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Health Law Prof Blog
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Stephanie M. Greene, After Caronia: First Amendment Concerns in Off-Label Promotion, 51 San Diego L. Rev. (Forthcoming 2014).Ayesha Ahmad, Do Motives Matter in Male Circumcision? ‘Conscientious Objection’ Against the Circumcision…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
First Amendment Issues with New York Bill Prohibiting University Support of Entities that Support Boycotts of Other Universities or Nations
New York Senate Bill 6438-2013 passed today and now moves to the Assembly, taking its First Amendment problems with it.Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of…
Media Law Prof Blog
Looking At Courts and Social Movements in “New York Times v. Sullivan”
Paul Horwitz, University of Alabama School of Law, is publishing Institutional Actors in New York Times v. Sullivan in the Georgia Law Review (forthcoming). Here is the abstract.This Article was…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
The Supreme Court’s Heavy First Amendment Docket this Term
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawLast Term, the United States Supreme Court's First Amendment docket was decidedly light. This Term, there are many First…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Criminalizing Revenge Porn
The title of this post comes from this fascinating paper by Professors Danielle Citron and Mary Anne Franks, the abstract of which states: The non-consensual publication of non-newsworthy sexually graphic…
M & A Law Prof Blog
DE arbitration seeks SCOTUS review
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
So, last night Delaware filed a cert petition with the US Supreme Court asking the court to overturn the Third Circuit's ruling with respect to Delaware Chancery arbitration program. I've…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
SCOTUSblog’s Round-Up on Massachusetts Buffer Zone Case
SCOTUSblog: Thursday Round-Up, by Amy Howe:[Wednesday] the Court heard oral arguments first in McCullen v. Coakley, the challenge to a Massachusetts law that creates a thirty-five-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Federal District Court Declares North Carolina Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Law Unconstitutional
JURIST: Federal judge rules North Carolina abortion ultrasound law is unconstitutional, by Bradley McAllister:A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina[official website] on Friday ruled [opinion, PDF] that…
Labor Law Prof Blog
U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Lane Public Employee Free Speech Case
Thanks to Ross Runkel at RossRunkel.com for bringing to my attention that the U.S. Supreme Court this past Friday accepted cert. in an interesting public employee free speech case: Lane…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Court Takes on Fair Share Union Dues (Again)
Steven D. Schwinn John Marshall Law SchoolThe Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in Harris v. Quinn, the case testing whether a state law requiring non-union homecare personal assistants…