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1 - Instrumental Value Arguments for Free Speech

from Part I - Core Values

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2022

Len Niehoff
Affiliation:
University of Michigan Law School
E. Thomas Sullivan
Affiliation:
University of Vermont
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Summary

Hard cases raise hard questions. Take, for example, Snyder v. Phelps.1 That case involved picketing by protestors from the Westboro Baptist Church on public grounds near the funeral of Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, who died in Iraq in the line of duty. His father, offended by the demonstrators’ signs, sued Westboro for intentional infliction of emotional distress and other claims. A jury awarded him millions of dollars in damages, but the Supreme Court found the speech protected and reversed the verdict.

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Free Speech
From Core Values to Current Debates
, pp. 11 - 21
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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