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Food Safety News
An 8th Circuit strategy is behind Iowa’s ‘ag-gag’ 2.0
By Dan Flynn
Analysis Federal judges so far haven't been willing to share any of their enviable security blanket with animal agriculture. But that might change if a strategy out of Iowa is…
Media Law Prof Blog
Lidsky on “Whither the Fourth Estate?” @lidskylidsky
Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, University of Missouri School of Law, has published Symposium: Truth, Trust and the First Amendment in the Digital Age, Foreword: Whither the Fourth Estate? at 83 Missouri…
Federal Government Civil Litigation
Second Circuit Judges Spar Over RFRA Private Right of Action
Second Circuit Judges recently traded strong language in opinions accompanying the denial of a petition for en banc review in Tanvir v. Tanzin. In Tanvir, Plaintiffs alleged that, in retaliation…
Southwest Florida Business and IP Blog
Airing of the Grievances: 11th Circuit Declines to Extend First Amendment Protection to Employee’s Work Complaint
The First Amendment is commonly understood as protecting the right to free speech. But the First Amendment does not impact the ability of private citizens and organizations to punish or…
Government and Public Policy
This 12-year-old understands the First Amendment
By Judge Tom
How many of you, when confronted by a police officer, would talk back or question the officer? How many 12-year-old kids know enough about the First Amendment to stand up…
Religion Clause
Supreme Court Will Hear Oral Arguments Today In Bladensburg Cross Case
This morning the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in American Legion v. American Humanist Association. In the case, the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeal, in a 2-1 decision,…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Hears Oral Argument in Public Access Television and State Action Case
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawThe Court heard oral arguments in Manhattan Community Access Corporation v. Halleck, presenting the question of when (if ever)…
PrawfsBlawg
Thomas calls for reconsideration of NYT v. Sullivan
Main Tuesday, February 19, 2019Thomas calls for reconsideration of NYT v. SullivanIn a solo opinion concurring in denial of cert in a defamation action brought by one of the women…
Drug & Device Law
First Amendment Musings About Compelled Speech
By Bexis
Our recent post about the First Amendment decision in American Beverage Ass’n v. City & County of San Francisco, ___ F.3d ___, 2019 WL 387114 (9th Cir. Jan. 31, 2019)…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Federal district judge finds Alabama sex offender license plate and internet provisions violate First Amendment
Thanks to this post by Jacob Sullum at Reason, I see some notable constitutional reasoning has brought down two extreme sex offender provisions in Alabama law. The full title of…