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Supreme Court Rules First Amendment Protects Westboro?s Funeral Protesters from Tort Suits

By jlutz99

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From the ABA Journal Law News Now, the Supreme Court has ruled on the Westboro Funeral Protesters Suit:  Here's an Excerpt:

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 8-1 that the First Amendment protects anti-gay picketers at military funerals from tort liability.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion(PDF) in Snyder v. Phelps, and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented.

Read the article here.  

Read the opinion here. 

Posted by Jon Lutz

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on March 02, 2011 (boomark / email).

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