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Alabama Employment Law Report
April 1 Is Over, Or Is It? There Are Fools Everywhere
April 1 is over. It was my birthday. It was also April Fools' Day. The problem is, there are fools everywhere in the workplace, and it is a daily problem.…
Media Law Prof Blog
A New Book On Famous Press Cases From a First Amendment Lawyer
James C. Goodale, former Chief Counsel and Vice Chairman at the New York Times, has published Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Trials…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
U.S. Court Finds National Security Letter Nondisclosure Provisions Unconstitutional
On March 14, 2013, a federal district court in California granted a motion to prohibit the government from issuing National Security Letters pursuant to the statutory provision that prohibits recipients…
Food, Drug & Agriculture
Ninth Circuit Off-Label Marketing Decision Suggests More Prosecutions Will Be Coming
The Ninth Circuit has reopened a door for off-label marketing prosecutions, and it is important to review your compliance and risk management programs in light of this recent decision. Last…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Update on the Jacket in the United States Supreme Court Building
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
No, not John Paul Cohen's jacket about the draft, central to the 1971 case of Cohen v. California.This jacket was worn a little over a year ago and prompted an…
The Faculty Lounge
An interesting paper from Jack Balkin
Has been posted on Balkinization and on SSRN The First Amendment is an Information Policy. This paper sounds like it could have interesting implications for an issue which I intend…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Oral Argument Preview: Teacher Termination: First Amendment Violation or Inappropriate Injection of Christian Beliefs into Science Class? Freshwater v. Mount Vernon City School District Board of Education.
Read the analysis of the oral argument here. And, for additional information on the issues raised in this case, read this In Sharper Focus Guest Post. On February 27, 2013, the…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Court to Test Individual Campaign Contribution Limits
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
The Supreme Court today said it would take up McCutcheon v. FEC, a case testing federal biennial limits on contributions to candidates, PACs, parties, and committees. (The jurisdictional statement is here.) While the case directly…
The Faculty Lounge
Free speech and off-label use marketing
Makers of pharmaceutical drugs got a fairly significant victory in their quest to have the FDA's regulation of off-label use marketing ruled unconstitutional. In United State v. Caronia the 2nd…
CommLawBlog
Ain’t No Sunshine: Introducing “The Federal Communications Commission Collaboration Act of 2013”
By FHH Law
The Sunshine Act gives us all access to the meetings of certain executive branch agencies, much as the FOIA give us access to those agencies' written records. Maybe not for…