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Media Law Prof Blog
Net Neutrality and the First Amendment
Adam Lamparello, Indiana Tech Law School, has published The Internet is the New Marketplace of Ideas: Why Riley v. California Supports Net Neutrality. Here is the abstract.Technology has ushered civil…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
‘Revenge Porn,’ State Law, and Free Speech
The title of this post comes from this recent paper from Paul J. Jenkins arguing that criminal liability can be imposed for revenge porn so as not to violate the…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Arizona asks federal judge to dismiss ACLU claim that state’s revenge porn law violates First Amendment
The Arizona Capitol Times's Howard Fischer reports: Assistant Attorney General David Weinzweig is arguing there is no legal basis for the lawsuit. He said the state is looking at a…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Did Houston mayor violate First Amendment rights of city pastors?
The Washington Times reports on the outcry from conservative religious leaders over Houston mayor Annise Parker's issuance of subpoenas for the communications of five Houston pastors. The subpoenas come as part…
Media Law Prof Blog
The First Amendment and Frozen Categories
Steven Shiffrin, Cornell Law School, is publishing The Dark Side of the First Amendment in volume 61 of the UCLA Law Review (2014). Here is the abstract.Each year, the UCLA…
Media Law Prof Blog
Leakers, Leakees, and the First Amendment
John D. Moore, Brooklyn Law School, has published In the Same Boat: Leaks, the Press, and the First Amendment at 18 Holy Cross journal of Law and Public Policy 137…
IP Intelligence
All Native Advertising is Not Equal: Why that Matters Under the First Amendment and Why it Should Matter to the FTC – Part IV
By Fernando A. Bohorquez, Jr., Alan M. Pate
In this five part series, originally published in the Summer 2014 edition of the Media Law Resource Center Bulletin,[1] we take an in-depth look at the native advertising phenomenon and…
Media Law Prof Blog
Compelled Commercial Speech
Robert Post, Yale Law School, is publishing Compelled Commercial Speech in the West Virginia Law Review. Here is the abstract.This paper is the text of the fourth annual C. Edwin…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“The Invention of Low-Value Speech”
The title of this post comes from this recent paper by Professor Genevieve Lakier, the abstract of which states: It is widely accepted today that the First Amendment does not…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
SCOTUS’s First Amendment NIMBYism
Yesterday, The NYTimes's Adam Liptak reviewed SCOTUS's supreme hypocrisy on the First Amendment. Liptak observes that SCOTUS has upheld the right of lunatics to protest military funerals and the rights…