A free speech case over a pastry shop painting goes to trial
A New Hampshire town and a bakery owner are scheduled for trial in a First Amendment dispute about a painting of a sun and ...
What are the legalities around hate speech and free speech?
Fighting words are not protected speech. The test for whether hate speech is protected or not comes from a 1969 court case, Brandenburg v. Ohio, which stemmed from a Ku Klux Klan rally in Cincinnati.