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Appellate Advocacy Blog
Regulation Without Rules: How Modern Institutions Punish Speech While Evading Appellate Review
Public-employee speech doctrine appears, on paper, to be well settled. Courts recite familiar tests, invoke settled standards, and reaffirm bedrock First Amendment principles. The rules are known. The frameworks are…
Paul W. Mollica Federal Courts Blog
En Banc Eighth Circuit Holds 6-5 That Being Exposed to a Single DEI Slide “Chilled” Their First Amendment Rights and Thus Conferred Standing to Sue
In Henderson v. Springfield R-12 Sch. Dist., No. 23-1374 (8th Cir. Dec. 30, 2025) (en banc), the Eighth Circuit holds that it was enough for a public employee to establish…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
Texas Federal Court Enjoins Texas App Store Accountability Act on free speech grounds
By Odia Kagan
Texas App Store Accountability Act, SB 2420, was set to go into effect on January 1, 2026, was enjoined by the US District Court for the Western District of Texas,…
Privacy + Cyber + AI
Federal District Court Grants Preliminary Injunction of Texas App Store Accountability Act
By Shelby Dolen
Key point: Set to take effect on January 1, 2026, court blocks the Texas App Store Accountability Act on constitutional grounds. A Texas federal district court granted a preliminary injunction…
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Conservative student group loses First Amendment case against SUNY Buffalo
By secondcircuitcivilrightsblogsecondcircuitcivilrig
The University at Buffalo adopted a plan after a controversial organization spoke on campus, the Young Americans for Freedom. The campus YAF chapter was part of a nationwide organization. The…
Religion Clause
6th Circuit: Michigan’s Ban on Conversion Therapy for Minors Violates 1st Amendment
In Catholic Charities of Jackson, Lenawee, and Hillsdale Counties v. Whitmer, (6th Cir., Dec. 17, 2025), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals held that Michigan's ban on licensed therapists engaging…
Agricultural Law & Rural Practice | Solo Small Firm & General Practice Section
U.S. District Court: First Amendment Doesn't Protect "RD RRAGE"
By Jay D. Jerde
Dec. 16, 2025 – A car enthusiast who likes vanity plates to express his opinions recently lost his First Amendment claim on summary judgment before the U.S. District Court for…
WisBar Court Review
U.S. District Court: First Amendment Doesn’t Protect ‘RD RRAGE’
By Jay D. Jerde
Dec. 16, 2025 – A car enthusiast who likes vanity plates to express his opinions recently lost his First Amendment claim on summary judgment before the U.S. District Court for…
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
COVID Jawboning Lawsuit Dismissed (For Now)–Dressen v. Flaherty
By Eric Goldman
Generated by ChatGPT Dec. 2025 This is a COVID-related jawboning case: Plaintiffs allege that Defendants violated their constitutional rights by pressuring social media companies to ban or limit their social…
Media and Communications Policy
Why Innovation Needs the First Amendment
Our American democracy and our freedoms have long been models for others. For some 250 years, our ability to argue, debate, clash, and ultimately come together has not been a…