{"id":3285,"date":"2010-04-26T22:10:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2010-04-26T22:10:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:10:30","slug":"supreme-court-strikes-down-law-banning-animal-cruelty-depictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/supreme-court-strikes-down-law-banning-animal-cruelty-depictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court strikes down law banning animal-cruelty depictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014In a defense of free speech by both liberal and conservative justices, the Supreme Court struck down a federal law banning depictions of animal cruelty, dismissing claims that gruesome animal films had no constitutional protection.<\/p>\n<p>By an 8-1 vote, the court refused to add animal-cruelty images to the narrow spectrum of speech considered so vile or harmful that it stands outside the First Amendment&#8217;s shelter, such as child pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts rejected the government&#8217;s arguments that Congress could proscribe new categories of speech when it found their &#8220;societal costs&#8221; exceeded their &#8220;value.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704448304575195912729681780.html?mod=dist_smartbrief\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014In a defense of free speech by both liberal and conservative justices, the Supreme Court struck down a federal law banning depictions of animal cruelty, dismissing claims that gruesome animal films had no constitutional protection. By an 8-1 vote, the court refused to add animal-cruelty images to the narrow spectrum of speech considered so vile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}