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Broadcast Law Blog
Is the Requirement that Broadcasters Give Lowest Unit Rates to Political Candidates Unconstitutional? The Republican Party Files a Lawsuit to Find Out
Throughout this election season, we’ve been following the battle over lowest unit rates – the requirement that, during the 45 days before a primary and the 60 days before a…
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Police officer has a viable retaliation case under the First Amendment
By secondcircuitcivilrightsblogsecondcircuitcivilrig
The Court of Appeals holds that a police officer may challenge a promotion denial that he claims was in retaliation for speaking out against possible supervisory misconduct.The case is Beatty v.…
Consumer Protection Connection
SB 343 Court Removes ENE Conference From Calendar While Considering Request to Add SB 54 Claims
By Sheila Millar, Antonia Stamenova-Dancheva
On October 23, 2026, the Court vacated its order to hold an Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE) conference in the ongoing litigation involving a First Amendment challenge to SB 343, California’s…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
City Government Can Use Facebook’s Anti-Bot Tool–Jalisi v. Poway
By Eric Goldman
The City of Poway has a public Facebook page. Jalisi has been a critic of the city government, and he made critical posts on the city’s Facebook page. He claims…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Alex Berenson’s Deplatforming Lawsuit Fails in the Second Circuit–Berenson v. Gottlieb
By Eric Goldman
Generated by ChatGPT Dec. 2025 Alex Berenson is a one-time N.Y. Times reporter whose life appears to have taken an unfortunate turn in the wake of MAGA and COVID. According…
Truth on the Market
The FCC’s Public Interest in Your Personnel Files
By Ben Sperry
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licenses television stations. Does that make it Disney’s human resources department? The agency seems to think so, invoking a “public interest” mandate to investigate the…
Paul W. Mollica Federal Courts Blog
Split Eleventh Circuit Panel Holds That Local School Board’s Decisions to Remove Specific Books from the School Library Are Not Covered by Legislative Privilege
In Pen American Center, Inc. v. Bergosh, No. 25-13298 (11th Cir. Oct. 19, 2026), a 2-1 panel holds that school board members could be compelled to testify about why they…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Court Refuses to Block Executive Order Barring ‘Racially Discriminatory DEI Activities’ by Federal Contractors
By By T. Scott Kelly, Nonnie L. Shivers, Publisher, Zachary V. Zagger
Quick Hits On October 14, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland denied a preliminary injunction sought by five organizations whose members include government contractors, leaving Executive…
The Southern District of Florida Blog
Put That in Your Algorithm
By johnr-byrnesdfla-blogspot-com
By John R. ByrneI think social media is doing a lot of harm to our kids (and probably us adults as well). Sure, it may be the quickest way for…
Broadcast Law Blog
Supreme Court Delivers What Appears to be the Final Word on LUC for Political Parties and Joint Fundraising Committees Before the November Election – But Is a Constitutional Challenge to LUC the Next Battle?
The question of whether ads from political parties and joint fundraising committees, when authorized by federal candidates, receive Lowest Unit Charge (LUC) from broadcasters and local cable systems has been…