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first amendment
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Media Law Prof Blog
Lakier on Enforcing the First Amendment in an Era of Jawboning
Genevieve Lakier, University of Chicago Law School, is publishing Enforcing the First Amendment in an Era of Jawboning in the University of Chicago Law Review. Here is the abstract.First Amendment…
PrawfsBlawg
Cross-ideological benefits
Main Monday, June 16, 2025Cross-ideological benefitsSCOTUS granted cert in First Choice Women's Resource Ctrs. v. Platkin to resolve "'[w]hether, when the subject of a state investigatory demand has established a…
Appellate Law Blog
Personal vs Public Accounts: Critical Considerations for Elected Officials When Utilizing Social Media
By Tressler LLP
A recent 9th Circuit decision has important implications for how elected officials utilize social media. In Garnier v. O’Connor-Ratcliff, two candidates running for trustee positions on a local school board…
Simple Justice
Tuesday Talk*: Should Trump Be Allowed To Punish The AP?
One of the really good things about the Trump administration is that it rarely leaves anyone in doubt about why it does things. When Karoline Leavitt (no, I will not…
Gulf Coast Business Law Blog
SCOTUS Holds That Excluding Catholic Charities From Religious Unemployment Tax Exemption Violates First Amendment
By Leon H. Rittenberg III, Caroline Lafourcade, Kevin Naccari, Jr.
On June 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Wisconsin violated the First Amendment of the United States Constitution by denying a Catholic social ministry group the same…
@theBar
Chicago Talks: The TikTok Ban & The First Amendment
By The Chicago Bar Association
In a new episode of Chicago Talks, CBATV’s Michael Alkaraki, a partner at Leahy Hoste Alkaraki, and Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, a Constitutional Law Scholar at Dean at University of California…
Religion Clause
Jury Must Decide Reason for Evangelists’ Exclusion from Pride Event
In Cocchini v. City of Franklin, Tennessee, (MD TN, June 3, 2025), in an opinion covering three consolidated cases, a Tennessee federal district court held that because disputed questions of fact…
Municipal Minute
School Board Member’s Blocking of Users on Social Media Violated First Amendment
Last March, we reported on two cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court addressing challenges to government officials' deletion of comments and blocking of users from their personal social media…
Legal Profession Blog
A Speaking Objection
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated and remanded the dismissal of an action brought on behalf of immigration judgesThe National Association of Immigration Judges brought…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Judge Grants Permanent Injunction for Big Law Firm
Judge Richard J. Leon, of the D.C. District Court granted a permanent injunction agsinst Pres. Trump's Executive Order which targeted the big law firm, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.…