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  1. Constitutional Law Prof Blog

    Check it Out: Witt’s Weaponized from the Beginning

    By Steven D. Schwinn

    John Fabian Witt (Yale), Weaponized from the beginning:Standard accounts of the modern First Amendment attribute its origins to a moment of hopeful discovery of the value of free speech for…

  2. Constitutional Law Prof Blog

    You Might Find This Interesting: The Dueling First Amendment Claims in the Ninth Circuit’s Cancer-Warning Case

    By Steven D. Schwinn

    Steven D. Schwinn, University of Illinois Chicago School of LawA Ninth Circuit case over California's cancer-warning requirement raises interesting competing First Amendment claims. In particular, the case tests free-speech rights…

  3. Media Law Prof Blog

    LoMonte and Fiku on Thinking Outside the Dox: The First Amendment and the Right To Disclose Personal Information @FrankLoMonte @UFLaw @UMKCLawReview

    By Media Law Prof Blog

    Frank LoMonte, University of Florida College of Law, and Paola Fiku, Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, have published Thinking Outside the Dox: The First Amendment and the Right to…

  4. Tucker Arensberg Blog

    School District’s Discipline for Off-Campus Social Media Post Violated Student’s First Amendment Free Speech Rights

    By Cathy Anderson

    Ashley J. Puchalski, Esq., apuchalski@tuckerlaw.com, (412) 594-5509 In re Appeal of G.S., 269 A.3d 718, 722 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2022), appeal denied, 61 MAL 2022, 2022 WL 2447538 (Pa. July 6, 2022)…

  5. AdLaw By Request®

    Pause: Texas Social Media Law on Hold as it heads to Supreme Court for Review

    By Jason Gordon, Robert Newman, Michael Isselin, Emily Faro

    A federal appeals court has agreed to put on hold a Texas social media law, HB 20, that restricts content moderation actions on social media platforms. The Fifth U.S. Circuit…

  6. The Right Coast

    State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Biden, et al. – New Civil Liberties Alliance

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Public statements, emails, and recent publicly released documents establish that the President of the United States and other senior officials in the Biden Administration violated the First Amendment by directing…

  7. Media Law Prof Blog

    Calvert on First Amendment Battles Over Anti-DePlatforming Statutes: Examining Miami Herald Publishing C. v. Tornillo’s Relevance for Today’s Online Social Media Platform Cases @ProfClayCalvert @UFLaw

    By Media Law Prof Blog

    Clay Calvert, University of Florida College of Law, has published First Amendment Battles over-Anti-Deplatforming Statutes: Examining Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo's Relevance for Today's Online Social Media Platform Cases…

  8. PrawfsBlawg

    Staying in your lawyering lane

    By prawfsblawg@gmail.com

    Main Thursday, October 13, 2022Staying in your lawyering lanePopehat offers a thread on bad lawyering arising from the recording of several Los Angeles City Council members and a union leader…

  9. PrawfsBlawg

    Yale responds to Judge Ho

    By prawfsblawg@gmail.com

    Main Thursday, October 13, 2022Yale responds to Judge HoNLJ story here. The school revised its free-expression policies to include three conditions on protesting/disagreeing with a speaker: no blocking access to…

  10. ContractsProf Blog

    Contracts and the First Amendment in SCOTUS: 303 Creative

    By Jeremy Telman

    I'm still planning to keep a low profile on the blog for October, but I wanted to get this post up while I'm thinking about it.  For those of you…