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Industry Urges SCOTUS to Consider FDA Graphic Cigarette Warnings
By Bryan Haynes, Agustin Rodriguez, Zie Alere
In August, a group of tobacco companies filed a petition for certiorari at the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking review of a lower court's holding that the First Amendment does not…
Media Law Prof Blog
Post on The Enigma of Gitlow: Positivism, Liberty, Democracy, and Freedom of Speech @YaleLawSch
Robert Post, Yale Law School, has published The Enigma of Gitlow: Positivism, Liberty, Democracy, and Freedom of Speech. Here is the abstract.Gitlow v. New York held that courts should defer…
Chicago Criminal Law Blog
Growing Concerns Over Social Media and Government Agencies
DOJ Sets Procedures for Federal Agencies to Interact with Social Media Companies The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently announced that it had developed and implemented formal policies and procedures for…
PrawfsBlawg
Cheering speech in context
Main Wednesday, July 10, 2024Cheering speech in contextProtection for cheering speech--fan speech during sporting events--depends on context. Different sports employ different norms and practices, which affect what is acceptable fan…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Freedom of Expressive Association vs. Equal Protection: Boy Scouts of America v. Dale 25 Years Later
Elizabeth Sepper has posted an interesting new look at Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, a nearly 25 year old case in which the Supreme Court upheld the Boy Scouts…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Velte on “The Supreme Court’s Gaslight Docket”
By Jamie Abrams
Kyle Velte has published "The Supreme Court's Gaslight Docket" in Volume 96 of the Temple Law Review. Here is the article's abstract: The U.S. Supreme Court's new conservative supermajority is gaslighting the…
On Brief: Iowa's Appellate Blog
April 2024 Opinion Roundup
The Iowa Supreme Court entered opinions in nine cases during April 2024. You can read Rox Laird’s analysis of White v. Department of Human Services, State v. Wilson, and Kirkwood…
Human Rights at Home Blog
New Article: Protesters’ legal rights are up for debate
Danielle Braff, Protesters’ legal rights are up for debate, ABAJournal (May, 2024)With protests continuing to unfold across the country, the legal society turns their spotlight to reemphasize what rights these…
Municipal Minute
Court of Appeals Upholds Injunction Against a Library’s Removal of Controversial Books
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion on June 6th upholding a court's issuance of a preliminary injunction against a library in a First Amendment challenge to the…
TortsProf Blog
Abraham on Free Speech and Liability Insurance
Ken Abraham has posted to SSRN Free Speech, Breathing Space, and Liability Insurance. The abstract provides:In New York Times v. Sullivan (1964), the Supreme Court began adopting First Amendment restrictions on…