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Court Case Bibliography

Awan v. Levant, 2016 ONCA 970 (CanLII, https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2016/2016onca970/2016onca970.html

Blackmore v. British Columbia (Attorney General) 2009 BCSC 1299 (CanLII), http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb-txt/SC/09/12/2009BCSC1299.htm

Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v. Ishaq, 2015 FCA 194 (CanLII), https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fca/doc/2015/2015fca194/2015fca194.html

Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter, No. 15YO0001NE (2017), http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/commonwealth-v-michelle-carter-involuntary-manslaughter-conviction-for-encouraging-suicide-over-text-and-phone 

Concerned Women for America, Inc. v. Lafayette County, 883 F.2d 32 (5th Cir. 1989), https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/699/95/1419085/

Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46, 108 S.Ct. 876, 99 L.Ed.2d. 41 (1988)https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/485/46

New York Times Company v. United States, 403 U.S. 713, 91 S.Ct. 2140, 29 L.Ed.2d. 822 (1971), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/403/713

R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd., [1985] 1 S.C.R. https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/43/index.do

R. v. Keegstra, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 697, https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/695/index.do

R. v. N.S., 2012 SCC 72, [2012] 3 S.C.R. 726https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/12779/index.do

R.A.V. v. St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377, 112 S.Ct. 2538, 120 L.Ed.2d. 305 (1992), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/505/377

Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v. Saskatchewan, 2015 SCC 4, [2015] 1 S.C.R. 245 https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/14610/index.do

Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47,(1919), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/249/47

Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 109 S.Ct. 2533, 105 L.Ed.2d 342 (1989), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/491/397

Vriend v. Alberta, [1998] 1 S.C.R. 493https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/1607/index.do

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 87 L. Ed. 1628, 63 S. Ct. 1178 (1943)https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/319/624

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