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Media Law Prof Blog
Franks on Fearless Speech @ma_franks
Mary Anne Franks, University of Miami School of Law, is publishing Fearless Speech in volume 17 of the First Amendment Law Review (2019). Here is the abstract.The American conception of…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Denies Certiorari Over Dissent in Prisoner Grievance First Amendment Challenge
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawThe Court denied certiorari to the Ninth Circuit in Dahne v. Richey with a dissenting opinion by Justice Alito,…
The Right Coast
Hail Satan? A New Documentary Depicts Devil Worshipers as Unlikely Defenders of the First Amendment – YouTube
"The Satanic Temple is a new religious organization that was founded in 2013, kind of as a prank, but very quickly gained a huge amount of authentic followers," says Penny Lane,…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
Your employees do not understand their (lack of) free speech rights
Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech….So reads the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.Take note that it does not say, “You have absolute freedom of speech…
Simple Justice
DeRay’s Bad Day
It’s hard not to smile when unduly passionate ThinkProgress lawyer Ian Millhiser has something nice to say about the First Amendment, because it happens so rarely. Unfortunately, his myopia and…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Federal Judge Enjoins Texas anti-BDS Statute as Violative of First Amendment
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn an opinion in Amawi v. Pflugerville Independent School District, United States District Judge for the Western District of…
CommLaw Monitor
4th Circuit Declares Government Debt Exemption to the TCPA Unconstitutional, But Leaves the Rest of the Statute Intact
By Communications Practice Group
Since its adoption, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) has periodically been attacked as unconstitutional on grounds that it violates the First Amendment right to free speech due to its…
Food Safety News
Iowa’s new ag-gag law is the subject of another legal challenge
By Dan Flynn
The Animal Legal Defense Fund, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Bailing Out Benji, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and the Center for Food Safety were back in federal…
Media Law Prof Blog
Silbey on Control over Contemporary Photography: A Tangle of Copyright, Right of Publicity, and the First Amendment @JSilbey
Jessica M. Silbey, Northeastern University School of Law, has published Control over Contemporary Photography: A Tangle of Copyright, Right of Publicity, and the First Amendment at 42 Columbia Journal of…
Media Law Prof Blog
Tushnet on the First Amendment and Trademark Registration @rtushnet
Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University Law Center, has published The First Amendment Walks Into a Bar: Trademark Registration and Free Speech, at 92 Notre Dame L. Rev. 381 (2016). Here is…