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first amendment
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The Right Coast
Marquette and the First Amendment – WSJ
A political-science professor who says Marquette University violated his employment contract s guarantee of academic freedom will get his day in court. Though a judge for a lower state court…
The Right Coast
Marquette and the First Amendment – WSJ
A political-science professor who says Marquette University violated his employment contract s guarantee of academic freedom will get his day in court. Though a judge for a lower state court…
TechLaw Crossroads
Is SCOTUS About to Disrupt the Legal Profession?
The Janus Issue The Supreme Court is set to consider in late February in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees whether workers can be forced to…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Tenth Circuit Rejects First Amendment Retaliation Claims
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Tenth Circuit ruled last week that a former sheriff and undersheriff enjoyed qualified immunity against claims that they retaliated against employees for exercising…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Prohibition on Driveway Delivery of Unsolicited Materials Survives Intermediate Scrutiny of Sixth Circuit
Earlier this month, the Sixth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction preventing Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (the “City”) from enforcing Ordinance 25/2017 (the “Ordinance”), which would regulate where unsolicited written materials…
Media Law Prof Blog
Wu on Whether the First Amendment Is Obsolete @superwuster
Tim Wu, Columbia University Law School, has published Is the First Amendment Obsolete? as Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-573. Here is the abstract.The First Amendment was a dead…
PrawfsBlawg
Tim Wu on Unconventional “Private” Threats to Freedom of Speech
Main Wednesday, January 17, 2018Tim Wu on Unconventional “Private” Threats to Freedom of SpeechTim Wu has circulated an important and insightful article asking whether the First Amendment is obsolete. I…
PrawfsBlawg
Baseline Hell, Mob Rule, and the First Amendment: Are Gossip, Doxxing, and Other Private Sanctions Exercises of, or Attacks on, Freedom of Speech?
Main Saturday, January 13, 2018Baseline Hell, Mob Rule, and the First Amendment: Are Gossip, Doxxing, and Other Private Sanctions Exercises of, or Attacks on, Freedom of Speech?As (both of) my…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
10th Circuit Rejects First Amendment Challenge by Student Expelled for Social Media Comments after Sexual Misconduct
By Tracy Thomas
Yeasin v. Durham, 10th Cir., Jan. 5, 2018Dr. Tammara Durham, the Vice Provost for Student Affairs at the University of Kansas, expelled Navid Yeasin from the university after finding that…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
SCOTUSblog symposium on NIFLA v. Becerra
This term the U.S. Supreme Court will hear National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra. The case concerns the California Reproductive FACT Act, which requires that Crisis Pregnancy…