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Court Upholds Termination of School Counselor for Speech at Rally
A Wisconsin school district terminated a school counselor after she delivered a profanity-laden speech denouncing gender ideology and transgenderism and their impact on children at a rally at the state…
PrawfsBlawg
Until Paramount seized the trophy . . . (Updated)
Main Wednesday, July 02, 2025Until Paramount seized the trophy . . . (Updated)It appears that institutions will stick together in response to Trump authoritarianism. Not by joining together in collective…
Media and Communications Policy
Government’s Unprecedented Threat to the First Amendment
Our current political moment poses challenges unlike anything I thought I would face as an FCC Commissioner. This Administration has been on a campaign to censor and control since, well,…
Legal Theory Blog
Lebrón on the State Action Doctrine and Gender Equality
Aníbal Rosario Lebrón (Rutgers Law School) has posted Between the Pessimism of State Action and the Optimism of SSOGIE Equality (53 SW. L. REV. 303 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is…
Legal Theory Blog
Muñoz on History and Tradition in Supreme Church-State Cases
Vincent Phillip Muñoz (University of Notre Dame - Department of Political Science) has posted History and Tradition in the Trump Justices’ Church-State Jurisprudence on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This…
PrawfsBlawg
Eidelson & Hellman on antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and Title VI
Main Tuesday, May 27, 2025Eidelson & Hellman on antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and Title VISSRN Link here, forthcoming next month in Harvard Law Review Forum. Ben summarized the piece on Bluesky.Their conclusions…
Legal Theory Blog
Tourkochoriti on Conscientious Objection to Anti-Discrimination Law
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (University of Baltimore School of Law; Harvard Law School; University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law) has posted LGBTQ WEDDING PARTY: CONSCIENTIOUS…
PrawfsBlawg
More campus-speech narratives and problems
Main Thursday, May 08, 2025More campus-speech narratives and problemsInside Higher Ed (may be paywalled) reports on the latest Republican Converse Auto-Da-Fe.• The hearing involved the Presidents of DePaul, Cal Poly…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Identity and Procedural Subordination in SCOTUS’ LGBTQ Religious Exemption Cases
By Tracy Thomas
Kyle Velte, Identity and Procedural Subordination in LGBTQ Religious Exemption Cases In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, and 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis,…
Legal Theory Blog
Fay on Secular Liberalism as a Religion
Julia Fay (Columbia Law School) has posted "Religious" Secularism and Legitimacy in American Democracy (Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, Vol. 57.2, pp. 215-262 (2024)) on SSRN. Here is…