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Media Law Prof Blog
Stewart and Littau on The Right to Lie With AI? FIrst Amendment Challenges For State Efforts To Curb False Political Speech Using Deepfakes and Synthetic Media @jeremylittau.com
Daxton Stewart, Texas Christian University, and Jeremy Littau, Lehigh University, have published The Right to Lie with AI? First Amendment challenges for state efforts to curb false political speech using…
Municipal Minute
Court Rejects Police Officers’ First Amendment Lawsuit Relating to their Personal Social Media Activities
A federal district court recently rejected police officers' claims that their First Amendment rights were violated by a city after the officers were disciplined or terminated for their personal social…
Religion Clause
Volunteer Prison Minister’s Challenge to Requirements for Addressing LGBTQ Inmates Is Rejected
In Kuenzi v. Reese, (D OR, Oct. 28, 2024), an Oregon federal district court rejected 1st Amendment challenges to an Oregon prison system rule requiring volunteers in prison facilities to sign…
Simple Justice
Tuesday Talk*: Is AI To Blame For Teen’s Suicide?
Ed. Note: The idea for today’s post came from biochemistry prof Chris Halkides, who raised questions about whether teens are “amusing” themselves to death, or whether the First Amendment protects…
Broadcast Law Blog
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: October 21, 2024 to October 25, 2024
By David Oxenford, Keenan Adamchak
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these…
Nahmod Law
Villarreal v. City of Laredo: The Supreme Court Reverses A Grant of Qualified Immunity In A First Amendment Case
In Villarreal v. City of Laredo, Texas, a 2022 Fifth Circuit case, the plaintiff was prosecuted under a never-before used (and subsequently held-unconstitutional) state statute for publishing information she obtained…
ContractsProf Blog
Michael Helfand on Contracts and the Right to Change Religions
I have been writing recently (here and here) on the intersection of contracts law and the First Amendment. In most cases, I argued, courts pay scant attention to contractual rights…
SDNY Blog
Judge Torres: City Law Compelling Food Delivery Platforms to Share Customer Data With Restaurants Is Unconstitutional Compelled Speech
In an opinion Wednesday, Judge Torres held unconstitutional a New York City law mandating that online food delivery platforms like Door Dash share customer data (e.g., name, address, email, phone)…
School Law
Regulating Political Speech in the School Setting
By Thomas B. Mooney, Dori Pagé Antonetti
With students and teachers now back in school and a contentious national election approaching, school administrators may be faced with challenges if and when students and teachers seek to engage…
Religion Clause
Pregnancy Resource Center Sues Massachusetts Officials Over Opposition Campaign
Suit was filed last week in a Massachusetts federal district court by Your Options Medical Center, an anti-abortion pregnancy resource center, against Massachusetts officials and an abortion rights foundation, alleging…