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Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Abrams’s unsatisfying WSJ column on the ‘most indefensible First Amendment ruling’ this century
On January 15, SCOTUS will hear oral argument in McCullen v. Coakley--the challenge to Massachusetts' law prohibiting anti-abortion protesters from coming within 35 feet of an abortion clinic. The case calls…
Inside Global Tech
Courts Diverge on the Tests for Anonymous Online Speech
For more than a decade, a New Jersey appellate court’s opinion guided courts nationwide as they determined whether to enforce subpoenas for the identities of anonymous online speakers. But in…
Communications, Media & Entertainment
Courts Diverge on the Tests for Anonymous Online Speech
For more than a decade, a New Jersey appellate court’s opinion guided courts nationwide as they determined whether to enforce subpoenas for the identities of anonymous online speakers. But in…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Has First Amendment protection for student expression gone too far?
In Intellectual Seriousness and the First Amendment's Protection of Free Speech for Student, Professor Allen Rostron argues that First Amendment protection for student expression ought to be limited to that…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Out of the Furnace? And Into the First Amendment
Can a movie be tortious consistent with the First Amendment? That's the question raised by the complaint in DeGroat v. Cooper filed this week in federal court concerning the movie…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
State Action in the News (Again) . . . Or “Duck Dynasty”
In case you never heard of Duck Dynasty, here's the Wikipedia scoop:Duck Dynasty is an American reality television series on A&E. It shows the lives of the Robertson family, who…
Media Law Prof Blog
The First Amendment and Matters of Public Concern
Mark Strasser, Capital University Law School, has published What's It to You: The First Amendment and Matters of Public Concern at 77 Missouri Law Review 1083 (2012). Here is the…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Some Local Color About Protesting in Cleveland’s Public Square
I recently did a post analyzing the oral argument in the case of City of Cleveland v. Erin McCardle and Leatrice Tolls, 13-0096, in which two Occupy protestors are challenging…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
New York’s Highest Court: Reporters’ Privilege to Protect Anonymous Sources
In its opinion in In the Matter of James Holmes v. Jana Winter, the New York Court of Appeals (NY's highest court) today concluded that it would violate New York's…
Education Law Prof Blog
Seventh Circuit Upholds Firing of School Counselor Who Wrote Relationship Advice Book Titled “It’s Her Fault”
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the dismissal of a tenured school guidance counselor's lawsuit who was fired after writing a sexually explicit book entitled It's Her Fault.…