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This article presents news notes related to several court cases in the U.S. In the case San Diego v. Roe, in a December 6, 2004, per curiam opinion, the Court unanimously rejected a police officer's claim that his termination for selling sexually explicit videos on an Internet auction site violated his First Amendment rights. Respondent John Roe, a San Diego police officer, videotaped himself taking off a generic police uniform and masturbating. He then sold the videotape in the adults-only section of eBay, the popular online auction site. On Wednesday, January 19, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in Clingman v. Beaver, a case presenting the question of whether it is permissible for Oklahoma to forbid par- ties to allow registered voters from other parties to participate in their primaries. Oklahoma's election statutes currently provide for a semiclosed primary system, in which a party may invite only its own party members and registered voters designated as Independents to vote in its primary. |
