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The Faculty Lounge
Mr. Phelps Goes To Washington
The SCT granted cert yesterday in Snyder v. Phelps, to determine whether a $5 million verdict should be reinstated against members of the Westboro Baptist Church. Phelps is the Kansas…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Garden on Union Campaigns as Constitutionally Protected Speech
Charlotte Garden (Georgetown) has just posted on SSRN her article Labor Values are First Amendment Values: Why Union Comprehensive Campaigns are Protected Speech. Charlotte presented this article at the Seton…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Government As Speaker Under the First Amendment
Steven G. Gery, Florida State University College of Law, has published "Why Should the First Amendment Protect Government Speech When the Government Has Nothing to Say?" It is forthcoming in the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Six-month sentence for importing the wrong kind of comic books from Japan
Main February 15, 2010Six-month sentence for importing the wrong kind of comic books from Japan Thanks to this post at How Appealing, I saw this interesting item on a Wired.com…
Labor Law Prof Blog
5th Cir.: Janitor Union Wins on Claim That Houston’s Parade Ordinances Constitutionally Interferes with Ability to Strike
Unusual First Amendment case involving a union prevailing on some claims that Houston's sound, park, and parade ordinances violate the 1st Amendment.The case is SEIU v. City of Houston (5th…
The Right Coast
My proposal for amending the First Amendment Tom Smith
Amendment 1AThis amendment shall be known as the "Power to the People, Power to the People Right On!" Amendment. Nothing in the amendment right before this one shall be construed…
The Legal Watercooler
Tweeting, Defamation and the First Amendment
I love the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of…
Sentencing Law and Policy
WillCitizens Unitedruling impact crime and justice campaign advertising?
Main January 21, 2010Will Citizens United ruling impact crime and justice campaign advertising?As expected, the Supreme Court's special session today resulted in its announcement of its long-awaited decision in Citizens…
The Right Coast
Citizens United case comes down Tom Smith
SCOTUS has apparently looked at the First Amendment and decided it's OK and I say good for them. I shall have to read the opinions or at least some summaries…
Labor Law Prof Blog
A New Era of Political Action By Unions and Employers?
With news that the Supreme Court has just struck down campaign spending bans on corporations (the holding stuck down a prohibition against firms airing their owncampaign ads, but left in…