Sentence examples for speech defense from inspiring English sources

Mr. Zittrain said the tablature sites could well have a free speech defense.

Lütke's argument generally rests on a "free speech" defense, claiming that any attempt to apply a moral lens to what stores operate on Shopify would threaten to "censor" a right to free expression.

Attorneys for the rating agencies raised the free speech defense.

Free speech defense: The operators behind Backpage, a classified ad website, are asking a judge to dismiss the criminal charges brought by state Atty.

In at least three important cases brought by a private plaintiff against a rating agency, however, a federal judge has dismissed the free speech defense.

The essence of the companies' free speech defense, articulated by legendary First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, is that ratings agencies merely offer opinions, and that those opinions are protected speech, the same as a newspaper editorial.

Yun Soo Oh Park, better known as Tokyo Joe, and his lawyer, Ira Lee Sorkin, are likely to mount a free-speech defense in the first case the Securities and Exchange Commission has brought against an Internet stock-picking celebrity.

He rose to the free-speech defense of all things rude and raunchy, pleading for unfettered distribution of material like Hubert Selby Jr.'s "Last Exit to Brooklyn" and the countercultural magazine Oz.

Tells about Pompidou's long speech in defense of his government.

He planned to give a speech in defense of the monuments and of "Virginia's heritage".

These verdicts pose no threat to journalistic free speech, as defense lawyers tried to argue.