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Media Law Prof Blog
Anonymous Speech Online
Miguel E. Larios, The John Marshall Law School, has published "E-Publius Unum: Anonymous Speech Rights Online." Here is the abstract. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits Congress from enacting…
Media Law Prof Blog
The First Amendment and the Right of Publicity
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, DePaul University College of Law, has published "A Perspective on Human Dignity, the First Amendment and the Right of Publicity," in volume 51 of the Boston College…
Media Law Prof Blog
Looking at Women Through the First Amendment
Amy M. Adler, New York University, School of Law, has published "Medusa: A Glimpse of the Woman in First Amendment Law," forthcoming in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.…
Media Law Prof Blog
A History of the Use of Media Subpoenas
RonNell Andersen Jones, Brigham Young University Law School, has published "Media Subpoenas: Impact, Perception, and Legal Protection in the Changing World of American Journalism," in the Washington Law Review (forthcoming). Here…
Media Law Prof Blog
Science, the Brain, and the First Amendment
Interesting post by Marc Blitz over at Neuroscience and Law Blog on the subject of "low value speech" and the assumptions that scholars make about it, particularly with regard to its…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Juve LWOP and animal porn get top billing as media discuss SCOTUS docket
Main May 27, 2009Juve LWOP and animal porn get top billing as media discuss SCOTUS docketWith the naming (finally!) of a new SCOTUS nominee, the press is now started to…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Court Rejects Ex-Detainee’s Suit Against Ashcroft and Mueller
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A split (5-4) Supreme Court ruled today in Ashcroft v. Iqbal that allegations in an ex-detainee's complaint against former AG Ashcroft and FBI Director Mueller for constitutional torts while in custody after 9/11 were…
Legal Profession Blog
Important Decision On Bar Confidentiality
The Louisiana Supreme Court has dismissed disciplinary charges against two attorneys who had been charged with violating bar rules mandating confidentiality of disciplinary proceedings . The court held that the rule…
Labor Law Prof Blog
A Union Win in the Locke Case
The Supreme Court has just issued its decision in Locke v. Karass (see here for our description of the case and here for our take on the oral argument). Although…
Legal Profession Blog
Sixth Circuit Throws Out Fieger Suit
In a 2-1 opinion issued today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit remanded with instructions to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Geoffrey Fieger and Richard Steinberg…