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First Amendment Rights

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Prosecutors Drop Charge Against Marijuana Petitioners

    ​Looks like peaceful protest still works. On Saturday morning, St. Charles City Attorney Mike Valenti officially dropped charges against two Show-Me Cannabis Regulation volunteers who were cited by police for "soliciting without a permit" on Sunday, January 15. The two were in fact gathering signa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Missouri Supreme Court to Strip Club Owners: "Tough Titties!"

    Justices uphold Missouri's nudity ban for strip clubs.​The Missouri Supreme Court yesterday handed strip club owners yet another loss in their legal fight to overturn a sweeping law regulating "adult-oriented businesses." The law passed in 2010 prohibits exotic dancers from displaying their genita ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Student Suspended Over Threats to Kill "Midgets, Fags and Negro Bitches" Loses Appeal

    A sophomore in the Hannibal School District fantasized about killing classmates -- but later claimed he was just blowing off steam. ​In 2006, a sophomore in the Hannibal, Missouri, school district confided to a classmate in a series of instant messages that he was angry about (what else?) being sp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Lawsuit Filed Against Missouri's "Religious Freedom" Amendment

    Don't drink the Kool-Aid, warn plaintiffs.​In November 2012, Missouri voters will be asked to approve an amendment to the state constitution, titled Religious Freedom in Public Places. According to the sponsor of the resolution, Republican Mike McGhee of the western Missouri town of Odessa, the am ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Canadian Libel Judgment Quashed by Missouri Appeals Court

    The cover of Udis Sanchez Lord's autobiography, which got her in big trouble with her cousin -- and a Canadian court.​Kidnapping! Land fraud! Cousins fighting with cousins -- even as one cousin rises from working as a fieldhand to achieve both her Ph.D. and win (drumroll!) the title of Ms. Asia In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Child Nutrition Bill Passes House of Reps, Headed to President

    Despite being blocked by an unrelated amendment on Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed the Child Nutrition Bill yesterday. The AP gives the details of the final bill, and explains that the added amendment, pertaining to background checks for child care workers, was passed in a separate bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Strip Clubs Challenge Financial Impact of New Law

    The new law bans strippers from appearing nude. They can't even wear thongs. ​Attorneys for sexually oriented businesses argued yesterday in court in central Missouri that the state legislature violated its own rules in passing a strict new law on sexually-oriented businesses. The law that went in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Mizzou Law Professor Comes to Defense of Fred Phelps, Westboro Baptist Church

    Megan Phelps, grand-daughter of Fred, protesting outside a St. Louis concert last week.​University of Missouri law professor Christina Wells recently fired off a letter to the Supreme Court defending the free speech of the controversial Fred Phelps. As you'll recall, Phelps is the pastor of the We ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    Tuesday Tussle: Part 1, Local Blogger Fired for Writing About Sex -- She Got Screwed!

    The Beautiful Kind​As recounted on Daily RFT yesterday, a St. Louis sex blogger was summarily fired from her day job last week when her boss discovered her anonymous blog The Beautiful Kind (TBK). Although TBK has always been careful to hide her identity in her online writings and photos, someone ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Truman State Student Tweets About "Jew Killing Spree," Exercises First Amendment Rights

    Not content with simply observing Hit a Jew Day, Truman State University sophomore Rachel Oetting Tweeted last Monday, ​ Within a few hours, Oetting had achieved Internet celebrity, of sorts, when her Tweet found its way onto the websites of various hate groups. A fellow student known by the Twitt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Larry Johnson Is Not a Political Prisoner

    Larry Johnson was given his walking papers yesterday by the Kansas City Chiefs, after they had finally had enough of his antics. The latest incident involved him criticising the Chiefs' head coach, Todd Haley, and using gay slurs to attack both members of the KC media and commenters on his Twitter p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2007

    Hardest (Working) Man

    Larry Johnson was given his walking papers yesterday by the Kansas City Chiefs, after they had finally had enough of his antics. The latest incident involved him criticising the Chiefs' head coach, Todd Haley, and using gay slurs to attack both members of the KC media and commenters on his Twitter p ... More >>

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 29, 2004

    Best Citizen

    Micheal Ocello

  • News

    April 9, 2003

    Answering the Call

    IRS employees bring Jesus to the office -- and manage to raise Cain

  • Culture

    August 4, 1999

    FLAGGING INTEREST

    Raising some red flags at the Midtown Arts Center

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