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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…
Media Law Prof Blog
Steinberg on Morphed Child Pornography and the First Amendment @sgsteinberg
Stacey Steinberg, University of Florida College of Law, is publishing Changing Faces: Morphed Child Pornography and the First Amendment in the Emory Law Journal (2019). Here is the abstract.Technology has…
Media Law Prof Blog
Aviel on Rule 8.4(g) and the First Amendment: Distinguishing Between Discrimination and Free Speech @SturmCOL
Rebecca Aviel, University of Denver College of Law, is publishing Rule 8.4(g) and the First Amendment: Distinguishing between Discrimination and Free Speech in volume 31 of the Georgetown Journal of…
PrawfsBlawg
Ministerial exemption as a mandatory merits defense
Main Thursday, September 06, 2018Ministerial exemption as a mandatory merits defenseI have thought much about the jurisdictional status of the ministerial exemption since SCOTUS decided (correctly) in Hosanna-Tabor that the…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Three Judge Court Invalidates North Carolina Redistricting Plan Redux
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law In an extensive opinion, a three judge court in Common Cause v. Rucho (& League of Women Voters v. Rucho)…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Eleventh Circuit: Public Food Sharing is Expressive Activity Under First Amendment
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn its opinion in Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs v. City of Fort Lauderdale, the Eleventh Circuit reversed the…
DDH Insights
In Arkansas, Freedom of Religion Does Not Mean Freedom From Religion
By Adrienne Griffis The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rejects First Amendment Challenge to Rap Music Video as Threat
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law In its opinion in Commonwealth v. Knox, a majority of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a conviction for…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
D.C. Circuit Remands Metro’s Ad Restriction for Reasonableness Determination
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe D.C. Circuit ruled in American Freedom Defense Initiative v. WMATA that the D.C. Metro's restriction on certain advertisements was a view-point neutral regulation in…