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Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
First Amendment Free Speech Protections Limit University’s Enforcement of its Sexual Harassment Policy
A Federal Appeals Court in Philadelphia enjoined Temple University from enforcing its “facially overbroad” sexual harassment policy because some speech that creates a “hostile or offensive environment” may be protected…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Third Circuit finds Child Online Protection Act facially unconstitutional
Main July 22, 2008Third Circuit finds Child Online Protection Act facially unconstitutionalThe Third Circuit has been giving the Constitution a work out recently. Late last week, as detailed here, it…
Media Law Prof Blog
A New Model For Reviewing Sexually Explicit Material On the Internet
Patrick M. Garry, University of South Dakota School of Law, has published "A New First Amendment Model for Evaluating Content-Based Regulation of Internet Pornography: Revising the Strict Scrutiny Model to…
Media Law Prof Blog
A New Model For Regulating Internet Pornography
Patrick M. Garry, University of South Dakota School of Law, has published "A New First Amendment Model for Evaluating Content-Based Regulation of Internet Pornography: Revising the Strict Scrutiny Model to…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Pope Says American Secularism Leads to Pro-Choice Views
TIME/CNN: The Pope Faces His US Flock, by Jeff Israely and David Van Biema:For many years and more frequently in the past month, Benedict has been lauding America's vigorous piety,which…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Thoughtful thoughts on Judge Weinstein’s work inPolizzi
Main April 7, 2008Thoughtful thoughts on Judge Weinstein's work in PolizziOver at Volokh, Orin Kerr has this extended discussion of Judge Weinstein's very extended Polizzi opinion (basics here and here),…
Media Law Prof Blog
Drink Up: Magistrate Judge Rules That Virginia May Not Limit College Newspaper Ads Referring To Alcohol
A magistrate judge has ruled that two Virginia administrative code provisions limiting or banning the language pertaining to alcohol ads in college newspapers violate the First Amendment of the U.S.…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Baworowsky on Theoretical Foundations of First and Fourteenth Amendment Protection of Corporate Religious Speech
Julie Marie Baworowsky (Notre Dame student) has posted on SSRN her forthcoming note in the Notre Dame Law Review entitled: From Public Square to Market Square: Theoretical Foundations of First…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Pornography and Public Employment: Further Implications of Garcetti
Having just returned from speaking at a great conference hosted by the First Amendment Law Review at UNC on all things Garcetti, it is interesting to see many of the…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Rutherglen on Public Employee Free Speech Rights
Of course, this is a topic near and dear to my heart, so it was with great pleasure that I saw that one of the preeminent labor and employment scholar,…