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Education Law Prof Blog
Daily Prayer in the Classroom?
By Derek Black
Plaintiffs in Swainsboro Primary School in Emanuel County, Georgia, have filed suit against the district, alleging that daily prayers are held in the classrooms. They add that teachers pressured their…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Fifth Circuit to Rehear Off-School Speech Case
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Fifth Circuit last week granted a school district's petition for rehearing en banc in a case involving off-campus student speech. The grant means…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“Church and State in the Founding-Era State Constitutions”
The title of this post comes from this recent legal history paper by Professor Vincent Phillip Munoz, the abstract of which states: An enormous effort has been dedicated to uncovering…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Illinois Governor Lodges Full Frontal Assault on Public Sector Fair Share
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolNewly elected Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner (R) late yesterday issued an executive order that halted enforcement of the fair share provisions in state union…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Salaita Files Federal Complaint Over University of Illinois Actions
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawRecall our discussion last August about the decision of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign officials to rescind the…
Media Law Prof Blog
Communitarian Free Speech Theories and the First Amendment
Martin Redish, Northwestern University Law School, is publishing Fear, Loathing, and the First Amendment: Optimistic Skepticism and the Theory of Free Expression in the Ohio State Law Journal (forthcoming). This…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments on Judicial Campaign Ethics and First Amendment
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawThe United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar involving a First Amendment challenge…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Robson on Judicial Candidate Solicitation Restrictions
ConLawProfBlog's own Prof. Ruthann Robson (CUNY) recently published her thoughtful, creative, and compelling piece on Williams-Yulee, the case testing Florida's ban on campaign contributions by judicial candidates, on the Supreme…
RLUIPA Defense Blog
The High Court Hears Argument: Is Gilbert’s Sign Ordinance Content-Neutral? What Standard of Review Should Apply?
By Karla Chaffee, Dwight Merriam, Evan Seeman
Last summer, we reported that the U.S. Supreme Court granted Good News Community Church’s (Church) petition for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Vanderbilt Roundtable on Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar
On Tuesday, January 20, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in the closely-watched case of Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar involving a First Amendment challenge to a state…