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Sentencing Law and Policy
Seeking First Amendment and feminist perspectives on an escort’s sentence
Main September 29, 2009Seeking First Amendment and feminist perspectives on an escort's sentenceThis new federal sentencing story out of California, which is headlined "Stanford Law School grad turned call girl…
The IP Law Blog
Hallmark Cards Raises Unique Defense to Paris Hilton’s Right of Publicity Claim – That’s Hot
by Scott Hervey This is about a birthday card. Not just any birthday card mind you. This birthday card, produced by Hallmark Cards, depicts a cartoon waitress, dressed in an apron, serving…
Media Law Prof Blog
Alternative Media and Student Speech
In the aftermath of the Layshock and Donniger cases, FindLaw's Laura Hodes discusses school suits against students who criticize and/or comment, sometimes vociferously, on school policy and school officials.
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
LexBlog Law Network Roundup – 9/24/09
The First Amendment has always been an interesting subject. At a majority of journalism schools, students take a class that's almost entirely devoted to the subject. Yes, "freedom of speech" for…
De Novo
Snyder v. Phelps: New First Amendment Opinion from the Fourth Circuit
By Jay O'Keeffe
The Fourth Circuit hands down a new First Amendment decision today in Snyder v. Phelps. Snyder is an important case for more than purely doctrinal reasons. It involves the Westboro Baptist Church, a…
Corporate & Securities Law Blog
NEW YORK FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT REJECTS CREDIT RATING AGENCIES’ FIRST AMENDMENT DEFENSE
In Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank v. Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., 2009 WL 2828018 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 2, 2009), the United States District Court Southern District of New York (Scheindlin, J.)…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Internet Under the First Amendment
Anthony E. Varona, American University College of Law, has published "Toward a Broadband Public Interest Standard," in volume 61 of the American Law Review (2009). Here is the abstract.Although they…
Media Law Prof Blog
Balancing Publicity Rights and Free Speech
Diane Leenheer Zimmerman, New York University School of Law, has published "Money as a Thumb on the Constitutional Scale: Weighing Speech against Publicity Rights." It is forthcoming in the Boston…
Media Law Prof Blog
Student Press Law Center Files Amicus Brief in Doninger Case
From Frank LoMonte, Executive Director of the Student Press Law CenterThe Student Press Law Center ("SPLC&"), the nation's only nonprofit legal-assistance organization serving student journalists, filed a friend-of-the-court brief today…
The D&O Diary
Rating Agencies’ First Amendment Defense Rejected in Subprime Suit
Among the causes many cite for the subprime meltdown is the willingness of the rating agencies to assign investment grade rating to securities backed by subprime mortgages. For that reason,…