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...really happening: R. Kelly, R&B's self-professed Pied Piper, is having his day(s) in court, facing charges that he videotaped himself having sex with an underage female. Now that it's on, the trial itself has already proven to be as much of a cliffhanger as the six years that lead...
...Muslims in France were no more amused than the ones in Denmark. (They consider any depiction of Mohammed to be blasphemy.) So three Islamic groups brought suit against Charlie Hebdo. Leconte's film follows the trial through recollections of witnesses and the legal teams as well as documenting the religious and political debates in the halls outside the courtroom. He focuses on the chronological suspense of the trial, and has the benefit of defense attorneys whose brilliance is as sharp as the magazine's. When the plaintiffs' lawyer argues that Islam is caricatured more unfairly than other religions, one attorney...
...school, Heather's mother, Ardena Gillman, decided more serious action was called for. She talked to the local branch of the American Civil Liberties union, which pursued the case on the grounds that Gillman's First Amendment rights were being violated. This week, in a two-day trial that resulted in a rare, immediate ruling from the federal bench, Gillman won her suit against the Holmes County school district...
...homosexuality was wrong, calling it a "rumor that the kids took off running with," Davis did tell the court that rainbows and T-shirts with messages such as "God loves me the way I am" called to mind images of gay people having sex. He also conceded during the trial that he would allow students to promote the image of the Confederate flag at school because, in contrast to the rainbow images, he did not foresee the flag creating a "disruption...
...nonetheless. Griffin, who says he just "didn't think expressions about that lifestyle were appropriate in the school setting," acknowledged that "times are changing" and said he'll comply with whatever the court orders. Ardena Gillman, who didn't think her shy daughter would ever go through with a trial, learned Heather was "not your typical teenager." As for Heather, the experience was a powerful firsthand lesson in civics. After winning the case, she scrapped her long-held plans to become a flight attendant after high school. Now, she says, "I'm going to college...