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Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Second Circuit on First Amendment Rights of Clerk of County Court
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In an opinion issued this morning, the Second Circuit has allowed Bobette Morin's lawsuit against judges and court personnel in Ononganda County, New York to go forward. In Morin v. Tormey,…
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Cigarette Labeling and the First Amendment
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The FDA this week unveiled its new proposed cigarette warning labels under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, signed on June 22, 2009. Here are a some sample approved…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Operation Rescue Leader On Trial For WANTED Posters
Feminist Wire (Ms. Magazine): North Carolina Anti-Abortion Leader Tried for WANTED Posters:Flip Benham of Operation Rescue/Operation Save America, goes to trial today for stalking and distributing WANTED posters with the…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Michigan Assistant AG Terminated: First Amendment Issue?
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Recall the Michigan Assistant AG who claimed he was engaging in political speech in a campaign against the gay university student body president? The state AG, Mike Cox, terminated him today. …
Land Use Law Blog
Got Ink?
Tattoos: First amendment protected speech. A city ordinance effectively banning tattoo parlors oversteps constitutional limits protecting freedom of expression.
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
What the Election Results Mean for Reproductive Rights
Center for Reproductive Rights: Election Perspective, by Nancy Northup:Imagine waking up the day after an election to find that your First Amendment Rights were more vulnerable than the day before? …
Media Law Prof Blog
Foreign Speakers After “Citizens United”
Toni M. Massaro, University of Arizona College of Law, has published Foreign Nationals, Electoral Spending, and the First Amendment in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy (2011). Here is…
Sentencing Law and Policy
New student note proposing new framework for assessing computer conditions
Main October 31, 2010New student note proposing new framework for assessing computer conditionsA helpful reader altered me to this notable new student note by Gabriel Gillett, headlined "A World Without…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Sixth Circuit Holds Teacher Has No First Amendment Right in Assignments
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Shelley Evans-Marshall taught English and Creative Writing in high school, to ninth, eleventh and twelfth graders. She assigned Herman Hesse's Siddhartha. She assigned Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and to explore…
CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY'S FEES
Civil Rights: Plaintiff Civil Rights Organization Entitled To Seek Attorney’s Fees Under Judicially Enforceable Settlement Agreement
Ninth Circuit Reverses District Court’s Denial of Fees to Settling Plaintiff. In La Asociacion de Trabajadores de Lake Forest v. National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Case No. 08-56564 (9th Cir.…