Westboro Baptist Church can protest at military funerals. The Supreme Court has handed down a decision in the Westboro Baptist Church case. The court rules, 8 – 1, that the father of a slain Marine could not sue the Westboro church for protesting during his son’s funeral.
Call it free speech 101. The hard part about the First Amendment is that you have to allow people to say all manner of annoying, vulgar, and inappropriate things at the wrong times.
Not that Justice Samuel Alito thinks so. Alito was the lone dissenter in this case. Alito was also the lone dissenter in the Stevens case — the one that overturned a ban on animal crush videos on First Amendment grounds. But he voted with the majority in Citizens United.
I can’t wait until Sam “Not True” Alito writes a book or something about exactly why regular people don’t deserve the free speech given to American corporations and sitting Supreme Court Justices. Most reasonable people agree that these Westboro people are distasteful nutjobs. But what can you do. This is America, and everybody has a right to make an ass of themselves. We can’t take away the right of people to act a fool, isn’t that right Alito?
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James Shorris
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the self-regulatory arm of the U.S. brokerage industry regulator, said Friday that one of its top enforcement officers is resigning to join a law firm. James Shorris has been responsible for directing FINRA's investigations and prosecution activity for much of the past seven years. He served `s FINRA's interim head of enforcement after his former boss, Susan Merrill, quit in March 2010 to join the Bingham McCutchen law firm in New York.
Shorris was passed over for the top job in October when FINRA hired Bradley Bennett from law firm Baker Botts to run its enforcement division.
Shorris joined the National Association of Securities Dealers, Finra's predecessor, in 2003 as deputy enforcement chief. He advanced to the top position in 2006, but ceded the post to Merrill after the NASD merged with much of the New York Stock Exchange's regulation unit. Merrill was head of enforcement at NYSE Regulation. Shorris was a lawyer at Bingham McCutchen LLP in Boston prior to joining the NASD. Source: Reuters.com
Shorris was passed over for the top job in October when FINRA hired Bradley Bennett from law firm Baker Botts to run its enforcement division.
Shorris joined the National Association of Securities Dealers, Finra's predecessor, in 2003 as deputy enforcement chief. He advanced to the top position in 2006, but ceded the post to Merrill after the NASD merged with much of the New York Stock Exchange's regulation unit. Merrill was head of enforcement at NYSE Regulation. Shorris was a lawyer at Bingham McCutchen LLP in Boston prior to joining the NASD. Source: Reuters.com
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