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Ninth Circuit Says No Free Speech for Off-Campus Sexual Harassment
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Ninth Circuit ruled today in C.R. v. Eugene School District 4J that a student's sexually-harassing speech a few hundred feet off school property…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
RLUIPA Defense/Rocky Mountain Sign Law Joint Blog Post: Pennsylvania Borough’s Church Directional Signs Did Not Violate the Establishment Clause
This post is authored as a joint post of the RLUIPA Defense (www.rluipa-defense.com) and Rocky Mountain Sign Law (www.rockymountainsignlaw.com) blogs. Evan Seeman of Robinson & Cole and Brian Connolly of…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Upholds Upholds California Ban on Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy Against Religion Clauses Challenge
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn a sequel to the Ninth Circuit's 2013 decision in Pickup v. Brown upholding California's SB 1172, prohibiting licensed…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Texas Attorney General Opinion: Prayer to Start Court Is Constitutional
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawControversial Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued an opinion today that the First Amendment's Establishment Clause is not violated…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Requires Proof to Challenge Open Primary
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Ninth Circuit ruled in Democratic Party of Hawaii v. Nago that the plaintiff failed sufficiently to prove that Hawaii's open primary violated its…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Officer’s Allegations of Misconduct are Protected Speech
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Seventh Circuit ruled today in Kristofek v. Village of Orland Hills that a police officer's allegation of official misconduct in the higher ranks…
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Why to Abstain from the 2016 Presidential Election (At Least in the Workplace), Part I
Although the Republican National Convention is now behind us in Cleveland, we still have several months of campaigning to endure prior to the presidential election. During this time of year,…
The Right Coast
Judith Miller: How Mike Pence worked to protect freedom of the press | Fox News
When I went to jail for three months in the summer of 2005 to protect the First Amendment by refusing to identity my sources in a case involving the leak…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Upholds L.A.’s Mobile Billboard Ordinances Against First Amendment Challenge
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn its opinion in Lone Star Security and Video v. City of Los Angeles, the Ninth Circuit upheld L.A.'s…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Federal Court: Gaming is Not Protected Speech
This post was authored by Otten Johnson summer law clerk Matt Bender. Matt is a rising third-year law student at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Two weeks…