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Constitutional Law Prof Blog
First Amendment Exam Question on Ferguson Protest Prompts Controversy
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawWriting exam questions that engage with current controversies can themselves cause controversy.Or that seems to be what happened at…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Delaware Arbitration Makes a Comeback
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
News from Delaware is that Delaware's Chancery arbitration procedure is making a comeback, but this time without the Chancery bit. According to DelawareOnline, Chief Justice Strine said: [T]he new arbitration program…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Supreme Court to Hear First Amendment Challenge to Specialty License Plate Denial
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawThe United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Walker v. Texas Sons of Confederate Veterans involving a First…
DuetsBlog
Angry Monkey See, Angry Monkey Sue
By Tim Sitzmann
Video games have come a long way since I was a kid. I grew up with a pixelated plumber jumping on on turtles with frozen facial expression. Sometimes it is…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Daily Read: Weatherby on First Amendment Rights of Trans* Youth
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawNovember 20, as President Obama acknowledged again this year, is "Transgender Day of Remembrance." While the commemoration often focuses…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Ninth Circuit upholds injunction, on First Amendment grounds, blocking California law requiring sex offenders to report report online activities
Main November 18, 2014Ninth Circuit upholds injunction, on First Amendment grounds, blocking California law requiring sex offenders to report report online activitiesAs reported in this Bloomberg story, "California can’t enforce…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“Compelled Commercial Speech”
The title of this post comes from this recent paper by Professor Robert Post, the abstract of which states: This paper is the text of the fourth annual C. Edwin Baker Lecture…
Media Law Prof Blog
Re-Evaluating New York Times v. Sullivan
Ronald A. Cass, Center for the Rule of Law, Cass & Associates, PC; Boston University School of Law, is publishing Weighing Constitutional Anchors: New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“Tinkering with Alito’s Code to Morse’s Limits: Why Alito’s Concurrence is Crucial to Preserving Tinker and Students’ Right to Free Speech”
The title of this post comes from this paper arguing that student free speech rights under the First Amendment have been receiving less protection than the standards articulated in Tinker…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Federal Circuit Rejects First Amendment Challenge to Attorney “Advertising” Discipline
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn a per curiam Order of the Federal Circuit in In re Reines, the court disciplined an attorney for…