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Sentencing Law and Policy
Voting intrigue in SCOTUS capital case dissent on latest order list
Main November 13, 2017Voting intrigue in SCOTUS capital case dissent on latest order listThe Supreme Court wrapped up its formal pre-Thanksgiving public activities toady with the release of this order…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Grants Certiorari on First Amendment Challenge to California’s Regulation of “Crisis Pregnancy Centers”
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawThe United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra…
The Right Coast
Free speech lawsuit: Professor paying $17,000 for erasing anti-abortion message | The Fresno Bee
A Fresno State professor will pay $17,000 and undergo first amendment training after he erased students anti-abortion chalk messages on campus, according to Alliance Defending Freedom. via www.fresnobee.com
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Requires Disclosure of Identifying Information on Website Rejecting First Amendment Claim
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn its opinion in In Re Grand Jury Subpoena, No. 16-03-217, a panel of the Ninth Circuit rejected an…
PrawfsBlawg
Are The Bangles no longer welcome at Reed College, either?
Main Saturday, November 04, 2017Are The Bangles no longer welcome at Reed College, either?Read the intro. Whatever else is happening, this demonstrates a point that came out in the comments…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The First Amendment and Soliciting Crimes of Migration
Daniel I. Morales blogged on the Take Care blog about an interesting immigration and First Amendment case pending before a panel of the Ninth Circuit. A federal criminal statute makes it a felony…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Using the Captive Audience Doctrine to Redress Street and Cyber-Harassment
By Tracy Thomas
JoAnne Sweeney, Trapped in Public: The Regulation of Street Harassment and Cyber-Harassment Under the Captive Audience Doctrine, 17 Nev. L.J. 651 (2017) In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, public intimidation…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Ninth Circuit Allows San Francisco’s Billboard Ban to Stand
Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld San Francisco’s prohibition on new off-site commercial billboards, rejecting a First Amendment claim to the contrary made by a billboard company. …
Media Law Prof Blog
Gregory P. Magarian, Managed Speech: The Roberts Court’s First Amendment (OUP, 2017) @WashULaw
Gregory P. Magarian, Washington University, St. Louis, has published Managed Speech: The Roberts Court's First Amendment (Oxford University Press). Here is a description of the book's contents from the publisher's…
Media Law Prof Blog
Kendrick on Free Speech as a Special Right @lckendrick
Leslie Kendrick, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Free Speech as a Special Right at 45 Philosophy and Public Affairs 87 (2017). Here is the abstract.Many theorists treat…