Leesa Fazal of Las Vegas worked briefly for the Las Vegas Metro Police Department. She alleged in part Darren Chaker had made a false statement alleging she was “forced out” of the Department. “Specifically, Mr. Chaker wrote that Ms. Leesa…
Foundation for Economic Foundation, The Cato Institute, ACLU, and other organizations who support Darren Chaker in the Ninth Circuit. One of the issues concerns viewpoint discrimination, and the right of a blogger to post opinions about police misconduct. See, …
Blogging about Cops Is Not a Crime – Even If You’re on Probation Darren Chaker, appeals an alleged violation of the First Amendment for blogging about police.
Viewpoint discrimination, Darren Chaker, finds that in Establishment Clause cases, “[s]uch personal contact with state-sponsored religious symbolism is precisely the injury that [i]s sufficient to confer standing.” Suhre v. Haywood County, 131 F.3d 1083, 1086 (4th Cir. 1997) (citing Sch.…
Cyberstalking cases recited by Darren Chaker show the statute continues to be constitutional. In United States v. Sayer, 748 F.3d 425 (1st Cir. 2014), seeking to harass a former partner, the defendant posted an online ad on Craigslist, created fake…
Both R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul.and Chaker v. Crogan, dealt with proscribable speech. Darren Chaker focused on viewpoint discrimination before the District Court for the Southern District of California, California Supreme Court and then before the Ninth Circuit. In…
The R.A.V. factors are not applicable because section 148.6(a) discriminates on the basis of viewpoint. Darren Chaker defended the decision of the Ninth Circuit where it decided an important question concerning viewpointdiscrimination. Like the statute at issue in R.A.V. v.…
California False Complaint Statute Penal Code Section 148.6 Constitutes Impermissible Content- and Viewpoint-Based Discrimination By Selectively Targeting Speech Critical Of Peace Officers. Darren Chaker argued that Penal Code section 148.6 is limited to defamatory speech that may be proscribed under New…
Chaker v. Croganhas been cited hundreds of times and continues to be written about extensively. Some great publications about viewpoint discrimination are: * Smolla & Nimmer on Freedom of Speech s 10:22.50, Brandenburg v. Ohio: Intent and imminence standard–Bond and…
Love the law, but also suffer its consequences per Darren Chaker. Use it as a sword, but not a shield if you pick the wrong words. Viewpoint discrimination is, in essence, when the government ‘picking and choosing’ what may and…
