The Supreme Court has stated repeatedly in recent years that the First Amendment's Free
Speech Clause “does not regulate government speech.” 1 While in most circumstances the …

It is an uncontroversial fact of political life that the government sometimes must communicate
with the public. For several years, however, the Supreme Court has used this …

The Supreme Court recognizes" government speech" as a defense to First Amendment
challenges brought by private speakers who claim that the government has impermissibly …

The First Amendment severely limits the government's ability to prohibit disfavored speech,
but does not impose similar constraints on the government's ability to craft its own message …

Nearly one hundred years ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes, the father of first amendment
jurisprudence, rejected a policeman's claim that he was unconstitutionally denied …

A recent addition to First Amendment jurisprudence, the government-speech doctrine was
developed by the Supreme Court to insulate government speech from certain First …

The government speech doctrine began inauspiciously in Rust v. Sullivan in 1991.'It has
grown metastatically since that time. It is now a largely uncontroversial rule that when the …

While federal and state governments have long been communicating to various audiences
in multiple ways in a variety of contexts, the United States Supreme Court has only recently …

Times Co. v. Sullivan1 and in Garrison и. Louisiana2 an interpretation of the first amendment
which focused upon the relationship between the citizen-critic and a public official. In each …

In First Amendment jurisprudence, the Supreme Court has employed two doctrines-state
action and government speech-to demarcate the boundaries between the public and private …