War and (Free) Speech: Can They Co-Exist? First Place Conversations of Meinungsfreiheit Lily Erlinger, Miami, FL Second Place Fall in Line Andy Musser, Golden, CO Third Place Salesmanship Abigail Horton and Ned Resnikoff, Middletown, CT Film Contest Home | 2007 Winners | 2005 Winners | 2004 Winners
Does Free Speech Matter? 1st Place: Riley Harmon, "Carbon Nation" (click here to visit Riley's website) 2nd Place: Robert Hornung, "Today" 3rd Place: Cameron Loftus, "Freedom in a Word, in a Line, in a Poem for America" Video Coming Soon! Film Contest Home | 2007 Winners | 2006 Winners | 2004 Winners
What do you think of the state of free speech and democracy in the United States? 1st Place: "C: None of the Above" A narrative film by the 2004 Youth Sounds Factory Summer Program in Oakland California. After a series of intense discussions on the various forms of censorship that affect their lives, nine youth created a blocked-out world that [...]
CommLaw Blog is covering FCC v Fox Television in the Supreme Court. But as Marjorie Heins points out at the Free Expression Policy Project, it looks like the case will turn on what should be censored for "indecency" rather than whether or not the FCC's censorship poses a threat to the First Amendment. She writes: Anyone hoping to hear outrage [...]
The most enjoyable part of my election night was walking away from hipster Williamsburg and past a laundromat where Obama's acceptance speech was playing. Inside the laundromat was a young Orthodox Jewish couple, a biracial lesbian couple, a handful of young adults looking up at a TV. As strange as this scene felt - either a classic 1980s tableau of [...]
The 2012 YFEP Film Contest Judges! Jake Gogats and Caitlin Wolper won 1st Place in the National Coalition Against Censorship's 2011 Youth Free Expression Film Contest. Sherman Alexie is a celebrated poet and author whose works frequently draw on his experiences growing up on an Indian reservation in Washington State. His first young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of A [...]
In Wyeth v. Levine, the Supreme Court will determine whether tort litigation against drug manufacturers is and should be preempted. A holding for Wyeth could mean that parties injured by FDA-approved pharmaceuticals no longer could sue drug makers for failure to warn about risks associated with their products. Potential plaintiffs no longer would have access to litigation to compel the [...]
The public has a right to know non-classified, scientific information generated by government researchers. This article discusses suppression of medical information generated by Army researchers in a recent article about the Army’s policy for conducting pre-publication review of medical data. Read the article here. Read NCAC's statement on this policy here.
Dahlia Lithwick, who's covering Wyeth v. Levine in the Supreme Court describes the case like this: "Wyeth is being called the most important business case of the year because, if the court finds that the FDA warning occupies the field of drug warnings, it will effectively immunize drug makers from many state tort suits. If it finds pre-emption here, the most business-friendly Supreme Court in decades can cancel the room with two queen-size beds and order a single king for itself and big pharma".
Shelbi Kepler - this year's 2nd place film contest winner - takes on our challenge to one more video response to this dramatic election. Here's her video on gay marriage:
On March 4, 2009, the US Supreme Court ruled that Diana Levine could sue the parmaceutical company Wyeth for risks Wyeth knew but did not disclose. Because the label had been approved by the FDA, Wyeth claimed her suit should be barred. The Supreme Court disagreed.
