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Internet & Social Media Law Blog
Supreme Court Weighs Whether Refusing to Register TRUMP TOO SMALL Trademark Violates First Amendment
By Jon Jekel
On November 1, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court engaged in a thought-provoking deliberation concerning the intersection of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and U.S. trademark law, Vidal v.…
Religion Clause
Louis Farrakhan Sues Anti-Defamation League for $4.8 Billion
Suit was filed earlier this month in a New York federal district court by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan against the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center seeking $4.8…
IP IQ
What’s in a Name? Too Much to Trademark According to the USPTO
By Bradley
With the U.S. Supreme Court beginning a new session, many are wondering what new issues the Court will address this term. One case the Court is scheduled to hear involves…
PrawfsBlawg
Lowering Expectations or What are universities supposed to do?
Main Wednesday, November 01, 2023Lowering Expectations or What are universities supposed to do?Jewish advocates; pro-Israel and Jewish students, alums, donors, faculty and others; the Biden Administration; and others are demanding…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
House Dems and Now a Senate Republican Introduce Legislation Overruling Citizens United
It should come as no surprise when House Democrats introduce a constitutional amendment seeking to overturn Citizens United, as some did earlier this year with the Democracy for All Amendment. …
Media Law Prof Blog
Post on Public Accommodations and the First Amendment: 303 Creative and “Pure Speech” @YaleLawSch
Robert Post, Yale Law School, has published Public Accommodations and the First Amendment: 303 Creative and "Pure Speech." Here is the abstract.In the recent case of 303 Creative v. Elenis,…
Simple Justice
Did The Toolkit Cross A Line?
Ron DeSantis (because of course, Ron DeSantis) called upon Florida Universities to shutter the student organization Students for Justice in Palestine. The group, which has existed for years, has seized…
Privacy World
California Attorney General Appeals Federal Court Ruling That Online Child Safety Act Is Likely Unconstitutional
By Kristin Bryan, Alan Friel, Kyle Fath, James Brennan
Last week, the Attorney General for California filed a notice of appeal to overturn a federal court ruling that the state’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (“CAADCA”) likely violates the First…
Media Law Prof Blog
Knight Institute: Call For Papers: New Voices In Press Freedom @knightcolumbia
From the Knight Institute: A Call For Papers: New Voices In Press FreedomThe Knight Institute invites submissions from junior scholars exploring the news in changing times. The Knight First Amendment Institute…
Regulatory Oversight
Washington AG Ordered to Pay $4.3M in Attorney’s Fees and Costs to Thrift Store Chain
By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team, Ryan J. Strasser, David N. Anthony
On October 17, following Washington Attorney General (AG) Bob Ferguson's unsuccessful consumer protection action against thrift store chain, Savers Value Village Inc. (Savers), the Washington Superior Court of King County…