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Constitutional Law Prof Blog
D.C. Circuit Tosses Antitrust, First Amendment Claims of Third Party Presidential Candidates
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe D.C. Circuit ruled yesterday that Libertarian and Green Party candidates in the 2012 presidential election lacked standing to challenge their exclusion from presidential…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Court Grants Motion for Preliminary Injunction in California Sign Code Case
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="388"] One of the signs in question in the Baldwin Park litigation. Source: The Legal Lens.[/caption] Last month, a federal district court in California ruled that the…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
District Judge Dismisses Sarah Palin’s Defamation Complaint Against the Ne York Times
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law In his opinion in Palin v. The New York Times, Senior United States District Judge Jed Rakoff dismissed Sarah Palin's…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Second Circuit Affirms District Court Injunction Against Oyster Bay Solicitation Ordinance
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="600"] Day laborers in Oyster Bay. Source: New York Times.[/caption] On Tuesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Town of Oyster Bay, New York’s…
Media Law Prof Blog
Campbell on Natural Rights and the First Amendment
Jud Campbell, University of Richmond School of Law, is publishing Natural Rights and the First Amendment in the Yale Law Journal (forthcoming). Here is the abstract.The Supreme Court often claims…
Alcoholic Beverages Law
Ninth Circuit Rejects Retail Digital Network’s Challenge to the Constitutionality of California Tied House Law
This post was co-authored by Stoel Rives summer associate Chad Punch. Earlier this summer, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals revisited an issue that it had examined thirty years prior: whether…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Third Circuit Gives TSA Agent Free Pass for First Amendment Violation
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Third Circuit ruled yesterday that a plaintiff couldn't bring a First Amendment claim against a TSA officer after the officer caused the plaintiff…
Media Law Prof Blog
Hasen on Cheap Speech and What It Has Done To American Democracy @UCILaw
Richard L. Hasen, University of California, Irvine, School of Law, is publishing Cheap Speech and What It Has Done (to American Democracy) in the First Amendment Law Review. Here is…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Upholds San Francisco Sign Ordinance Against First Amendment Challenge
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law In its opinion in Contest Promotions v. City and County of San Francisco, a panel of the Ninth Circuit…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Do Criminal Defendants Have Web Rights?”
Main August 17, 2017"Do Criminal Defendants Have Web Rights?"The title of this post is the headline of this new piece at The Crime Report authored by James Trusty. The piece…