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Labor Law Prof Blog
Ceballos Strikes Again
As readers of this blog know, I am no fan of the Supreme Court's 2006 decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos, which drastically reduced the First Amendment rights of public employees. …
Media Law Prof Blog
NYC, New York Civil Liberties Union Settle Dispute Over Filmmaker’s Detention, Right to Shoot Footage in Public
The New York Civil Liberties Union and the City of New York have agreed to settle a lawsuit over the city's detention of filmmaker Rakesh Sharma in 2005 while he…
Labor Law Prof Blog
No First Amendment Public Concern Here
Via Yahoo! News and the AP:A porn star claims a state trooper who stopped her on a highway letdrug charges slide in exchange for oral sex. And she says she's…
The Right Coast
Sicko Tom Smith
Here's something on Fat Mike's new movie Sicko.Freedom isn't free, and if you had any doubt whether the first amendment was free, I offer you Michael Moore. The post above…
The Trademark Blog
“Who Owns ‘Hillary.Com’?
Lipton, Jacqueline D., "Who Owns 'Hillary.Com'? Political Speech and the First Amendment in Cyberspace" . Boston College Law Review, Spring 2008 Available at SSRN Abstract: In the lead-up to the…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
call for papers
By legalwriting
Stetson College of Law is seeking submissions from professors, legal scholars and non legal scholars on the topic of Culture, Language and the First Amendment. The Imus/Rutgers controversy has spurred…
The Right Coast
Surely this can’t be right Tom Smith
An official at the Library of Congress tries to tell a blogger (sort of) at Cato that he cannot use the name "Library of Congress" even if what he is…
Media Law Prof Blog
DC Circuit Rules Congressman Did Not Have First Amendment Right To Leak Phone Call To Media
The DC Circuit has ruled (again) that Congressperson Jim McDermott did not have a First Amendment right to leak a tape recording of a phone call to members of the…
Media Law Prof Blog
The Press Clause
Edwin Baker, University of Pennsylvania Law School, is publishing "The Independent Significance of the Press Clause Under Existing Law," in a forthcoming issue of the Hofstra Law Review. Here is…
LawSites
Advertising, ethics and the First Amendment
Colette Vogele provides a nice round-up of articles, blogs and other resources related to attorney advertising, ethical rules and the First Amendment. It is drawn from the written materials from…