The court said the restrictions on "fleeting expletives" on radio and television violated the First Amendment because the policy, adopted in 2004, was vague and could inhibit free speech.

The Media Practitioners Law has been criticized both inside and outside of government as inhibiting free speech.

Here, no evidence has been, or could be, introduced to indicate whether the ordinance has been enforced in a discriminatory manner or with the aim of inhibiting unpopular speech.

Yet no one would question that it would inhibit political speech - as do restrictions on campaign finance.

"Absolutely, in no way, are we trying to inhibit free speech in this city," Young said.

Then Steve Forbes joined the suit and asked Judge Korman again to overturn the Republicans' ballot rules for the primary, charging that they inhibited free speech.

Mr. Hackney's critics argue that Penn's policy inhibited free speech.

British libel law errs by inhibiting free speech and failing to provide a system for correcting factual errors which is speedy and available to all victims of press distortion.

This page, in discussing a national campaign against smoking, once endorsed such a buffer as a way to focus on children without unduly inhibiting commercial speech aimed at adults.

It said the law's terminology did not unconstitutionally inhibit free speech by persons wanting to show the film.