Celebrity privacy rights and free speech: recalibrating tort remedies for "outed" celebrities
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The problem of providing gay, lesbian and bisexual celebrities and public officials with legal remedies for being outed highlights an enduring tension between free speech and the right of privacy. Existing tort law, including defamation, public disclosure of private facts and false light causes of action, fail to adequately balance public and individual interests. Tort law regarding privacy needs to be reconceptualized to acknowledge both that public figures do have some privacy rights and that outing that exposes hypocrisy can serve a legitimate public interest.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1997
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English-only laws, informational interests, and the meaning of the First Amendment in a pluralistic society
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The Arizona constitutional amendment installing English as the official state language was declared unconstitutional by the Ninth Circuit in the 1996 Yniguez case. The court cited the overbreadth of the amendment and its impact on First Amendment guarantees of freedom of expression. Issues of Anglo discrimination, equal protection, and cultural assimilation are also implicitly addressed in this decision.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1996
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The First Amendment after Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee: a different bill of rights for aliens?
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The author discusses a 1998 Supreme Court ruling in Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee that the First Amendment protections for freedom of speech and association do not apply to aliens in immigration law cases.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 2000
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