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Constitutional Law Prof Blog
AP CEO Gary Pruitt Explains Why Justice Probe Violates First Amendment
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Associated Press CEO (and former First Amendment lawyer for McClatchy newspapers) Gary Pruitt gave his first television interview today to Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation and blasted the Justice…
Education Law Prof Blog
New sexual harassment standards for college campuses draws First Amendment concerns
As part of resolving Title IX complaints against theUniversity of Montana for its handling of sexual assault reports involving its student-athletes, the federal government announcednew definitions of sexual harassment designed…
Data Law Insights
DOJ Ignites Privacy and 1st Amendment Concerns over Surreptitious Seizure of AP Phone Records
No doubt by now, anyone with a TV, newspaper, or internet connection likely is familiar with the U.S. Department of Justice’s May 10th revelation that it had seized phone records…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Daily Read: First Amendment Institutions by Paul Horwitz
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ConLawProf Paul Horwitz's new book, First Amendment Institutions seeks to develop the conversation about reorienting First Amendment doctrine towards institutionalism. Most ConLawProfs would agree that First Amendment doctrine suffers from…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Abortion Protest Case Pits Free Speech Rights Against Protection of Children
The New York Times: In Abortion Protests, Which to Protect, Children or Speech?, by Adam Liptak:Kenneth T. Scott opposes abortion, and he says so in public. Sometimes he holds up large…
Education Law Prof Blog
Texas judge rules that showing religious banners during school sporting events does not violate the Establishment Clause
For every game last season at Kountze High School in Texas, cheerleaders made spirit banners with bible verses on them for football players to run through to the field. The…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Caroline Corbin on Compelled Disclosures
Caroline Mala Corbin (Univ. of Miami Law School) has posted Compelled Disclosures on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Courts have faced a wave of compelled disclosure cases recently. By government mandate,…
The Trade Secret Litigator
Episode 7 of the Fairly Competing Podcast: Trade Secrets, Whistleblowers and The First Amendment
By John Marsh
Episode 7 of the Fairly Competing Podcast: Trade Secrets, Whistleblowers and The First Amendment
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
Do Police Officers Have Legal Malpractice Rights?
The short answer to the question is yes, they do; the longer answer to the question is that their rights to first amendment protection of speech is very limited, and…
Alabama Employment Law Report
DC Circuit Strikes Down NLRB Poster Requirement
Last month, I posted that a District Court Judge in South Carolina found the NLRB's new poster requirement to be unlawful, but did not ban the NLRB from requiring that it be…