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Municipal Minute
Court of Appeals Upholds Injunction Against a Library’s Removal of Controversial Books
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion on June 6th upholding a court's issuance of a preliminary injunction against a library in a First Amendment challenge to the…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
2024 CLEA Awards for Outstanding Clinical and Externship Students: Case Western Reserve’s Brooke White and Olivia Cobb
By Jeff Baker
Each year, the Clinical Legal Education Association invites law schools to nominate students as their Outstanding Clinic Student or Team and Outstanding Externship student. This series includes submissions from law schools celebrating…
Supreme Court Update
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Ltd. (No. 22-448), National Rifle Association v. Vullo (No. 22-842), Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy (No. 22-1078), and Culley v. Marshall (No. 22-585)
By Tadhg Dooley, David R. Roth
It’s the First Monday of June, meaning the Court’s about to step on the gas with respect to decisions. Despite the Court’s somewhat lethargic output to date, we’ve still managed…
Angela Reddock-Wright Blog
Can A Student’s Involvement in the Recent Campus Protests Affect Student Job Opportunities?
Since students took to protesting the Vietnam War in the 1960s, college campuses have become catalyzing arenas for student activists to voice their opinions and attempt to enact change. And…
PrawfsBlawg
TikTok ban and 3-judge district courts
Main Wednesday, May 08, 2024TikTok ban and 3-judge district courtsTikTok challenged the new law banning it (at least with Chinese ownership), alleging violations of the First Amendment, equal protection, bill…
Media Law Prof Blog
Dickinson on Beyond Social Media Analogues @StThomasLaw @StanfordLaw @nyulawreview
Gregory M. Dickison, St. Thomas University School of Law; Stanford Law School, has published Beyond Social Media Analogues at 99 NYU Law Review 109 (2024). Here is the abstract.The steady…
Municipal Minute
Court Rejects First Amendment Challenge to Public Comment Policy
An Illinois Appellate Court recently upheld the dismissal of a First Amendment and civil rights challenge to a municipality's public comment policy and various other actions. Eberhardt v. Village of…
Last Month at the Supreme Court
Supreme Court to Determine Whether State Government Violated the First Amendment Through Coercion
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Monika Harris, Christopher Sakauye, Puja R. Valera, A. Joseph Duffy IV, Heming Xu, Dykema
In National Rifle Association v. Vullo, the Supreme Court considers when a state actor crosses the line from persuasion to coercion in encouraging private parties to engage in viewpoint discrimination.…
Last Month at the Supreme Court
Decision Alert: Supreme Court Issues Unanimous Decision Establishing New Test to Determine State Action Liability in Lindke and O’Connor-Ratcliff
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Monika Harris, Christopher Sakauye, Puja R. Valera, A. Joseph Duffy IV, Heming Xu, Dykema
On March 15, 2024, the Court in Lindke v. Freed unanimously held that a government official may block members of the public from the official’s social media page because social…
Last Month at the Supreme Court
Supreme Court to Examine Social Media Content Moderation as State Action
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Monika Harris, Christopher Sakauye, Puja R. Valera, A. Joseph Duffy IV, Heming Xu, Dykema
In Murthy v. Missouri, the Supreme Court will decide whether interactions with federal government officials transformed social media content moderation decisions into state action and whether those decisions violate the…