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Media Law Prof Blog
Anonymous Speech and the First Amendment
Lyrissa Lidsky, University of Florida College of Law, and Thomas Cotter, University of Minnesota School of Law, have published "Authorship, Audiences, and Anonymous Speech" as Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper…
Media Law Prof Blog
Gripe Sites and the First Amendment
Jacqueline Lipton, Case Western Reserve Law School, has published "Commerce vs. Commentary: Parody, Gripe Sites and the First Amendment in Cyberspace" via SSRN. Here is the abstract.The Global Online Freedom…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Arbitrator Reinstates Klan State Trooper
This case really highlights the difference between a just cause labor arbitration case and a civil rights action for deprivation of First Amendment rights in federal court.A racist Nebraska state…
LawSites
Media Law: First Amendment ‘podcasts’
At my other blog: First Amendment 'podcasts'.
Media Law Prof Blog
Hilden on Free Speech and MedMal
FindLaw's Julie Hilden has an essay on whether the First Amendment protects websites, like Litipages.com, that publish the names of patients who sue their physicians. Read more about such suits…
The Trademark Blog
Trademark Blog Befriends Court In First Amendment/Trademark Case
The Trademark Blog was a signatory on a friend of the court brief in Freecycle v. Oey. The case involved two problematic points - a finding that talking about a…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Of Public School Teachers, Artistic Expression, and Topless Photos
CNN.com had a story yesterday about a public school art teacher in Austin, Texas, an excellent teacher by all accounts, fighting for her job after topless photos were discovered of…
Sunshine in Missouri
Freedom of What Speech?
By Jean Maneke
Yesterday, a reporter told me about a school board who met in closed session. The meeting included a recently-elected board member who was apparently new to the whole process. After…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Hutchinson on Infusing the Labor Union Dues Dispute with First Amendment Values
Harry Hutchinson (George Mason) has posted on SSRN his forthcoming article in the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, A Clearing in the Forest: Infusing the Labor Union Dues…
Labor Law Prof Blog
The First Amendment Rights of Day Laborers
When one thinks of day laborers, from the movies or in real life, one thinks of large groups of ethnic men congregating in the parking lot of Home Depot or…