Re: Is anonymous speech protected?

I posted about this to a mailing list last week -- from a legal rag. A federal judge in Indiana has ruled a Goshen city ban on masks unconstitutional, saying it violates the rights of Ku Klux Klansmen to express themselves and associate anonymously. U.S. District Judge Robert L. Miller issued th

Re: Is anonymous speech protected?

At 9:58 PM -0400 5/17/99, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote: >For an only slighted dated summary on mask laws see >http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/clipper1.htm#ToC54 > >For a discussion of anonymity laws see >http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/ocean.htm > >And ye

Re: Is anonymous speech protected?

At 05:30 PM 5/17/99 -0700, Jim McCoy wrote: >At 04:30 PM 5/17/99 -0700, Dave Del Torto wrote: >>Second Question: can anyone cite/remember any other federal court decision >>that protects one's right to remain anonymous (other than those protecting >>victims or people in federal witness protectio

Re: Is anonymous speech protected?

In , on 05/17/99 at 06:30 PM, Dave Del Torto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Second Question: can anyone cite/remember any other federal court >decision that protects one's right to remain anonymous (other than those >protecting victims or people in federal

Re: Is anonymous speech protected?

At 04:30 PM 5/17/99 -0700, Dave Del Torto wrote: >Second Question: can anyone cite/remember any other federal court decision >that protects one's right to remain anonymous (other than those protecting >victims or people in federal witness protection programs, etc)? Talley v California 362 US

Re: Is anonymous speech protected?

For an only slighted dated summary on mask laws see http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/clipper1.htm#ToC54 For a discussion of anonymity laws see http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/ocean.htm And yes, it's a real case, decided as you heard, but I don't have the citation handy.

Re: Is anonymous speech protected?

The protection of anonymnous speech is pretty old, relatively. There was a supreme court case with an anonymous pamphetleer I think. The issue we have in front of us is making sure that protection extends to the net. -- sameer

Is anonymous speech protected?

Forgive me for lacking further specifics just now, but an anonymous lawyer friend tells me that the May 11, 1999 edition of the "San Francisco Daily Journal" reported that a federal district judge declared a (n unspecified) city's ordinance --forbidding the wearing of masks, hoods or any devic