Marc J.
Randazza, a Las Vegas-based First Amendment attorney and managing partner of the Randazza Legal Group, has in interesting take on the recent media storm NBA Clippers' owner Donald Sterling.
First, many have questioned whether or not Sterling's First Amendment rights were violated. Randazza says his First Amendment rights remain intact. The First Amendment
protects you from punishment by the government because of your speech.
The NBA is a private club, and it can discipline Sterling all it wants. The government is not imposing the punishment in this situation. Neither does the First Amendment
insulate you from criticism. In fact, that's the First
Amendment in action.
Going one further though, Randazza says that what happened to Sterling may
have been illegal and was morally wrong. In
California, you can't record a conversation without the knowledge or
consent of both parties. The recording featuring Sterling and V.
Stiviano may be the result of a crime. We all say things in
private that we might not say in public. Conversely, Nevada rancher Cliven
Bundy made his own stupid and bigoted statements to
the world by choice. He deserves every ounce of obloquy heaped upon him. Complain about the National Security Agency spying on all of us yet we condone giving our closest friends the ability to do worse.
We live in a world where
our intimate conversations will be recorded and blasted to billions of
listeners. We live in a world where, say a gold digger can spy on her
sugar daddy, and the world says that the creepy old guy is the bad guy."
(source: http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/opinion/randazza-sterling-privacy/index.html?hpt=hp_c2)What do you think?
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