
Author: John R. Vile


New Jersey trial from 1887 offers insight into blasphemy laws

Supreme Court: Austin's regulations of digital billboards not a free-speech violation

Pennsylvania ruling against Jewish man shows how most states viewed early Sabbath laws

California only state in 19th century to overturn early Sabbath blue law

Censured board member has no First Amendment retaliatory claim, says Supreme Court

Supreme Court sides with death-row inmate's religious rights claims

Book Review: The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech

New book combines speech, press and religion in coherent First Amendment narrative
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