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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

“Court overturns convictions for threatening Obama”: Bob Egelko has this article today in The San Francisco Chronicle.

In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, Carol J. Williams reports that “Court reverses conviction in online rant against Obama; A Southern California man’s racist post in 2008 suggesting that the then-presidential candidate should be shot is lawful online speech, not a crime, according to a divided federal appeals court.”

And in March 2010, San Diego City Beat published an article about the case headlined “Talking smack: A small threat against Obama has massive consequences.”

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Ninth Circuit ruling appears here, here, and here.

Posted at 8:44 AM by Howard Bashman