Attorney Dean McGee on a Recent Lawsuit Challenging Restrictions on Tattoos in South Carolina

McGee argued that tattooing is a “uniquely bold version of speech" and discussed how he plans to address the patchwork of decisions about First Amendment protections for tattooing.

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Lawsuit Seeks To Ban Trump Media From Charging for Early Access to President’s Posts on US Policy

The lawsuit alleges the service offering paying customers sneak peeks of his posts about U.S. policy on war, tariffs and other issues violates the Constitution.

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A Kansas Town Will Pay $850K To End a Reporter’s Lawsuit Over a 2023 Raid on Her Paper’s Offices

Now-retired Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn said in her lawsuit that the raid violated press freedoms and protections from unreasonable law enforcement searches.

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Groups Sue the Trump Administration Over Its Targeting of the International Criminal Court

The lawsuit is the latest example of organizations pushing back on what they call the Trump administration’s efforts to undermine international law and prevent efforts to combat impunity by governments around the world.

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Appeals Court Says Fishermen’s Claim in Lobster Defamation Suit Raises First Amendment Questions

Seafood Watch placed lobster on its list of seafood to avoid because of the threat posed to rare whales, such as the North Atlantic right whale, by potential entanglement in fishing gear

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[The] right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”
-James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions, 1800
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