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Media Law Prof Blog
NYT Reports On Fox v. FCC Ruling
The New York Times reports on the Supreme Court's Fox v. FCC ruling, issued June 21. Reactions to the ruling from the NYT here, Scotusblog here.
IP Intelligence
Supreme Court Invalidates FCC Indecency Rulings, Dodges Major First Amendment Question
The Supreme Court today struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s findings of liability against two broadcasters that aired “fleeting” profanity and nudity on primetime television. But in invalidating the sanctions…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Court Takes on Union Assessment Rules in Knox
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
The usual First Amendment rule for public-sector union fee assessments for non-members is that unions have to provide notice and an opportunity to opt out of those portions of the…
Media Law Prof Blog
Technology and the First Amendment
Christopher S. Yoo, University of Pennsylvania Law School & University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science, has published Technologies of Control…
Media Law Prof Blog
Accommodating the First Amendment and Social Media in Public Schools
Mary-Rose Papandrea, Boston College Law School, has published Social Media, Public School Teachers, and the First Amendment in volume 90 of the North Carolina Law Review (2012). Here is the…
Land Use Prof Blog
Newsgathering in public forums: a personal encounter with the Daily Show
A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to watch Daily Show “correspondent” Aasif Mandvi at work here in Boise. Apparently he was in Boise for a piece that recently…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Virginia Court: First Amendment protection for lawyer-bloggers
Last fall Richmond criminal defense lawyer Horace Hunter was hit with a public reprimand by the Virginia Bar for blogging about his own cases and not including an 'advertising disclaimer'…
Media Law Prof Blog
The First Amendment, New Technologies, and Democracy
Jorge R. Roig, Charleston School of Law, is publishing Decoding First Amendment Coverage in the Age of Youtube, Facebook and the Arab Spring in the NYU Annual Survey of American…
LawSites
Court Says 1st Amendment Protects Lawyer’s Blogging
[Update: See Will Hornsby's perspective on the Hunter case.] A three-judge panel in Virginia has issued a decision that is important for lawyer-bloggers everywhere. The panel ruled that a lawyer…
Drug & Device Law
New First Amendment Article
By Bexis
While we’re still sitting around waiting for the Second Circuit to decide Caronia, we though we’d pass along a new article on the First Amendment and the FDA’s restrictions on…