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first amendment

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Drug & Device Law July 21, 2011
Interesting First Amendment Law Review Note
By Bexis
A recent law review note, Kristie Lasalle, "A Prescription for Change: Citizens United's Implications for Regulation of Off-Label Promotion of Prescription Pharmaceuticals, 19 J. L. & Pol’y 867 (2011), copy…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog July 19, 2011
Not a “True Threat”: The Ninth Circuit Holds Anonymous Threats to Obama Protected
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
The line between "true threats" and sort-of-threatening-or-offensive-statements is the line between criminality and First Amendment protection. In an opinion today in United States v. Bagdasarian, the Ninth Circuit reversed Bagdasarian's conviction, holding…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog July 14, 2011
Federal Judge Blocks NYC Law Requiring “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” to Disclose Position on Abortion
By Reproductive Rights
Wall St. Journal: Judge Blocks NYC’s Abortion-Disclosure Law, by Michael Howard Saul:A federal judge blocked a controversial New York City law requiring emergency-pregnancy centers to disclose that they don’t offer…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog July 13, 2011
Federal Judge Enjoins NYC Local Law 17 Regulating Deceptive “Pregnancy Service Centers”
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
New York City passed Local Law 17 earlier this year, set to become effective tomorrow, July 14, 2011, based on its finding that some so-calledpregnancy services centers in New York…
inversecondemnation.com July 13, 2011
Eighth Circuit Sees The Sign – Eminent Domain Abuse Protest Mural Gets First Amendment OK
By Robert H. Thomas
Is this a "sign?" The city of St. Louis thought so. The city's building inspection department issued a citation to the folks who commissioned the painting on a residential duplex,…
Drug & Device Law July 8, 2011
Industry Tries Again For Clarity Concerning Off-Label Promotion
By Bexis
With the ink barely dry on the Supreme Court’s recent decision that pharmaceutical detailing is First Amendment protected commercial speech, see Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., ___ U.S. ___, 2011…
Supreme Court Update July 7, 2011
Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett (10-238) (consolidated with McComish v. Bennett (10-239)), Stern v. Marshall (10-179) and United States v. Juvenile Male (09-940)
By Kim Rinehart
Greetings, Court fans! This Update will cover three decisions: Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett (10-238) (consolidated with McComish v. Bennett (10-239)), an important campaign finance case…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog June 28, 2011
The Right to Campaign Without a Response: Analysis of Arizona Free Enterprise
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
The Supreme Court issued a surprising decision on Monday in Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett by almost any measure. Perhaps the only way to make sense…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs June 28, 2011
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : June 28, 2011
By Colin O'Keefe
Oofta. Interested in knowing the number of posts on The LexBlog Network today? That'd be 192. Definitely a record. And it isn't just the growth in the quantity of content produced by…
The Faculty Lounge June 28, 2011
Violent Video Games and the Limits of Law
In the violent video game case, Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Ass'n, the majority thought that video games differed only in degree, not kind, from such violent fare as Grimm’s Fairy…