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NJ Family Legal Blog
New Bill – A1475 – Offers a Potential Avenue for Legal Relief to Victims of Get Refusal
By Eliana Baer
My recent blog post, Appellate Division Rules That A Court Cannot Compel Arbitration on Get Issue Absent Agreement, discussed the constraints faced by secular courts in the context of Get…
PrawfsBlawg
FIRE adopts preferred first speaker
Main Monday, April 17, 2023FIRE adopts preferred first speakerAccording to FIRE Executive VP Nico Perrino, in an op-ed endorsed by the Chief of the LAPD. Here is the central basis…
The Right Coast
Shellenberger: The Government Funding Someone Else To Censor Information Is Still A First Amendment Violation | Video | RealClearPolitics
Michael Shellenberger, who testified at the "Twitter Files" hearing last month, talked to Joe Rogan about working on the project and what they found about how intelligence agencies infiltrated social…
Waller Law Blogs
Social Media and Free Speech: The Legal Limits of Online Expression
Social media has revolutionized the way people interact and share information, but it has also raised important questions about the legal limits of online expression. While the internet has traditionally…
PrawfsBlawg
More on “Civil Discourse” and Judge Duncan
Main Tuesday, March 28, 2023More on "Civil Discourse" and Judge DuncanI was substantially offline for a while, and so missed a number of updates and posts -- scroll down, and…
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Judge Duncan still does not get it
Main Monday, March 27, 2023Judge Duncan still does not get itI was not at Judge Duncan's talk at Notre Dame last week, have not seen video, and have not read…
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Asymmetrical Censorship
Main Thursday, March 16, 2023Asymmetrical CensorshipConventional wisdom holds that "both sides" want to restrict speech and lack respect for the First Amendment and free speech values. But that "both sides"…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The First Amendment and the Second Sex
By Tracy Thomas
Cristina Tilley, The First Amendment and the Second Sex, 65 Arizona L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023)Modern American law describes speech in stereotypically masculine terms: it is a “marketplace” where participants “joust”…
New Jersey Law Blog
The Limits of Artistic Expression: A Look Behind How MetaBirkin NFTs Infringed on Hermès’ Famous Trademark and Handbag Trade Dress
By Gene Markin
In early 2023, a federal jury found an opportunistic meta-artist infringed on a luxury fashion house’s iconic handbag trademark. Digital artist Mason Rothschild created 100 unique “MetaBirkin” non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”)…
Simple Justice
Laws and Letters
With some regularity, I’ve argued why “law is hard.” To put together words with sufficiently precise definitions and limiting principles so as to say exactly what’s intended, and to do…