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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
William Carter on “Trans Talk and the First Amendment”
By Jamie Abrams
William M. Carter has posted Trans Talk and the First Amendment on SSRN. The abstract is excerpted below: The rights of transgender youth and their families have increasingly come under attack.…
Media Law Prof Blog
Post on The Enigma of Gitlow: Positivism, Liberty, Democracy, and Freedom of Speech @YaleLawSch
Robert Post, Yale Law School, has published The Enigma of Gitlow: Positivism, Liberty, Democracy, and Freedom of Speech. Here is the abstract.Gitlow v. New York held that courts should defer…
Cleary Securities, Disclosure, and Governance Watch
District Court Holds Missouri’s “Anti-ESG” Rules are Preempted by Federal Law, Violate First Amendment, and are Unconstitutionally Vague[1]
By Francesca L. Odell, Robin M. Bergen, Helena K. Grannis, Lillian Tsu, Charity E. Lee, Adrian Gariboldi
On August 14, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri (the “District Court”) issued a decision ordering a permanent injunction against rules promulgated by the Missouri…
Chicago Criminal Law Blog
Growing Concerns Over Social Media and Government Agencies
DOJ Sets Procedures for Federal Agencies to Interact with Social Media Companies The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently announced that it had developed and implemented formal policies and procedures for…
Incontestable Blog
DMCA Survives Another First Amendment Challenge
By Publisher
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently issued its decision in Matthew Green v. DOJ, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to section 1201 of…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
First Amendment Law of Student Speech as Protection for Transgender Youth
By Tracy Thomas
William M. Carter, Jr. "Trans Talk" and the First Amendment, The rights of transgender youth and their families have increasingly come under attack. In addition to barring transgender youth from…
Religion Clause
1st Circuit: Satanic Temple Loses Bid to Deliver City Council Invocation
In The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. City of Boston, (1st Cir., Aug. 6, 2024), the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals rejected arguments that the failure to invite Satanic Temple to deliver…
Media Law Prof Blog
White on Reconsidering the Legacy of New York Times v. Sullivan @UVALaw
G. Edward White, University of Virginia School of Law, has published Reconsidering the Legacy of New York Times V. Sullivan as Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No.…
Public Law Research Blog
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: The First Amendment and Personal Social Media
By ahemenwaynlrg-com-anne-b-hemenway
Anne Hemenway—Senior Attorney On March 15, 2024, the United States Supreme Court decided a pair of cases from Michigan and California on the issue of whether a…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Sixth Circuit Upholds School Misgendering Policy, Saying Objectors Can Avoid Using Pronouns
By Tracy Thomas
ABA J. 6th Circuit Refuses to Block School's Pronoun Policy; Dissent Makes Belief-in-Ghost ComparisonA federal appeals court has refused to block a school policy banning the misgendering of transgender students.The…