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Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Oral Argument Preview: Employee Speech at the Supreme Court and the Amicus Brief of Law Professors
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawAs we explained when certiorari was granted in Lane v. Franks, the case involves a public employee's First Amendment…
Antitrust Alert
Patent Enforcement Protected by First Amendment?
After receiving a draft complaint and a stipulated order from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banning its allegedly deceptive letters to infringers of its scanning technology, MPHJ Technology Investments LLC…
Media Law Prof Blog
Digital Medicine and Speech
Adam Candeub, Michigan State University College of Law, is publishing Digital Medicine, the FDA, and the First Amendment in the Georgia Law Review. Here is the abstract.Digital medicine will transform…
Technology and AI
Calling Someone “F***ing crazy” on Twitter? That’s covered under the First Amendment
In what could be the most bizarre civil suit concerning social media, a district court decided that name-calling on Twitter is covered under the First Amendment. A Massachusetts court dismissed…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Susan B. Anthony List’s Right to Lie
By Tracy Thomas
Next week the US Supreme Court hears argument in Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus. The case involves an election campaign attack ad by the anti-abortion group, Susan B. Anthony List,…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Bauries on Academic Freedom and on Supreme Court Review
Scott Bauries (Kentucky) has posted two new papers on TWEN. the first is Individual Academic Freedom: An Ordinary Concern of the First Amendment, which Scott says he views as Part I of…
Other
First Amendment Takes a Hit: Newspaper Forced to Unveil Online Commenters’ Identities
Online anonymity received a major blow as New Orleans' The Times-Picayune handed over information on site commentators following a court order. [caption id="attachment_520696" align="alignright" width="380"] Credit: Martin Gommel[/caption] Days after the Fifth Circuit…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Does an imprisoned white supremacist have a right to an anti-Kosher diet?
Main April 7, 2014Does an imprisoned white supremacist have a right to an anti-Kosher diet?The question in the title of this post is prompted by this local article from Illinois…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Sunday Dress: Kort on Revitalizing Tinker
In her article "An Imminent Substantial Disruption: Towards a Uniform Standard for Balancing the Rights of Students to Speak and the Rights of Administrators to Discipline" (forthcoming in Dartmouth Law…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Why McCutcheon Could Be Bad for the GOP
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolPeter Beinart argues over at The Atlantic that the Court's ruling this week in McCutcheon--that aggregate limits on campaign contributions violate the First Amendment--could haunt…