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Media Law Prof Blog
Balkin on The First Amendment in the Second Gilded Age @jackbalkin
Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School, is publishing The First Amendment in the Second Gilded Age in the Buffalo Law Review, 2019 (Forthcoming). Here is the abstract.How do we pay…
Media Law Prof Blog
West on Presidential Attacks on the Press @sonjarwest @UGASchoolofLaw
Sonja West, University of Georgia School of Law, is publishing Presidential Attacks on the Press in the Missouri Law Review. Here is the abstract.President Donald Trump’s habit of hurling invectives…
Media Law Prof Blog
Lakier on Imagining an Antisubordinating First Amendment @UChicagoLaw
Genevieve, Lakier, University Lakier, University of Chicago Law School, is publishing Imagining an Antisubordinating First Amendment in volume 119 of the Columbia Law Review (2018). Here is the abstract.Over the…
PrawfsBlawg
Misapplying pleading
Main Friday, October 19, 2018Misapplying pleadingAttorney David Lurie criticizes the lawsuit by former DNC employees and Democratic donors against the Trump Campaign for its role in disseminating the Wikileaks documents.…
PrawfsBlawg
SLAPP dismissal of Stormy Daniels’ defamation suit
Main Wednesday, October 17, 2018SLAPP dismissal of Stormy Daniels' defamation suitJudge Otero of the Central District of California dismissed Stormy Daniel's defamation action against President Trump under the Texas anti-SLAPP…
Media Law Prof Blog
Pen American Center Files Lawsuit Against Trump For Violation of First Amendment Protections
PENAmerica is suing Donald Trump over certain acts that he has taken as President and comments that he has made while in office that PEN alleges that have "violated the…
Arbitration Matters
Quick Hits – Back pay but no reinstatement, Arbitrator’s reliance on external law, and Social media, law enforcement officers and the First Amendment
Arbitrator awarded back pay but no reinstatement - rejects request to reconsider decisionAs noted in an earlier post, Facebook postings grounds for dismissal of police officer, but delay in City's response…
Marks, Works, and Secrets
Ninth Circuit Extends Tam 1st Amendment Protections to Advertising
By Ira S. Sacks, Rachel B. Rudensky
The Ninth Circuit extended the First Amendment protections enunciated by the Supreme Court in Matal v. Tam, 137 S.Ct. 1744 (2017)[1] to advertising in American Freedom Defense Initiative, et al.…
PrawfsBlawg
Yes, please sue
Main Monday, October 08, 2018Yes, please sueWhere to begin with this suggestion that Justice Kavanaugh should sue Christine Ford and the Washington Post for $ 20 million each and that…
Drug & Device Law
Can We Play, Too?
By Bexis
Not too long ago we read a non-drug/device decision, Hale v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., 2018 WL 3241971 (S.D. Ill. July 3, 2018), which left us shaking our…