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DuetsBlog
Federal Trademark Registration, the First Amendment, and Freedom of Speech: Part I
By Steve Baird®
Looking forward to sharing the podium with Joel MacMull of the Archer firm (counsel for Simon Tam, where our friend Ron Coleman is a partner) to discuss "Trademark Registration and…
Drug & Device Law
PhRMA Comment on the FDA’s Proposed Off-label Rule: The Rule of Law is the Best Medicine
The FDA cannot get out of its own way on the issue of off-label communications. Its power to punish off-label promotion comes from an odd regulatory two-step, whereby off-label promotions…
The Right Coast
The First Amendment and what it means for free speech online
The internet as we know it is nearly 30 years old. Sure, the web is a bit more complicated and more intricately connected than it was 30 years ago, but…
The Right Coast
The Left’s Next Step: Redefining ‘Hate Speech’ as Violence | Frontpage Mag
An article in the Sunday Review section of the July 16 New York Times posed a question which, once upon a more innocent time, would have been considered nonsensical: When…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
District Judge Finds Utah’s “Ag-Gag” Law Violates the First Amendment
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law In a careful and well-reasoned opinion in Animal Defense Fund v. Herbert, United States District Judge for Utah, Judge…
SDNY Blog
Complaint: @realDonaldTrump Blocking Twitter Users Violates First Amendment
A complaint filed today alleges that President Trump and others violated the First Amendment when they blocked Twitter users who wrote tweets critical of the president. The plaintiffs claim that…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Billboard Company’s Challenge to Michigan Sign Code Survives Motion to Dismiss
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="420"] One of International Outdoor's billboards in the Detroit area. Source: International Outdoor.[/caption] Late last month, a federal court in Michigan granted in part and denied in…
Media Law Prof Blog
ABA Forum on Communications Law Presents Its Tenth Annual First Amendment and Media Law Diversity Moot Court Competition @ABAesq
From the mailbox:As in previous years, the ABA Forum on Communications Law is presenting its First Amendment and Media Law Diversity Moot Court Competition. The deadline to apply is September…
PrawfsBlawg
Citizen video and other § 1983 puzzles
Main Sunday, July 09, 2017Citizen video and other § 1983 puzzlesIn Fields v. City of Philadelphia, the Third Circuit joined the parade of courts of appeals recognizing a First Amendment…
Food Safety News
Utah’s ‘ag-gag’ law is second to be found unconstitutional
By Dan Flynn
Utah’s law criminalizing “both lying to get into an agricultural operation and filming once inside” violates the First Amendment and has been declared unconstitutional by Federal Judge Robert J. Shelby.…