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Archaic Laws: Often Funny, But No Laughing Matter

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By Harvey Silverglate and Jan Wolfe

Boston Phoenix | October 11, 2007

There's a law against spitting on the sidewalk, but nobody enforces it ... or do they?

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The Gates Case Isn't About Racenew

The weeks-long hubbub over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. by the Cambridge Police Department has centered on race, understandably. But the racial façade of the story has obscured two other bottom-line truths that should govern the "Gates-gate" conversation.

Boston Phoenix | Harvey Silverglate | 08-06-2009 | Civil Liberties

Tags: Cambridge Police Department, constitutional law, First Amendment Rights, Racial Issues, Social Issues, law, police, Harvard, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The RIAA vs. Free Speechnew

The US recording industry is attempting to block the free public Webcast of its courtroom proceedings against Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University grad student accused of illegally downloading music,

Boston Phoenix | Kyle Smeallie and Harvey Silverglate | 02-05-2009 | Civil Liberties

Tags: civil liberties, Joel Tenenbaum, Recording Industry Association of America

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Tufts University Reverses Ban on Unsigned Editorialsnew

President Lawrence Bacow and dean of undergraduate college James Glaser choose to uphold First Amendment after a conservative school newspaper published two articles that some considered racist.

Boston Phoenix | Harvey Silverglate and Jan Wolfe | 08-30-2007 | Media

Tags: media

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