Potter Stewart
Potter StewartThe 1st Amendment is the source of explicit special protection for the media (while others see their rights merely as a composite right of freedom of expression).
The 4th Amendment is a protection to people, not places. What he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.
The 4th Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.
The 4th Amendment is at it’s core, the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
Censorship is reflective of a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
A Definition is sometimes inadequate in determining what something is such that one can say: 'I can't define it but I know it when I see it' -- 'and this is not that'.
