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Re:Judge rules Utah law banning undercover farm filming is u... by arthur_trudeau on Saturday July 08, 2017 @01:31AM (#14724223)
Reporting on legal decisions is garbage when it doesn't even include the name of the case, or better a pointer to the opinion, so I can read the ruling myself.

But it seems tenuous to me to claim that the state can criminalize trespassing, but not trespassing for the purposes of X, or conspiring to trespass to commit X, regardless of X.

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Re:Judge rules Utah law banning undercover farm filming is u... by wtallis on Saturday July 08, 2017 @02:57AM (#14724460)
> "But it seems tenuous to me to claim that the state can criminalize trespassing, but not trespassing for the purposes of X, or conspiring to trespass to commit X, regardless of X."

In this case, X is speech protected by the First Amendment. The state cannot make "trespassing for the purposes of making legal speech" a worse crime than trespassing in general.

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Re:Judge rules Utah law banning undercover farm filming is u... by SwellJoe on Saturday July 08, 2017 @01:39AM (#14724252)
The law isn't about trespassing.
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Re:Judge rules Utah law banning undercover farm filming is u... by URSpider94 on Saturday July 08, 2017 @02:01AM (#14724321)
The case is 2:13-cv-00679-RJS
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