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first amendment
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Viewpoint Distinctions in Favor of Anti-LGBTQ Speech
By Tracy Thomas
Carlos Ball, First Amendment Exemptions for Some, 137 Harvard L. Rev. Forum (forthcoming 2023) This Essay argues that the Supreme Court’s assessment of what it understood to be the sincerity and…
California Public Agency Labor & Employment Blog
Can My Agency Ban TikTok?
By Anthony Co
In Texas v. Johnson, the Supreme Court summarized the “bedrock principle” of the First Amendment: “that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds…
Religion Clause
Illinois Regulation of Limited Purpose Pregnancy Centers Violates 1st Amendment
In National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Raoul, (ND IL, Aug. 4, 2023), an Illinois federal district court issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of Illinois SB 1909 which…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Nonprofit Bail Fund Loses First Amendment Challenge
I have previously jumped on my soap box about attacks on nonprofit bail funds. Here in Orlando last week, in yet another brazen act of Third Reich-ness, Governor DeSatan "temporarily…
The Insightful Immigration Blog
Will United States v. Hansen Come Back to Bite Trump?
By Cyrus Mehta
By Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box* Former President Trump was indicted on August 1, 2023 by Special Counsel Jack Smith for his efforts to overturn the 2020 elections. Although…
ContractsProf Blog
Locker Room Rap Breaching Licensing Agreements Leads to Suspension of Football Activities at FAMU
I have been writing for the last two years or so about the interaction between contracts rights and First Amendment rights. There are links to lots of posts starting with…
The Right Coast
Even lies are protected speech: New Trump indictment bulldozes the First Amendment | The Hill
The government acknowledges that the Constitution protects false statements made in campaigns, but it insists that Trump must have known that his statements were false and therefore was engaged in…
Media Law Prof Blog
Satta on Shantay Drag Stays: Anti-Drag Laws Violate the First Amendment @mark_satta @waynestate
Mark Satta, Wayne State University, is publishing Shantay Drag Stays: Anti-Drag Laws Violate the First Amendment in the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law. Here is the abstract.So far…
Simple Justice
Trump, No Victim of Circumstance
The indictment, the third as of now, has been revealed, and legal issues of intent and evidence aside, not to mention the fact that the evidence comes not out of…
PrawfsBlawg
The future of New York Times and SLAPP laws
Main Tuesday, August 01, 2023The future of New York Times and SLAPP lawsA federal judge last week dismissed Donald Trump's $ 450 million lawsuit over CNN describing his post-election statements…