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first amendment
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Media Law Prof Blog
The First Amendment and the Right of Publicity
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, DePaul University College of Law, has published "A Perspective on Human Dignity, the First Amendment and the Right of Publicity," in volume 51 of the Boston College…
Land Use Prof Blog
Protection for nude dancing, deep in the heart of Texas …
Whenever I mention to students that some courts have held that “nude dancing” businesses receive some first amendment protection, I get back snickers and looks of disbelief. I then…
Media Law Prof Blog
What the First Amendment Protects
Steven G. Gey, Florida State University College of Law, has published "The First Amendment and the Dissemination of Socially Worthless Untruths," in volume 36 of Florida State University Law Review…
Media Law Prof Blog
Looking at Women Through the First Amendment
Amy M. Adler, New York University, School of Law, has published "Medusa: A Glimpse of the Woman in First Amendment Law," forthcoming in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.…
Media Law Prof Blog
A History of the Use of Media Subpoenas
RonNell Andersen Jones, Brigham Young University Law School, has published "Media Subpoenas: Impact, Perception, and Legal Protection in the Changing World of American Journalism," in the Washington Law Review (forthcoming). Here…
Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer
May 35th, 1989
I’m no First Amendment scholar, but I’ll lay donuts to dollars that versus freedom of speech and freedom of religion, “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to…
CommLawBlog
The Lazy Man’s Guide to the Sotomayor Nomination
Check out these links for possible insight into how the appointment of Judge Sotomayor to replace Justice Souter might affect broadcasters and other media.
ImmigrationProf Blog
Judge orders discovery in case brought over U.S. denial of visa to South African scholar: At issue is whether meeting by videoconference preserves First Amendment rights of organization seeking his attendance
The National Law Journal reports on a very interesting immigration and First Amendment case percolating in the federal district court in Boston. A judge there ordered discovery into whether allowing videoconferencing…
Media Law Prof Blog
Science, the Brain, and the First Amendment
Interesting post by Marc Blitz over at Neuroscience and Law Blog on the subject of "low value speech" and the assumptions that scholars make about it, particularly with regard to its…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Sonia Sotomayor’s Record on Abortion
SCOTUSblog summarizes Judge Sotomayor's civil appellate opinions, including one of the few cases she has decided that addressed abortion (via a challenge to the Global Gag Rule, which President Obama…