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Sentencing Law and Policy
Second Circuit affirms conviction and sentence of creator of morphed child porn
Main February 28, 2011Second Circuit affirms conviction and sentence of creator of morphed child pornThe Second Circuit today handed down an interesting and notable child porn ruling in US v.…
Media Law Prof Blog
Government Websites and the First Amendment
David S. Ardia, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, is publishing Government Speech and Online Forums: First Amendment Limitations on Moderating Public Discourse on Government Websites in the Brigham Young University…
inversecondemnation.com
U.S. Supreme Court To Decide Whether A Councilmember With A Conflict Of Interest Has a First Amendment Right To Vote Anyway
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide a case about whether state laws which require elected officials to recuse themselves from considering matters on which they appear to have…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Federal Court Rules Baltimore Regulation of “Crisis Pregnancy Centers” Violates 1st Amendment
Ms. Magazine: Oh, Baltimore!, by Dahlia Grossman-Heinze: On January 31, U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis ruled that an ordinance regulating crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) in Baltimore violates the constitutional right…
The Faculty Lounge
Class Action Suit Claims Promotion of Jimmy Carter’s Palestine Book was Consumer Fraud
Jimmy Carter and Simon & Schuster, the publisher of his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, have been sued on the theory that it was consumer deception to promote the book…
Media Law Prof Blog
Vagueness About the First Amendment
Larry Alexander, University of San Diego School of Law, is publishing There is No First Amendment Overbreadth (But There are Vague First Amendment Doctrines); Prior Restraints Aren’t ‘Prior’; and ‘As Applied’…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Constitutionality of False Statements of Fact
Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School, has published 'Telling Me Lies': The Constitutionality of Regulating False Statements of Fact as Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 11-02. Here is the abstract.Using recent…
Land Use Prof Blog
Baltimore City Sign Ordinance Struck Down
U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Garbis issued his decision yesterday in O'Brien v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. Finding it contrary to the First Amendment, the court invalidated a 2009 Baltimore City ordinance that…
Media Law Prof Blog
True Threats, Advocacy, and the First Amendment
Mark Strasser, Capital University Law School, has published Advocacy, True Threats, and the Constitution at 38 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 339 (2011). Here is the abstract.Brandenburg v. Ohio is thought by…
The Faculty Lounge
Snyder v. Phelps Podcast
I should have posted this some time ago, but better late than never. I did a post argument podcast on Snyder v. Phelps for the Federalist Society, available here.