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No free speech claim after school directed teacher to remove gay pride flag from classroom
By secondcircuitcivilrightsblogsecondcircuitcivilrig
The Court of Appeals has ruled that a school teacher in Suffolk County did not have the First Amendment right to post pride flags and stickers in her classroom, and…
Law & Humanities Blog
Galanis on Roger Williams and Religious Liberty: Conscience, Civil Jurisdiction and the Constitutional Separation of Church and State
By christinecorcoslawlit-blogspot-com
Panagiotis Galanis, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, has published Roger Williams and Religious Liberty: Conscience, Civil Jurisdiction and the Constitutional Separation of Church and State. Here is the abstract. Roger…
Simple Justice
ABC Decides To Fight, After Choosing To Capitulate
Some learn the hard way that no matter how big a bribe you pay to buy “peace” from someone whose feelings are so fragile, so easily hurt, and so shamelessly…
Boston Lawyer Blog
Free Speech at College: What are Professors’ Rights?
By Noah Gillen
In the past couple of years, college campuses have dealt with a range of free speech challenges that have become increasingly difficult to navigate amid a polarized political climate and heightened government scrutiny. As campus leaders and…
Balkinization
Milton, Mill, and (Maybe) Aristotle on Why Hearing Horrible Speech Makes You a Better Person
By andrewkoppelmanbalkin-blogspot-com
How do you sell the idea of free speech to people who worry that words hurt? In the last few years, there have been increasing demands, most prominently on college…
Law of the Land
Fed. Dist. Court Dismisses Summary Judgment Motion on RLUIPA Claim Regarding Special Permit Application Request for a Prayer Campus
This post was authored by Luke Jenkins, Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsber Law Center Plaintiffs, a corporation and its director, brought suit against the Charter Township of Genoa and its…
Municipal Minute
7th Circuit Addresses First Amendment Challenge to Town’s Deletion of Comments on Website
In Schulte v. Leners, et al., the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals addressed a challenge to a municipal official's deletion of critical comments on the town's website, as well as…
Municipal Minute
Employees First Amendment Retaliation Claims Rejected by Court
In Fox v. DuPage Township, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected former employees' First Amendment claim that they were terminated because they campaigned for an opposing candidate for election…
Legal History Blog
Edwards on the Minority Rights First Amendment
By Dan Ernst
Jerry Edwards, West Virginia University College of Law, has posted The Birth of the Minority Rights First Amendment:An incongruence exists in the literature on the nineteenth-century history of expressive freedom.…
Municipal Minute
11th Circuit Finds City Panhandling Ordinance Unconstitutional
In Scott v. City of Daytona Beach, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down several provisions of a city ordinance that restricted panhandling. Daytona Beach, Florida, enacted Ordinance No.…