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Labor Law Prof Blog
Another Attack on Public Unions: New California Case to Test Public Unions’ Ability to Collect Dues
Thanks to Charlotte Garden (Seattle) for passing on this interesting and under-reported story about a new case just filed in California which has the potential to drastically change the way…
Ohio Appellate Insights
What’s on Their Minds? A Constitutional Challenge to the Picketing-Notice Requirement of the Ohio Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act. Mahoning Education Association of Developmental Disabilities v. State Employment Relations Board, et al.
Update: On October 23, 2013 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analsyis here. On April 24, 2013, the Supreme Court heard…
Media Law Prof Blog
Tobacco Warning Labels and the First Amendment
David Daniel Coyle, Emory University School of Law, has published Smoke and Mirrors: First Amendment Protection of Commercial Speech and the FDA's New Graphic Warning Labels for Tobacco. Here is…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
First Amendment Does Not Protect Hackers’ Identities, NJ Court Holds
The First Amendment does not protect the identities of computer hackers, a New Jersey appellate court held this month. Warren Hospital alleges that two anonymous individuals hacked into its web…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Oral Arguments in USAID v. Alliance for Open Society, the “Prostitution Pledge”
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The Court heard oral arguments today, sans Justice Kagan, in United States Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., involving a First Amendment challenge to a…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Argument Preview: Can Congress Penalize a Pre-SORNA Sex Offender for Failure to Register?
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow in U.S. v. Kebodeaux, a case testing whether Congress can penalize a sex offender for failure to register, when the offender was convicted…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Oral Argument Preview: A Constitutional Challenge to the Picketing-Notice Requirement of the Ohio Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act. Mahoning Education Association of Developmental Disabilities v. State Employment Relations Board, et al.
Update: On October 23, 2013 the Supreme Court of Ohio handed down a merit decision in this case. Read the analsyis here. Read the analysis of the oral argument here.…
Media Law Prof Blog
Fox News Reporter May Go To Jail To Protect Source In Colorado Shooting Suspect Trial
Fox News journalist Jana Winter is waiting to see if her notebook, which contains background information on a story she wrote last summer about Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes, will…
Ohio Appellate Insights
In Sharper Focus. Guest Post on the Issues Raised in Freshwater v. Mount Vernon City School District Board of Education.
On February 27, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio heard the case of Freshwater v. Mount Vernon City School District Board of Education, which involved the firing of an eighth grade…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Corporation as Public Figure
Deven R. Sesai, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, is publishing Speech, Citizenry, and the Market: A Corporate Public Figure Doctrinein volume 98 of the Minnesota Law Review (2013). Here is…