Free speech cases at top of Supreme Court's agenda - Politics - Supreme Court - msnbc.com: "WASHINGTON — Free speech cases top the U.S. Supreme Court's docket as it begins a new term with a new justice and three women on the bench for the first time.
The court will look at provocative anti-gay protests at military funerals and a California law banning the sale of violent video games to children. These cases worry free speech advocates, who fear the court could limit First Amendment freedoms. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees such basic rights as freedom of speech, religion and assembly.
The funeral protest lawsuit, over signs praising American war deaths, 'is one of those cases that tests our commitment to the First Amendment,' said Steven Shapiro, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union."
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