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first amendment
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Legal Theory Blog
Andrias on the Collective Bargaining and the First Amendment
Kate Andrias (Columbia University - Law School) has posted SPEAKING COLLECTIVELY: THE FIRST AMENDMENT, THE PUBLIC SECTOR, AND THE RIGHT TO BARGAIN AND STRIKE on SSRN. Here is the abstract:…
Media and Communications Policy
Local Broadcasters Need Level Playing Field To Compete, Innovate, Serve the Public
America’s broadcasters are beacons of our democracy. Every day, they exercise their First Amendment right to report, inform, and help citizens understand the issues that affect their daily lives. And…
PrawfsBlawg
Kilborn v. UIC
Main Thursday, March 13, 2025Kilborn v. UICSeventh Circuit holds that UIC Law Prof Jason Kilborn adequately pleaded a First Amendment retaliation claim where the school sanctioned him in response to…
Religion Clause
Petition Seeks to Stop Latest Effort to Get Bibles in Oklahoma School Classrooms
As previously reported, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has issued an order staying any work by the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services on any new request by the Oklahoma State…
Pennsylvania Divorce and Domestic Relations Blog
“Science” & the 1st Amendment Will Wrestle in the Supreme Court.
By Mark Ashton
On March 10, 2025 the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to here an appeal from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chiles v. Salazar. This is yet…
Animal Law Developments
PETA Claims First Amendment Right to Communicate with Monkeys
The Beach Boys wrote a song called “Pet Sounds.” In a recently filed federal lawsuit, animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment Animals (“PETA”) claims that it has a…
Media and Communications Policy
Government Should Have No Role in Policing News Distortions
In early February, CBS News complied with an FCC request to hand over the raw footage and transcript from an October 2024 interview with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. The…
Levy Employment Law Blog
DEI in Crisis Part IX: First Amendment Rights Provide Partial Relief
By Tracey Levy
What is “illegal DEI”? That question was at the heart of a federal district court decision out of Maryland that issued a preliminary injunction against portions of the Trump executive…
Media and Communications Policy
A Mississippi City’s First Amendment Folly
William Faulkner, the great American writer, is famously and perhaps incorrectly attributed the quote, “To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.” My knowledge of the…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Constitutional Clash: Trump Administration Appeals Ruling Blocking DEI Orders As More Challenges Filed
By By: Shafeeqa W. Giarratani, T. Scott Kelly, Nonnie L. Shivers, Publisher, Zachary V. Zagger
Quick Hits The Trump administration is appealing a preliminary injunction that blocks key components of two executive orders aimed at restricting DEI programs. The administration also faces at least three…