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PrawfsBlawg
Facing imminent defeat
Main Monday, February 26, 2018Facing imminent defeatIs it possible to imagine more-certain defeat for a party before argument even begins than for the union (and the continuing vitality of Abood)…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Argument Preview: Election Attire and the First Amendment
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawOn February 28, 2018, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, a…
California Employment Law Update
Dark Day For Hollywood – Law Prohibiting Online Publication Of Actors’ Ages Is Unconstitutional!
By Tony Oncidi
A federal court has struck down as unconstitutional a California law (AB 1687) that prohibits commercial online services from publishing actors' ages without their consent. The law, which the California…
Technology Law Dispatch
The FTC’s black-box determination of information’s sensitivity imperils First Amendment and due-process rights
By Gerard Stegmaier, Wendell Bartnick, Kelley Chittenden
A Washington Legal Foundation legal opinion titled “The FTC’s Black-Box Determination of Information’s Sensitivity Imperils First Amendment and Due-Process Rights” and written by Gerry Stegmaier, Wendell Bartnick, and Kelley Chittenden…
The Right Coast
Supreme Court’s conservatives appear set to strike down union fees on free-speech grounds
Paying union dues and baking a wedding cake may not seem like classic examples of free speech except perhaps at the Supreme Court. This year, the high court is poised…
Legal Profession Blog
God And Columbia
A recent decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitAppellant David Roemer, proceeding pro se, sued the New York Attorney Grievance Committee ("State Committee") as well…
PrawfsBlawg
Universal injunctions at the state level (Updated)
Main Thursday, February 01, 2018Universal injunctions at the state level (Updated)Judge Crabtree of the District of Kansas preliminarily enjoined, as violative of the First Amendment, a Kansas law requiring those…
The Fintech Report
Fintech Week in Review, January 8th – January 19th, 2018
Below is a summary of some of the significant legal and regulatory actions that occurred over the past week. This alert is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all such…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Federal Judge Enjoins Kansas’s Anti-Boycott of Israel Statute
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn his opinion in Koontz v. Watson, United States District Judge Daniel Crabtree enjoined Kansas officials from enforcing Kan.…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Offensive Name Not a Constitutional Reason to Ban Food Truck from Public Lunch Programs, Says Second Circuit
[The following case centered on an ethnic slur and this post therefore includes two references to that slur.] Reaffirming the First Amendment’s virtual prohibition on viewpoint discrimination, the Second Circuit…