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DC Circuit Upholds Airline Fee Disclosure Regulation in First Amendment Challenge
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In Spirit Airlines v. US Department of Transportation, a divided opinion by a DC Circuit panel today upheld DOT regulations. The airlines challenged three regulations, all on arbitrary and capricious grounds,…
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Some Fifth Amendment Property Lessons From A Second Amendment Opinion
Update: thanks to Gideon Kanner for noting that our original read of the Georgia statute was off the mark. It did not forbid the carrying of firearms in churches, but…
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Florida Judge Overturns “Medical Privacy Concerning Firearms” Act
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Judge Marcia Cook (S.D. Fl.) last week ruled in Wollschlaeger v. Farmer that the Florida's law restricting health care providers from asking whether a patient owns a firearm violates free speech.…
Media Law Prof Blog
Free Speech and Leakers
Heidi Kitrosser, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, School of Law, has published Free Speech Aboard the Leaky Ship of State: Calibrating First Amendment Protection for Leakers of Classified Information, in…
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Court Says 1st Amendment Protects Lawyer’s Blogging
[Update: See Will Hornsby's perspective on the Hunter case.] A three-judge panel in Virginia has issued a decision that is important for lawyer-bloggers everywhere. The panel ruled that a lawyer…
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Ninth Circuit Orders Press Access to Execution
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A unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled in Associated Press v. Otter that media organizations were "quite likely" to succeed on the merits of their First Amendment claim…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Legg: Excluding Parsonages from Taxation
Martha M. Legg has written an interesting student note titled Excluding Parsonages from Taxation: Declaring a Victor in the Duel Between Caesar and the First Amendment, 10 Georgetown Journal of…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Marie Ashe on Implications for Women of U.S. Constitutional Doctrine on Religion
Marie Ashe (Suffolk University Law School) has posted Women's Wrongs, Religions' Rights: Women, Free Exercise, and Establishment in American Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract.This article provides an historical…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Origins of the First Amendment’s Speech and Press Clauses
Ronald K. L. Collins, University of Washington School of Law, has published The Speech & Press Clauses of the First Amendment at 29 Delaware Lawyer 8 (Winter 2011/2012). Here is the…
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Mass judge mangles First Amendment Tom Smith
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