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Supreme Court Update
Reed v. Town of Gilbert (13-502) and Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. (14-144)
By Tadhg Dooley, Kim Rinehart, Jeffrey Babbin
Greetings, Court Fans!The trickle has officially become a flood. On Thursday, the Court released six new decisions, on top of the three from Monday. That leaves eleven more as we…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Sign Ordinance Violates First Amendment: Court Decides Reed v. Town of Gilbert
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawA unanimous Court, albeit with separate opinions, concluded that the extensive municipal signage regulations violated the First Amendment in…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Tracking the First Amendment Decisions of the Women Justices
By Tracy Thomas
Ronald Collins, Concurring Opinions, More on the Roberts Court & the First Amendment--the Women JusticesHow is First Amendment freedom of expression law being shaped by the current Court? One way to…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Critical New Scholarship
I haven't done a great job recently of keeping up with important scholarship in our field, but three articles posted over the last several weeks have particularly caught my attention:Catherine…
Media Law Prof Blog
Speaking and Silence: Boy Scouts v. Dale
Mae Kuykendall, Michigan State University College of Law, is publishing Evaluating the Sociology of First Amendment Silence in volume 42 of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly (2015). Here is the…
Focus on Regulation
Recent First Amendment Rumblings
By Susan Lee, Meredith Manning, Heidi Gertner, Nancy Parsons
Lately, there seems to be a palpable uptick in news related to FDA’s regulation of off-label communications. Here are some of the developments we’ve been following: In April: CDER Director…
AdLaw By Request®
Negative Reviews: Pamphleteering or Defamation?
Does the First Amendment trump the right of an aggrieved merchant who seeks to unmask the identity of the authors of scathing reviews? That’s how many framed the key issue…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Commentary: Are Judicial Elections Different After All? Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar.
Ever since the 2002 case of Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down, on First Amendment Grounds, the “announce clause” of the Minnesota…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Rejects First Amendment Challenge to Disclosure of Significant Donors to NonProfit
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawThe Ninth Circuit's opinion in Center for Competitive Politics v. Harris rejected a First Amendment challenge to a disclosure…
EvidenceProf Blog
Ramadan, Ei al-Fitr, and the First Amendment in Prison
By Colin Miller
While researching the Adnan Syed case, I became curious about why he was absent on January 19, 1999 due to "Observation of Religious Holiday." In 1999, Ramadan ended on January 17th,…