmidt originally ...

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A Kansas City preparatory school has opted not to punish students for protesting a speech by Gov. Jay Nixon, according to a release from the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri.

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In a decision that may break new First Amendment ground, a federal court ruled in favor of a driver who claimed that flashing his headlights to warn oncoming traffic of a speed trap was a constitutionally protected form of free speech.

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In Wednesday’s ruling, the court said the use of the “Like” button was both “pure speech” and symbolic expression.

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A website that only communicates information about a trial that is already in the public record in all likelihood would not run afoul of advertising rules, but lawyers could get in trouble if they direct others, including their clients, to put up websites that transgress the rules.

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The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided May 21 that the First Amendment does not bar the lawsuit of a former Rutgers quarterback who claims that EA Sports used his likeness without permission in the immensely popular “NCAA Football” series of video games.

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Members of Westboro Baptist Church may picket at funerals in St. Charles County — at least while the constitutionality of a county ordinance is being reviewed.

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A St. Louis County judge found Lewis Greenberg guilty of two Ballwin ordinance violations due to his lawnwide encompassing sculpture made of reusable products. But the trial might not be the end of Greenberg’s dispute with the city. Associate Circuit ...

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The old saying of "one man's trash is another man's treasure" is at the center of a St. Louis-area municipal dispute over a yard sculpture. Ballwin resident Lewis Greenberg has been fighting the municipality since 2007 over his lawnwide encompassing sculpture made of reusable products, which he claims is art. But that isn't how the municipality sees it, arguing that the sculpture is a danger to public safety. Greenberg's bench trial is scheduled for Thursday in St. Louis County Circuit Court.

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