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As seen in: Freedom Forum, MSN, USA Today, Washington Examiner, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Clarion-Ledger, FIRE, Hill Reporter, Persuasion, RealClear Education, Toledo Legal News
First Amendment lawyer & civil liberties advocate | First Amendment Specialist @ Freedom Forum | @1stForAll | Room Rater 8/10 | Opinions: Mine.

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Trump sues the BBC: First Amendment analysis

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By Alex Morey
| Toledo Legal News
On Dec. 15, President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion defamation and deceptive and unfair trade practices lawsuit against the BBC in a federal court in Florida. The suit puts well-settled First Amendment law in a novel context: a first-of-its-kind legal action by a sitting U.S. president against a foreign news outlet. It also faces significant legal hurdles.
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Is It Legal to Protest While Armed? First Amendment Analysis

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By Alex Morey
| Freedom Forum
Can the government restrict someone’s First Amendment right to protest because they’re carrying a gun? Examples of Second Amendment-related scenarios where this First Amendment question arises include: Officials tell a group seeking a protest permit that the gathering must be gun-free. Police shut down a protest because people with guns are present. Officers remove a person from a protest because the individual has a gun.
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Trump Sues the BBC: First Amendment Analysis

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By Alex Morey
| Freedom Forum
The elements of defamation most central to this case are (1) fault — specifically, proving the BBC acted with a heightened type of fault applied in public-figure cases: actual malice, and (2) provable damage. Since the Supreme Court’s New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision, public officials — and later, this was extended to public figures like celebrities — must show in defamation cases that the false statement was communicated with a particular kind of malicious intent, known as actual malice.
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