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Inside Global Tech
Courts Recognize First Amendment Right to Social Media Use
A North Carolina appellate court recently held that a statewide ban on sex offenders’ access to social media violates the First Amendment. The opinion is the latest in a string…
Communications, Media & Entertainment
Courts Recognize First Amendment Right to Social Media Use
A North Carolina appellate court recently held that a statewide ban on sex offenders’ access to social media violates the First Amendment. The opinion is the latest in a string…
Labor Law Prof Blog
9th Circuit: Garcetti Does Not Apply to Public University Employee’s Teaching and Academic Writing
For those of you like me that follow the development of First Amendment law in the public employee space, times have recently been depressing for employee advocates in this post-Garcetti…
Education Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Upholds Student’s Expulsion for Off-Campus Speech
The9th Circuit affirmed a summary judgment ruling last week against a Nevada high school student who was expelled for off-campus speech. Landon Wynar, thena high school sophomore, was expelled for…
Media Law Prof Blog
Ick! Don’t Show Us That Stuff!
Ellen P. Goodman, Rutgers University, School of Law (Camden), is publishing Visual Gut Punch: Persuasion, Emotion, and the Constitutional Meaning of Graphic Disclosure in volume 99 of the Cornell Law Review (2014). Here…
Media Law Prof Blog
Balancing Speech and Copyright
Margot E. Kaminski, Yale University Law School & Yale Information Society Project, has published Copyright Crime and Punishment: The First Amendment's Proportionality Problemin volume 73 of the Maryland Law Review (2013).…
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Advocacy Groups Say FTC is at Odds with the First Amendment
Two nonprofits, the Alliance for Natural Health - USA, and TechFreedom, released a report last week alleging that the Federal Trade Commission broke free speech laws when in January 2013,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“North Carolina appeals court strikes social media ban for sex offenders”
Main August 20, 2013"North Carolina appeals court strikes social media ban for sex offenders"The title of this post is the headline of this local press report on a notable intermediate…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Revised Post (revised yet again) upon request
Main August 20, 2013Revised Post (revised yet again) upon request Regular readers know all about the controversy and pending en-banc litigation engendered by a decision rendered three months ago by…
The Faculty Lounge
Audience Participation
Greetings, and thanks to Al and everyone here at the Faculty Lounge for hosting me. As a longtime reader and lurker, it's exciting to finally "de-lurk" and more actively join…