Federal judge ruling that college alcohol-ad ban violates free speech

The AP reports that a federal judge today has overturned Virginia’s decades-old ban on alcohol-related advertising in college newspapers, saying that the law violates the student publications’ right to free speech.
U.S. Magistrate Judge M. Hannah Lauck sided with the student newspapers at the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech, which said the restrictions of certain references to alcoholic beverages in print and online media hampered their ability to make money because they’ve had to turn down potential advertisers.
The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control’s rules were adopted in 1988 to curb underage student drinking, but Lauck ruled Monday that the department has failed to show that the ban reduced such behavior.

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Vanunu`s Freedom of Speech Appeal Resumes March 23, 2008: Easter Sunday

After a year and a half long FREEDOM of Speech trial in Jerusalem, on July 2, 2007, an Israeli court sentenced the whistle blower of Israel's WMD program, Mordechai Vanunu, to six more months in jail for violating a ban imposed on him in 2004. Since his release from Ashkelon Prison on April 21, 2004, Israel has denied him the right to leave the state and has forbidden him to speak to foreigners. Two days before President Bush's first trip to Israel Palestine and a day before Vanunu's appeal was to begin, Israel sentenced him to community service instead....