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The Faculty Lounge
Manliness
I want to thank Dean Dan Filler for inviting me to blog. One of my chief scholarly interests is manliness and its relation to law and politics. While the topic…
Consumer Class Defense Blog
Ninth Circuit Reconsidering San Francisco Soda Health Warning
One of the latest efforts by a municipality to address public health concerns by requiring warnings on certain products may be revived depending on the outcome of a recent rehearing…
The Faculty Lounge
SJP at UCLA
The genius of the First Amendment is that it applies even those who do not respect or believe in it. The same goes for academic freedom, which encourages the broadest…
Media Law Prof Blog
Illinois Supreme Court Rejects Media Request For Access To Sealed Motions In Criminal Case Prior To Jury Selection
The Supreme Court of Illinois has reversed a lower court ruling which would have allowed access to motions in limine sealed in a criminal case prior to jury selection. Intervenors…
Media Law Prof Blog
Pen American Center Files Lawsuit Against Trump For Violation of First Amendment Protections
PENAmerica is suing Donald Trump over certain acts that he has taken as President and comments that he has made while in office that PEN alleges that have "violated the…
PrawfsBlawg
Two free speech stories
Main Wednesday, October 10, 2018Two free speech stories1) I agree with this argument about the problem of demeaning all protesters as uncivil, insincere, unruly mobs, which allows those in power…
ContractsProf Blog
Deciding insubordination isn’t the same as judging spiritual leadership
I just blogged about the ministerial exception of the First Amendment, and now here's another case discussing it! This recent case out of California, Sumner v. Simpson University, C077302, was…
The Faculty Lounge
Frank Zappa on the First Amendment
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Appeals Court Finds That Concrete Cross Violates Establishment Clause, But Is Reversal In Sight?
[caption id="attachment_2553" align="alignright" width="320"] A photo of the cross in Bayview Park. Source: Fox News.[/caption] Last week, a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a…
ContractsProf Blog
Court refuses to judge what adequate spiritual leadership looks like
A recent case out of the Third Circuit, Lee v. Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church of Pittsburgh, No. 17-3086, applies the ministerial exception of the First Amendment and refuses to…