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Last Month at the Supreme Court
Last Month at the Supreme Court | April 2024
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Monika Harris, Christopher Sakauye, Puja R. Valera, A. Joseph Duffy IV, Heming Xu, Dykema
The April 2024 edition examines the Court’s decisions on First Amendment speech, administrative appeal deadlines, abortion medicine restrictions, and the Armed Career Criminal Act.
Municipal Minute
8th Circuit Finds First Amendment Violation in Government Official Blocking User from Twitter Account
An interesting case about government social media was decided by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in January of this year. Felts v. Green. This decision came out before last month's U.S.…
PrawfsBlawg
Nothing good happens after 2 a.m. or when you testify before a House Committee (Updated)
Main Saturday, April 20, 2024Nothing good happens after 2 a.m. or when you testify before a House Committee (Updated)David Pozen on Columbia President Minouche Shafik shattered multiple norms over how…
California Employment Law Update
Bloomberg Law Podcast: Broadway Casting Decision Shines Spotlight on Discrimination Claims
By Tony Oncidi
Labor Co-Chair Tony Oncidi joins Bloomberg Law podcast host June Grasso to discuss how the First Amendment can shield casting decisions from discrimination challenges. In this episode, Grasso and Oncidi cover a…
The Right Coast
Berkeley Law students flunk First Amendment 101
But the First Amendment doesn t protect disrupting events at people s homes and a UC Berkeley law student should know that.Disrupting someone else's event is antithetical to free speech,…
Media Law Prof Blog
Norton on Reinvigorating the Press Clause Through Negative Theory @ColoLaw
Helen L. Norton, University of Colorado Law School, has published Reinvigorating the Press Clause Through Negative Theory as part of the Knight First Amendment Institute, December 2023. Here is the…
California Public Agency Labor & Employment Blog
U.S. Supreme Court Decides New Rule for Government Officials and Social Media
By Guest Author
On March 15, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision in Lindke v. Freed an important case concerning state action, the First Amendment, government officials, and social media. …
ContractsProf Blog
Two University of Pennsylvania Professors Sue the University for Breach of Contract
Two tenured faculty members, Huda Fakhreddine (left), an associate professor of Arabic literature, and Troutt Powell (below right), a professor of Africana studies and history, as well as an organization,…
The Right Coast
Supreme Court must rely on the First Amendment, not its own precedent, when deciding government censorship case – Washington Examiner
The justices of the Supreme Court never focused on the First Amendment s words when hearing arguments in Murthy v. Missouri last week.The case challenges the federal government s orchestration…
Understanding the ADA
When Can Public Officials Delete Citizen Posts or Block Citizens From Commenting on Social Media Sites
Today’s blog entry does not have anything to do with people with disabilities per se. However, people with disabilities like anybody else do have the right to express their support…