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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Legal Scholars Urge Obama To Resist Calls for Overly Broad Religious Exemption in Anti-Discrimination Executive Order
Columbia Law School press release: Public Rights/Private Conscience Project Spearheads New Effort:Legal Scholars Urge President Obama to Resist Calls for Overly Broad Religious Exemption in Proposed Executive OrderNew York, July…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
More than 1/3 of Americans believe First Amendment grants too much freedom
The First Amendment Center brings us this and other sad findings regarding Americans' (mis)understanding of First Amendment protections. (h/t Josh Blackman)
Health Law Update
United States Supreme Court Strikes Down Illinois Regulatory Framework Requiring Personal Assistants for Medicaid Recipients to Pay Union Dues or Fees
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on BakerHostetler's Employment Law Spotlight blog. In its much anticipated decision in Harris v. Quinn, 573 U.S. __ (2014), the Supreme Court of the…
Workforce Bulletin
Divided Supreme Court Issues Decisions on Harris and Hobby Lobby
By Epstein Becker Green, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
By Stuart M. Gerson As expected, the last day of the Supreme Court’s term proved to be an incendiary one with the recent spirit of Court unanimity broken by two 5-4…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Sharply Divided Court Takes Another Shot at Public Sector Fair Share
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolA sharply divided Supreme Court ruled today in Harris v. Quinn that a state cannot require nonunionized home-healthcare workers, or personal assistants, in the…
RLUIPA Defense Blog
U.S. Supreme Court Invalidates Massachusetts Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone Law
By Evan Seeman, Dwight Merriam
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has stricken as a violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution a Massachusetts statute making it a crime to knowingly…
Supreme Court Update
McCullen v. Coakley (12-1168) and United States v. Clarke (13-301)
The Court closed out the Term today with Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores (13-354), holding that closely-held corporations controlled by religious families cannot be required to provide contraception coverage for…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Declares Abortion Buffer Zone Law Unconstitutional
By Tracy Thomas
From WaPost: Yet Another Unanimous Judgment in McCullen v. CoakleyIn today’s other decision, McCullen v. Coakley, all nine justices concluded that Massachusetts’ abortion clinic buffer zone law violated the First Amendment. So…
Education Law Prof Blog
Student Internet Speech Draws Media Interest after Lengthy Suspension
The now well-publicized federal lawsuit filed this week by a former high school student after he was suspended for a two-word post highlights the continuing difficulties that school officials have regulating…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Zelinsky on I Know It When I See It
Nathaniel Zelinsky, writing over at Concurring Opinions, traces the history and subsequent use of Justice Potter Stewart's famous phrase from his concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio. Zelinsky found earlier…