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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Caroline Corbin on Whether For-Profit Corporations Have a Right to Religious Liberty
Caroline Mala Corbin (University Miami School of Law) has posted Corporate Religious Liberty on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Do for-profit corporations have a right to religious liberty? This question is…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Using Facebook “like” is Free Speech
By Peter Vogel
A court ruled that “like” is “...is the Internet equivalent of displaying a political sign in one’s front yard” and that a former employee should not have lost his job…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
A “Like” is a Like, Court Says, and is Protected Free Speech
In a closely watched case, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that a "Like" on Facebook is a form of speech that is protected under the First Amendment.…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Zimmermann Trial and Pretrial Publicity
Margaret Tarkington, Indiana University McKinney School of Law, has published Lost in the Compromise: Free Speech, Criminal Justice, and Attorney Pretrial Publicity. Here is the abstract.Publicity by the prosecution and…
The Right Coast
Bradley Smith: The Supreme Court and Ed Corsi’s Life of Political Crime – WSJ.com
It is inconceivable, however, that America's founders thought the First Amendment would allow the government to routinely require citizens to report their political activity, and be subjected to such complex…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Opinion Protects Academic Freedom Under First Amendment
In its opinion in Demers v. Austin, a panel of the Ninth Circuit this week explicitly ruled that First Amendment claims concerning "teaching andwriting on academic matters by teachers employed…
Media Law Prof Blog
Ick! Don’t Show Us That Stuff!
Ellen P. Goodman, Rutgers University, School of Law (Camden), is publishing Visual Gut Punch: Persuasion, Emotion, and the Constitutional Meaning of Graphic Disclosure in volume 99 of the Cornell Law Review (2014). Here…
Media Law Prof Blog
Remedies For Defamation
David S. Ardia, University of North Carolia, Chapel Hill, School of Law, is publishing Freedom of Speech, Defamation, and Injunctionsin the William & Mary Law Review (forthcoming). Here is the abstract.It…
Education Law Prof Blog
Emily Gold Waldman on Third Circuit Ruling in “I [heart] boobies” Case
By Derek Black
Last week,the Third Circuit issued its en banc opinion in B.H. v. Easton Area SchoolDistrict – aka the “I [heart] boobies” case. Some quick background: as part of its work to…
Media Law Prof Blog
The First Amendment and Digital Speech
Andrew Tutt, Yale University Law School, is publishing The New Speechin volume 41 of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly (2014). Here is the abstract.Could the government prevent Facebook from deleting an…