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Constitutionality of indecency ban in broadcast media

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Texas's new, legislatively enacted district maps, court-ordered interim maps, and the Voting Rights Act

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Recent Community Comments
Excellent points, all, but I can't believe this current court will do anything but, per usual 5-4 decision, uphold the redistricting...
Elaine Snow on 4/5 at 1:32 am
What you need to realize that is that the EPA should operate on macro level and admittedly they serve an important role. However when...
richard roper on 4/4 at 9:30 pm
My initial feeling is that since the government does licenses out the broadcast frequency it can say what will be said on them. The...
Rusty Shackleferd on 3/5 at 1:12 pm
The Justices made their opinions obvious in the case "FCC v. Fox Television Stations et. al." I understand that we know what the Judges...
Ramtin Rahmani on 3/5 at 2:10 am
Some of the problems I have with these laws are ethically, I think that was a good law and the sale of those types of video games should...
Jade Bath on 3/5 at 1:06 am

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