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1. COM 440 Entire Course For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com COM 440 Week 1 Individual Assignment Communication Law Worksheet COM 440 Week 2 Individual Assignment Freedom of Expression & Sedition Paper COM 440 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Final Learning Team Formal Outline & References COM 440 Week 3 Individual Assignment Invasion of Privacy and Libel Case Study COM 440 Week 4 Individual Assignment Confidentiality of Sources Paper COM 440 Week 5 Learning Team Assignments Final Learning Team Paper COM 440 Week 5 Individual Assignment Explicit Communication or Fair Trial Paper *********************************************

2. COM 440 Week 1 Individual Assignment Communication Law Worksheet For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com • Prepare a 1,700- to 2,100-word paper in which you identify and discusses three separate events or legal developments involving the treatment of sedition in the American judicial system. One of legal event chosen must include the facts and decision in the Gitlow v. New York case. See Ch. 2 in Mass Media Law. • Describe how these three events or developments affected the limits of freedom of expression under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. • Research at least 2 peer-reviewed outside sources in addition to your text for this paper. *********************************************

3. COM 440 Week 2 Individual Assignment Freedom of Expression & Sedition Paper For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com • Prepare a 1,700- to 2,100-word paper in which you identify and discusses three separate events or legal developments involving the treatment of sedition in the American judicial system. One of legal event chosen must include the facts and decision in the Gitlow v. New York case. See Ch. 2 in Mass Media Law. • Describe how these three events or developments affected the limits of freedom of expression under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. • Research at least 2 peer-reviewed outside sources in addition to your text for this paper. Format your paper according to APA standards *********************************************

4. COM 440 Week 3 Individual Assignment Invasion of Privacy and Libel Case Study For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Prepare a 1,400- to 1,700-word response to the questions that follow this case study. Steve recently joined a church. Church doctrine required that members reveal any personal indiscretions to the leaders of the church. Steve disclosed some of his personal indiscretions to the leaders of the church. After his disclosures, these leaders advised Steve that they intended to tell other members of the church about his indiscretions because they thought that the church leaders might help him overcome his problems. Steve was shocked and dismayed that this personal information might be disclosed publicly. He told the church leaders about his intention to leave the church rather than have his problems disclosed publicly. The church leaders denied his request to resign, and informed him that their next step was to tell the members of the church, his neighbors, and his employer about his problems. This case study is a good example of the balance between First Amendment rights versus freedom of religion. Based on this case study, examine Steve’s rights in terms of Libel and the various Invasion of

5. Privacy Torts by addressing the issues and questions below in your response. Which of the four privacy torts do you think are specifically involved with regard to this case? Is this libel? Does the expectation of privacy apply to the facts in the case? Consider the defenses to the tort of libel and the privacy torts regarding his lawsuit. Is there a legal difference in disclosing personal indiscretions to other elders, to members of the church, or to members of the public? Format your paper according to APA standards ********************************************* COM 440 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Final Learning Team Formal Outline & References For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com

6. Resources: Final Learning Team Paper · Complete the Final Learning Team Outline & References ********************************************* COM 440 Week 4 Individual Assignment Confidentiality of Sources Paper For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com • Resources: Mass Media Law • Prepare a 1,400 to 1,700-word three-part research paper. Address the specifics within your paper of each of the following questions below as they pertain to Branzburg v. Hayes, Confidentiality, and Shield Laws. o Branzburg v. Hayes (Ch. 9) • What did the court hold in Branzburg regarding a journalist’s right to withhold confidential sources? • How have lower courts interpreted the Branzburg decision based on whether the cases involved civil, criminal, or grand jury proceedings? o Confidentiality (Ch. 10)

7. • Summarize the approach that journalists should take pertaining to promising confidentiality to sources. • What advice should journalists give to sources who demand confidentiality? o Shield Laws (Ch. 10) • There are no uniform shield laws. They vary from state to state and vary between courts. Journalists typically operate at a local level where they may or may not be protected by state shield laws. • What protections do shield laws provide, if any, in addition to federal constitutional protections supporting non-disclosure of news sources? Explain. • Format your paper according to APA standards. ********************************************* COM 440 Week 5 Individual Assignment Explicit Communication or Fair Trial Paper For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com

8. • Prepare a 1,050 to 1,400-word paper on either sexually explicit communication or fair trial. o Sexually Explicit Communication Paper Critique the regulation of current obscenity laws. Use both your text and outside research. Address the following questions within your paper: • Describe the Miller Test. What are community standards? Are community standards an appropriate way to determine obscenity? • How do legislators use time, manner, and place restrictions (such as zoning) to regulate the expression of obscene or erotic material? • How does recent federal regulation attempt to control obscenity? o Fair Trial Paper Analyze the legal balance between free press and the three important methods below by which the courts assure a fair trial. Address the following questions within your paper: • Traditional judicial remedies • Restrictive orders to control publicity • Closure of proceedings and Sealed documents ********************************************* COM 440 Week 5 Learning Team Assignments Final Learning Team Paper For more classes visit

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