Cross-Burning in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as covered on the
Loper Website
(See also, Hate/Bias
Crime Series on the Loper Website)
Newspaper Articles
Klansman Guilty
of Burning Cross
The Washington Post, June 24, 1999
VA Appeals
Court Upholds Cross-Burning Conviction
The Daily Progress, Dec. 31, 2000
Mount
Washington Kentucky Unmasks Ku Klux Klan
The Daily Progress, July 24, 2001
Deeds,
Weed, O'Brien and Richards Speak at Democratic Forum
The Daily Progress, November 9, 2001
Intimidation
vs. Free Expression
Roanoke Times, December 8, 2002
High Court
Upholds Ban on Cross Burning
Christian Science Monitor, April 8, 2003
Long After
the Fire, Fear's Embers Linger
Washington Post, April 11, 2003
Commentary
Virginia Valentine
Coles Comments on Cross Burning Law and Virginia Supreme Court
November 10, 2001
Ed Wayland
Comments on Cross Burning Law and Virginia Supreme Court
November 11, 2001
David RePass
Comments on Cross Burning
November 11, 2001
Waldo Jaquith
Comments on Cross Burning
November 11, 2001
Lloyd Snook
Agrees With the Virginia Supreme Court that the Virginia Cross-burning Statute
is Unconstitutional
November 12, 2001
Downing Smith
Comments on Cross Burning
November 12, 2001
Virginia Valentine
Coles Responds to Lloyd Snook
November 12, 2001
Josh Wheeler
Comments on Misperceptions about Virginia Supreme Court Decision
November 12, 2001
Kay Peaslee
Comments on Her Own Experience with Cross Burning
November 12, 2001
Lloyd Snook
Responds to Downing Smith and Others Regarding Virginia Cross Burning Statute
November 12, 2001
Josh
Wheeler Elaborates on His Views on Cross Burning, Threats and the First
Amendment
November 13, 2001
Why it
was right to strike down the cross-burning law
(Kevin E. Martingayle, November 18, 2001)
Legal Proceedings
Decision of
the Virginia Supreme Court
November 2, 2001
Excerpts
from Petition for Writ of Certiorari/ Commonwealth of Virginia vs. Barry
Elton Black, Richard J. Elliott and Jonathan O'Mara
February 20, 2002
Summary of
Thomas Jefferson Center's Amicus Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the
Virginia Cross-Burning Case
Decision
of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Virginia Cross-Burning Case
April 7, 2003
Concurring
Opinion by Justice Stevens in the Virginia Cross-Burning Case
April 7,
2003
Dissenting
Opinion by Justice Thomas in the Virginia Cross-Burning Case
April 7,
2003
Opinion
by Justice Souter in the Virginia Cross-Burning Case
April 7,
2003
Opinion
by Justice Scalia in the Virginia Cross-Burning Case
April 7,
2003
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