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Media Law Prof Blog
Chen and Yeh on How Rights Revolutions Happen: Free Speech and the First Amendment
Daniel L. Chen, University of Toulouse 1, Toulouse School of Economics, Institute for Advanced Studies/Harvard Law School LWP, Harvard Law School, and Susan Yeh, Charles River Associates, have published How…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Court Grants Preliminary Injunction in Trump Immigration Ban Protest Case
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="410"] The Great Hall of the Jeppesen Terminal at Denver International Airport. Source: Denver Post.[/caption] Last week, a federal district judge in Colorado partially granted a motion…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“First, They Came for the Sex Offenders … “
Main March 2, 2017"First, They Came for the Sex Offenders … "The title of this post is the headline of this Slate commentary authored by Perry Grosssman that discusses Packingham…
Media Law Prof Blog
Bhagwat on When Speech Is Not “Speech”
Ashutosh Avinash Bhagwat, University of California, Davis, School of Law, is publishing When Speech is Not 'Speech' in the Ohio State Law Journal. Here is the abstract.First Amendment law has…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Court Hears Oral Argument on Sex Offenders’ First Amendment Right to Access Social Media
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawThe Court heard oral argument in Packingham v. North Carolina in which the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the…
PrawfsBlawg
Qualified Immunity meets advisory opinions
Main Monday, February 27, 2017Qualified Immunity meets advisory opinionsOne of my students flagged the Fifth Circuit decision in Turner v. Driver from two weeks ago. A divided panel held that…
California Employment Law Update
Actors’ Ages to Remain Available Online (At Least for Now)
By Tony Oncidi, Elaine H. Simson
A federal court has granted IMDb’s request for a preliminary injunction to allow the entertainment website to keep actors’ ages in their online profiles – despite the enactment of a…
PrawfsBlawg
Burning your own cross on your own lawn?
Main Wednesday, February 22, 2017Burning your own cross on your own lawn?A couple in Stamford, CT had a racial slur spray-painted on their garage door. Convinced that the police are…
DuetsBlog
McCarthy Institute Trademark Seminar 2017
By Steve Baird®
One of the current challenges in trademark law addressed in Seattle last week at the Amazon Corporate Conference Center, host of the 2017 McCarthy Institute and Microsoft Corporation Symposium, is…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Eleventh Circuit Strikes Florida’s Ban on Doctors’ Questions About Patients’ Guns
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Eleventh Circuit ruled yesterday that Florida's law banning doctors from asking patients about gun ownership violated the First Amendment. The en banc court struck…