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first amendment
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Drug & Device Law
FDA – Legal Supervision Required
By Bexis
Not too long ago, Bexis and Sean Wajert (along with Dechert associate Vince Gallo), wrote a backgrounder for the WLF about likely problems that could arise from the FDA's recent…
Media Law Prof Blog
Government Speech
Helen L. Norton, University of Colorado School of Law, and Danielle Keats Citron, University of Maryland School of Law, have published Government Speech 2.0, in volume 88 of the Denver…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Intimate Associations and Public Employment
In the past, I have written about my belief that constitutional protections for public employees in sexual privacy should enjoy the same protections afforded to First Amendment rights to speech…
School Law
Inviting a Same Sex Date to the Prom Constitutes First Amendment Protected Speech
A decision to bring a same sex date to the prom is expressive speech under the First Amendment. The Itawamba Agricultural High School had an “opposite sex date” policy for…
Media Law Prof Blog
Second Circuit Upholds FCC In Cablevision “Must Carry” Case
The Second Circuit has denied a cable systems operator's challenge to an FCC order that it carry a station pursuant to the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act. The…
Media Law Prof Blog
Capturing, Recording, and Transmitting Digital Cell Phone Videos
Seth F. Kreimer, University of Pennsylvania Law School, has published "Pervasive Image Capture and the First Amendment: Memory, Discourse, and the Right to Record," forthcoming in volume 159 of the…
Legal Ease Blog
U.S. Court of Appeals Rules on NY Lawyer Advertising Rules
By Allison Johs
On March 12, the Second Circuit issued its decision in Alexander v. Cahill, the case that challenged the changes to the New York ethics rules with respect to lawyer advertising.…
Labor Law Prof Blog
9th Cir. First Amendment/Labor Law Heading to En Banc Review
Ask and ye shall receive. In this case, that means my wishes were granted in the Ampersand case where I argued a panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled inappropriately that…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Exhibit A: Federal Courts Don’t Understand Labor Law
My good friend, Rick Garnett (Notre Dame) has posted on Prawfsblawg an entry entited: The "Institutional" First Amendment. In the post, he discusses the Ninth Circuit's recent decision in McDermott…
ContractsProf Blog
Ninth Circuit Rules Government Contracting No Bar to Exercise of Free Speech Rights
Judge Louis H. Pollak, sitting by designation on the Ninth Circuit, authored the unanimous opinion in Marez v. Bassett, a case brought by a vendor who claimed that he was…