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PrawfsBlawg
FIU Law Review: Barnette at 75
Main Wednesday, April 17, 2019FIU Law Review: Barnette at 75I am happy to announce that the new issue of FIU Law Review is available online, featuring last fall's symposium Barnette…
Media Law Prof Blog
Wilson on Brandenburg in an Era of Populism @richardawilson7
Richard Ashby Wilson, University of Connecticut School of Law, is publishing Brandenburg in An Era of Populism: Risk Analysis in the First Amendment in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
D.C. Circuit Upholds D.C.’s Anti-Obstruction Statute
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected the plaintiffs' facial vagueness challenge to D.C.'s anti-obstruction statute. The ruling means that the statute stays on the…
Appellate Advocacy Blog
Obscenities & The Supreme Court
While many people may be swearing on April 15 because they forgot to do their taxes, the Supreme Court will have swearing on its mind for another reason. Iancu v.…
Media Law Prof Blog
Haupt on Sex and the First Amendment Through the Lens of Professional Speech @CEHaupt
Claudia E. Haupt, Northeastern University School of Law; Yale University, Yale Information Society Project, is publishing Sex and the First Amendment Through the Lens of Professional Speech in volume 17…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Tennessee District Court Dismisses Strip Club’s First Amendment Claim
Déjà Vu of Nashville, Inc. is a business engaged “in the presentation of female performance dance entertainment to the consenting adult public.” More prosaically, Déjà Vu operates a strip club. …
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Seventh Circuit Upholds Wisconsin Ordinance Prohibiting Inflatable “Scabby the Rat”
The rats and cats are back. We first reported on this case in 2016, after the Seventh Circuit determined that it might be moot. As it turns out, the case…
Simple Justice
Trump’s Free Speech Executive Order: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Whoever drafted the EO for the president did his best to make it viable. It is the policy of the Federal Government to: (a) encourage institutions to foster environments that…
Religion Clause
Repeal of Ban On Use of Civic Center For Worship Services Moots Injunctive Relief, But Not Damages
In Redeemer Fellowship of Edisto Island v. Town of Edisto Beach,South Carolina, (D SC, March 18, 2019), a South Carolina federal district court held that a church's request for injunctive relief…
PrawfsBlawg
Nunes v. Devin Nunes’ Cow
Main Tuesday, March 19, 2019Nunes v. Devin Nunes' CowI do not have much to say about Nunes v. Twitter, which includes as a named defendant "Devin Nunes' Cow." The lawsuit…