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Ninth Circuit Upholds Campaign Contribution, Firearms Ban for Foreign Nationals, Nonimmigrant Visa Holders
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Ninth Circuit last week upheld federal bans on campaign contributions and firearms possession by foreign nationals and nonimmigrant visa holders, respectively, against First…
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Ballparks as public spaces and free speech
Main Wednesday, May 15, 2019Ballparks as public spaces and free speechInteresting interview with architectural critic Paul Goldberger about his new book, Ballpark: Baseball in the American City, in which he…
Corporate and Securities Law
Are SEC Gag Orders Unconstitutional? – SEC Defendant Asks Court to Lift Restrictions
Ohio Employer Law Blog
Your employees do not understand their (lack of) free speech rights
Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech….So reads the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.Take note that it does not say, “You have absolute freedom of speech…
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Florida State University System Free Expression Statement
Main Tuesday, April 16, 2019Florida State University System Free Expression StatementThe Florida State University System issued a Free Expression Statement to "support and encourage full and open discourse and the…
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Free speech petards
Main Wednesday, April 03, 2019Free speech petardsLast month I wrote about the controversy at UC-Davis, where people unearthed old tweets from an English professor calling for police officers to be…
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On “Big Mountain Jesus” (again) . . . and also liberalism, the First Amendment, Dignitatis Humanae, etc.
Main Thursday, March 28, 2019On "Big Mountain Jesus" (again) . . . and also liberalism, the First Amendment, Dignitatis Humanae, etc.I've posted a few times about the "Big Mountain Jesus"…
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Inclusive forests and racist-insult trees
Main Sunday, March 24, 2019Inclusive forests and racist-insult treesThe history podcast Backstory did an episode on the history of profanity. The fourth piece is an interview with Smith College history…
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More right-wing snowflakes are outraged
Main Monday, March 18, 2019More right-wing snowflakes are outragedThis story about calls by some UC-Davis students and California Republicans for the firing of a Davis professor who called (on Twitter,…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
AG Barr Invokes States Secrets Privileges in Twitter Suit
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolAttorney General Barr invoked the state secrets privilege to protect material in Twitter's suit against the Justice Department for forbidding it from publishing information…