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first amendment
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The Trade Secret Litigator
WikiLeaks and Trade Secrets: The First Amendment Challenge
By John Marsh
Does the First Amendment provide complete protection to a whistleblower like WikiLeaks that attempts to post trade secrets on the Internet?
Media Law Prof Blog
Health Regulation and the Commercial Speech Doctrine
David Orentlicher, University of Iowa College of Law & Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, has published The Commercial Speech Doctrine in Health Regulation: The Clash between the Public Interest…
LawSites
Judge Alex Kozinski Joins Us on Lawyer2Lawyer
Has technology rendered the First Amendment obsolete? Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, made that case in a recent speech at Golden Gate University School of Law.…
School Law
Second Circuit Court of Appeals Issues Decision on Disciplining a Student for Off-Campus E-Mail
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a decision concluding that Region 10 school officials were entitled to qualified immunity as to a former student’s claims that they had…
Health Law Prof Blog
Guest Blogger Leslie Francis: Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Sorrell
Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on April 26th. The issue in the highly-publicized case is whether Vermont’s statute concerning the sale of provider-identifiable…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
First Amendment and Legislative Voting
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan, the case testing whether a state ethics law that restricts a city council member's vote…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Sorrell v. IMS: Oral Argument Analysis
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
The Court heard oral argument today (transcript here) in Sorrell v. IMS which raises the constitutionality of a Vermont statute prohibiting pharmacies from selling physician aggregated prescription information to pharmaceutical companies…
inversecondemnation.com
Oral Argument Preview: Supreme Court Reviewing Ethics Laws – Is An Elected Official’s Vote “Speech?”
Tomorrow (April 27, 2011), the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Comm'n on Ethics of the State of Nevada v. Carrigan, No. 10-568 (cert. granted Jan 7, 2011).…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Footnote of the Day: Topless Dancing, Alcohol, and the First Amendment
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
"If topless dancing is entitled to First Amendment protection, it would seem to me that the places where it should most appropriately be conducted are places where alcoholic beverages are…
Land Use Law Blog
If You Don’t Like What You See, Don’t Look
By Leslie Z. Walker The First Amendment Free Speech clause states, “Congress . . . shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech.” The political and…