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Media Law Prof Blog
Third Circuit Rules Pennsylvania Statute Does Not Infringe Media’s FA Right To Gather News
The Third Circuit has affird a lower court's ruling that a Pennsylvania state law prohibiting the media from entering a polling place to "gather news" does not infringe on the…
The Faculty Lounge
New Jersey Town Proposes Flag Ban
The New Jersey town of West New York is contemplating a ban on the exhibition of flags, banners, and pennants. News story here. Someone needs to inform the town legislators…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Does four years seem just and effective as federal sentence for high-profile obscenity convictions?
Main January 17, 2013Does four years seem just and effective as federal sentence for high-profile obscenity convictions? The question in the title of this post is prompted by this Los…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Prostitution Pledge Going to the Supreme Court
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The United States Supreme Court today granted certiorari in United States Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., Pathfinder International, Global Health Council, InterAction.The case involves a…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Daily Read: Ron Collins on Floyd Abrams on the First Amendment
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Ron Collins' new book, Nuanced Absolutism: Floyd Abrams and the First Amendment centers lawyering in the development of doctrine and theoretical perspectives of constitutional law. Abrams (pictured above) is certainly…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
First Circuit Rejects First Amendment Challenge to Clinic Buffer Zone
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In its opinion in McCullenv. Coakley, the First Circuit rejected a First Amendment challenge to a Massachusetts statute creatinga fixed thirty-five-foot buffer zone around the entrances, exits, and drivewaysof abortion clinics. …
Socially Aware Blog
Facebook ’em, Danno: Federal Court May Decide Whether Citizens Have First Amendment Right to Use Social Media to Publicly Criticize the Hawaii 5-0
On top of a presidential election, protests over Instagram’s terms of use, and the invention of gloves that can translate sign language, 2012 also brought to light interesting constitutional issues…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Delaware arbitration update
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The Delaware Coalition for Open Government has filed its brief in the appeal before the Third Circuit. (DELCOG-Appellee's Brief). They make two arguments in response to Delaware's appeal, first:Delaware’s inability…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Fisk & Chemerinsky on Political Speech and Association Rights after Knox v. SEIU Local 1000
Catherine Fisk and Erwin Chemerinsky have posted on SSRN adraft of their article, forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review. The article compares the Court’s treatment ofunion objectors to its treatment…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Daily Read: William Ford on the Law and Science of Violent Video Games
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The national conversation on violence has shifted since last week to include not only discussions of the Second Amendment, the role of conlaw scholars, appropriate quotations, and arming school teachers,…