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: How Appealing"Funeral protests could upend common view of free speech; As the Supreme Court starts a new term, justices will decided whether hurtful words aimed at the grieving families of dead U.S. troops are protected by the 1st Amendment"
Yesterday's edition of The York (Pa.) Sunday News contained articles headlined "What the Supreme Court sees in Snyder v. Phelps: The Court's eventual ruling about protestors at a military funeral could have broad consequences" and "Westboro prepares for its biggest stage; Declining membership aside, church spreads its message of doom."
And Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that "'Pope in Hell' Funeral Protest Sparks U.S. Supreme Court Free-Speech Clash."
Full post as published by How Appealing on October 04, 2010 (boomark / email).
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