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PrawfsBlawg
Higher Education and Institutional Pluralism
Main Tuesday, June 06, 2023Higher Education and Institutional PluralismAbout a million years ago (well, 15, but still . . . ) I posted here at Prawfsblawg about then-AALS President John…
Municipal Minute
Federal Court Tackles First Amendment Challenge to University’s Public Comment Procedures
Recently, a federal district court denied a university's motion to dismiss a First Amendment lawsuit brought by union members. SEIU Local 73 v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.In…
Tucker Arensberg Blog
COURT RULES THAT INFLAMMATORY SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS BY A PUBLIC EMPLOYEE ARE NOT PROTECTED BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Christopher L. Voltz, Esq., cvoltz@tuckerlaw.com, (412) 594-5580 Vallecorsa v. Allegheny Cty., No. 2:19-CV-1495-NR, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 206720, at *2 (W.D. Pa. Nov. 15, 2022). United States District Court for the…
Faruki Blog
First Amendment, Social Media and Bullying
By jgreinerficlaw-com-jack-greiner
School districts around the country continue to struggle with how to balance the First Amendment rights of students with efforts to stop online harassment and bullying. A recent New Jersey…
PrawfsBlawg
Law meets entertainment news
Main Sunday, May 28, 2023Law meets entertainment newsA fun confluence. In April, a divided Ninth Circuit panel held that a state law limiting honking of car horns to warnings did…
Simple Justice
Beyond The Gown
Somebody got the idea to put “Hi Mom” in tape on the top of their mortar board, and everybody thought it was sweet, funny and acceptable. Before that, nobody questioned…
Media Law Prof Blog
Krotoszynski and Roberts on Reimagining First Amendment Remedies @UALawSchool @capricelroberts @LSULawCenter @IowaLawReview
Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., University of Alabama School of Law, and Caprice L. Roberts, Louisiana State University Law Center, are publishing Reimagining First Amendment Remedies at 109 Iowa Law Review…
Simple Justice
The Battle In The Escambia County School Library
In a curiously blind assertion, Michelle Goldberg offers the right condemnation. What I find most fascinating about the lawsuit, though, is the glimpse it offers into how national and state-level…
Religion Clause
7th Grader Sues Over School’s Hate Speech Dress Code
Suit was filed yesterday in a Massachusetts federal district court challenging the Middleborough school district's Dress Code which provides:Clothing must not state, imply, or depict hate speech or imagery that…
Lawyers Representing Lawyers
Plagiarism Draws Sanctions in First Amendment Case
The Federal District Court in Philadelphia has sanctioned a lawyer for copying and pasting opposing counsel’s motion in limine and filing it as her own work product the next day.…