Only half of the students in my media ethics class showed up on Thursday (Nov. 3) because the Faculty Association at SIU Carbondale is on strike. But the students who came were eager to discuss the ethics and legality of the university's decision overnight to delete comments about the strike from the university Facebook page.
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Illinois’ toughest in the nation eavesdropping law has taken it on the chin twice in recent days. A judge in Crawford County ruled it unconstitutional and a jury in Chicago acquitted a woman who recorded her conversation with a police officer. Illinois law makes it a felony to record audio of conversations without the consent
A judge in Chicago has ordered the production of more than 500 emails between Northwestern University journalism students and their former professor, David Protess, whose Innocence Project was instrumental in freeing five death row inmates in Chicago. Cook County Circuit Judge Diane Cannon ruled last week that even though Illinois’ shield law protects student journalists,
A month after former Ladue Mayor Edith Spink died, the legal legacy of her fight against a little, anti-war sign provided the basis of a federal court decision striking down the St. Louis law that banned a large mural that opposed abuse of eminent domain. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of
Free-speech law is nearing the century mark with a golden age of robust rulings under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., one that compares with an earlier golden age under the Warren court in the 1960s. The Roberts court has protected the free speech rights of corporations, protesters at soldiers’ funerals, filmmakers depicting animal cruelty,
