COM 250 Midterm: COM 250 EXAM ONE - Terelli

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Communication
• Course: COM 250
• Professor: Terilli Samuel

Document Summary

Prior restraint- suppression of speech by the government on grounds that it would be harmful if spread. One makes it very di cult for the gov to do this. 5 basic themes of fos: religion, sacred monarchies and divinity, majorities v. minorities, social & political change. In times of fear etc. (blasi: role of court. Reasons to protect fos: check the gov, truth, autonomy. Reasons to limit fos: con icts with other constitutional rights (14th, unequal access to resource, order in society, national security, heath and morality of children. Key 5: common law- judge made decisions, statutory law- de ne rights & responsibilities > interpreted by the court, constitutional law- no other laws can violate this, admin & international- day to day stu trial courts >appellate >sc. Concurring- agree with the decision but for di erent reasons plurality. A case is brought to appellate court when the losing side believes a mistake was made when applying the law.