{"id":536,"date":"2022-03-29T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/?p=536"},"modified":"2023-02-21T21:56:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T21:56:20","slug":"cornell-first-amendment-clinic-and-aclu-of-oklahoma-file-amicus-brief-supporting-challenge-to-oklahoma-anti-protest-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/cornell-first-amendment-clinic-and-aclu-of-oklahoma-file-amicus-brief-supporting-challenge-to-oklahoma-anti-protest-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornell First Amendment Clinic and ACLU of Oklahoma File Amicus Brief Supporting Challenge to Oklahoma Anti-Protest Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic and ACLU of Oklahoma filed an amicus brief on behalf of Oklahoma City-based social justice organization Collegiate Freedom &amp; Justice in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in support of a constitutional challenge to a recently-enacted Oklahoma anti\u2011protest bill, HB 1674. This bill restricts individuals\u2019 rights to gather, demonstrate, and protest in Oklahoma\u2019s public streets.  At stake in this case is whether the Oklahoma State Legislature can bar protests in public streets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe freedoms of speech and assembly are integral to a representative democracy, and it is imperative that courts protect these fundamental rights,\u201d said <strong>Olivia Foster, a third-year student at Cornell Law School and amicus brief co-author<\/strong>.  <strong>Connor Flannery, a second-year law student at Cornell and amicus brief co-author<\/strong> added that, \u201cHB 1674 is a thinly-veiled attempt to silence the type of speech at the core of the First Amendment.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic and ACLU of Oklahoma filed an amicus brief on behalf of Oklahoma City-based social justice organization Collegiate Freedom &amp; Justice in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in support of a constitutional challenge to a recently-enacted Oklahoma anti\u2011protest bill, HB 1674. This bill restricts individuals\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}