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Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Federal Judge Enjoins Arkansas’ Eight Scheduled Executions
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn an opinion in excess of 100 pages in McGehee v. Hutchinson, United States District Judge Kristine Baker enjoined…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
D.C. Circuit Rejects Media Claim to Guantanamo Force-Feeding Tapes
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe D.C. Circuit ruled today in the long-running Dhiab case that media intervenors had no First Amendment right to access redacted and videotapes classified as…
SDNY Blog
SCOTUS: NY Credit Card Surcharge Law Regulates Speech
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court held that New York State's law preventing merchants from charging an additional fee for using a credit card (see our previous coverage here) regulates speech,…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Second Circuit Rejects First Amendment Claim of Law Firm to Accept Investment from NonLawyers
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn its opinion in Jacoby & Myers, LLP v. The Presiding Justices of the First, Second, Third & Fourth…
Media Law Prof Blog
Kaminski on Privacy and the Right to Record @MargotKaminski
Margot E. Kaminski, Ohio State University College of Law and Yale Information Society Project, Yale Law School, is publishing Privacy and the Right to Record in volume 167 of the…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
Sixth Circuit To Rehear Legislative Prayer Case En Banc
Last week, the Sixth Circuit granted en banc review in Bormuth v. County of Jackson, where a split panel had held that a district court had erred in rejecting the plaintiff’s argument…
PrawfsBlawg
Liberal sportswriting
Main Friday, February 17, 2017Liberal sportswritingThe Ringer's Bryan Curtis has a great piece describing the evolution of sportswriting into a liberal profession and sportswriters into a group of liberal professionals.…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Daily Read: Press and the First Amendment
In their op-ed in The New York Times, "Don’t Expect the First Amendment to Protect the Media," ConLawProfs Ronnell Anderson Jones and Sonja West argue that while it may be…
Drug & Device Law
Obama FDA’s Parting Shot On Off-Label Promotion And The First Amendment
By Bexis
We haven’t digested it yet, so this isn’t a substantive post, but we wanted to make our readers aware that today the FDA made an announcement, which states in pertinent…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
D.C. Circuit Rejects Free Speech Claim of Inauguration Protest Group
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe D.C. Circuit rejected a claim today that the Park Service's set-aside of Freedom Plaza for the Inauguration Committee violated the free speech rights…