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Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Muslim Surveillance in NYC: Federal Complaint Challenges Constitutionality of Practices
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The complaint in Raza v. City of New York details over 150 paragraphs of facts and alleges that NYPD practices have infringed upon the plantiffs' equal protection and First Amendment…
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Second Circuit on True Threats, The First Amendment, and the Passive Voice
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A divided Second Circuit panel upheld the conviction of Harold Turner in its opinion in United States v. Turner for threats in a blog post against Seventh Circuit Judges Easterbrook,…
Media Law Prof Blog
The First Amendment and Hot News Today
Joseph A. Tomain, Florida Coastal School of Law, has published First Amendment, Fourth Estate & Hot News: Misappropriation is Not a Solution to the Journalism Crisis in the 2012 volume…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
AP CEO Gary Pruitt Explains Why Justice Probe Violates First Amendment
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Associated Press CEO (and former First Amendment lawyer for McClatchy newspapers) Gary Pruitt gave his first television interview today to Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation and blasted the Justice…
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The New Yorker, Anonymity, and Confidential Sources
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What if the reporters' confidential sources were unknown even to the reporter? Might this solve the problems that the Court struggled with more than 40 years ago in Branzburg v.…
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Tinker and The Second Amendment: NRA School T-Shirt Causes Kerfuffle
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While the facts may not be as originally reported, the NRA t-shirt of West Virginia High School Student has been causing consternation. Was he really suspended - - - and…
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Daily Read: More to Say on the First Amendment and Sex Worker Rights
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Over at the Best Practices Policy Project, "dedicated to supporting organizations and advocates working with sex workers, people in the sex trade," two City University of New York (CUNY) School of…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Child Pornography Exception
Carissa Byrne Hessick, Arizona State University College of Law, is publishing The Limits of Child Pornographyin volume 89 of the Indiana Law Journal (2014). Here is the abstract. Although the First…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Federal Judge Rejects Challenge to WTC Cross in September 11 Memorial and Museum
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In her opinion in American Atheists v. Port of Authority of NY and NJ Judge Deborah Batts of the Southern District of New York rejected a challenge to the plan to…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Bill Keller on Corporations’ Attempts to Impose Religious Views Against Contraception on Their Employees
The New York Times (opinion column): The Conscience of a Corporation, by Bill Keller:DAVID GREEN, who built a family picture-framing business into a 42-state chain of arts and crafts stores, prides…