21 April 2015
10:21 AM
According
to the Texas Court of Appeals, "nonmedia" do not receive full First
Amendment protections.
[T]his is an unfortunate result, and
also requires Texas courts to now decide who counts as “media” for First
Amendment purposes. Do book authors qualify? Filmmakers? Academics? Bloggers?
(Does it matter whether they make money blogging? Whether they blog on The
Washington Post site, even if they are not newspaper employees?)
It seems unlikely that either the Texas
Supreme Court or the U.S. Supreme Court will agree to hear this case, partly
because the Court of Appeals concluded that the bottom-line result would have
been the same regardless of how the nonmedia rights issue was decided. But I
hope that eventually higher courts will overrule the ruling.
Almost literally an unprecedented decision.
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About Me
- James Frank Solís
- Former soldier (USA). Graduate-level educated. Married 26 years. Texas ex-patriate. Ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.
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