First Amendment rights guard against government censorship, but don't protect you from this response to your unpopular statements, a response characterized by booing and hissing to drown out your speech.
What is the Heckler's Veto?
100
These arbiters of federal law are appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, and serve for life.
What are federal judges?
100
The prosecution or plaintiff team sits closest to this feature of the courtroom.
What is the Jury Box.
100
A photograph, sketch, drawing, or even cartoon rendering can be considered this for purposes of appropriate law.
What is a likeness?
100
Members of this institution are immune from libel lawsuits for their comments during periods where official business is being discussed.
What is the Congress?
200
In addition to the freedom of speech, the First Amendment protects these four additional rights.
What is freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, and the right to petition the Government for redress of grievances.
200
In accordance with the Constitution, federal felony criminal charges are commenced by a decision of this body, which is not usually used in most state court proceedings.
What is a Grand Jury?
200
This form of inquiry is prohibited from use during direct examination; using it will generate a prompt objection from the attorney for the other side.
What is a leading question?
200
Two lovers kissing on a Church Street park bench, who have their photo appear in the Valentine's day issue of the Burlington Free Press, are not likely to be able to successfully sue the paper because they lacked this.
What is a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy.
200
These statements are likely to cause an immediate violent response from the person to whom they are directed.
What are fighting words?
300
The right to criticize the government is at the core of Free Speech protection, and yet laws against this type of act curtail the kinds of criticism a person can publish or broadcast against the government, Congress and PResident.
What is Sedition?
300
In addition to statutes, executive orders and administrative law, courts must follow this legal principle in issuing their decisions.
What is Precedent (or stare decisis, or case law).
300
These two documents are the formal filings that commence a civil lawsuit.
What are a Complaint and Answer.
300
Publishing the fact that Joe Smith puts stamps into his stamp album upside down might be considered a violation of Mr. Smith's privacy, because it lacks this critical legal element.
What is a Legitimate Public Interest or Concern?
300
Denial of access to locations and personnel, and threats of punishment for divulging items of national security, are two ways in which governments accomplish this.
What is Censorship During Wartime.
400
Provisions of this law defines terrorism to include any attempt to coerce a civilian population, or change governmental policy by coercion -- provisions that some scholars and civil libertarians have criticized as criminalizing free speech.
What is the USA Patriot Act?
400
In addition to states and the United States, some U.S. citizens live in these regions which comprise a third sovereign or semi-sovereign jurisdiction within the physical boundaries of the US.
What are Indian Reservations?
400
A criminal defense attorney may choose to delay this step of the trial until the start of the defense's case.
What is the Opening Statement?
400
Sensational presentation of a story does not necessarily remove it from the realm of First Amendment protection on this ground.
What is Newsworthiness?
400
John Peter Zenger was tried in an iconographic censorship case in early Colonial America, and was found not guilty of seditious libel through this rare type of trial decision.
What is Jury Nullification?
500
The SUpreme Court long held that acts or words were seditious if they met this legal test, which is also the title of a popular Tom Clancy novel.
What is a Clear and Present Danger?
500
Connecticut, New York and Vermont are in this federal appellate district.
What is the Second Circuit Court of Appeals?
500
This rarely-used type judicial authority can override a decision by a jury in a criminal case.
What is a Judgement Notwithstanding the Verdict?
500
The name of a rape victim can be legally published if the newspaper obtained it from this source; the ethical issue, however, remains highly controversial.
What are Public Documents or Court Records?
500
The First Amendment protection of freedom of the press does not in any way guarantee that the press will provide its consumers with this valuable type of communication.