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PrawfsBlawg
More confusion on legislative immunity
Main Tuesday, May 10, 2022More confusion on legislative immunityI wrote a few weeks ago about a Ninth Circuit case allowing a state legislator to pursue a First Amendment retaliation claim…
Supreme Court Update
Shurtleff v. City of Boston (No. 20-1800)
By Tadhg Dooley, David R. Roth
Slow news week at One First Street, with just one 9-0 decision in a (fairly interesting) First Amendment case. What’s that you say? You’ve heard tell of another opinion making…
Municipal Minute
Supreme Court Finds City in Violation of First Amendment for Denying Religious Flag on City Flag Pole
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion finding the City of Boston in violation of the First Amendment after it denied a religious group the ability to fly…
PrawfsBlawg
Boston’s flagpole program not government speech
Main Monday, May 02, 2022Boston's flagpole program not government speechA unanimous-in-the-judgment SCOTUS holds in Shurtleff v. City of Boston that Boston's program of flying private flags (on a pole usually…
PrawfsBlawg
Everything wrong with qualified immunity
Main Saturday, April 30, 2022Everything wrong with qualified immunityin this Sixth Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to two police officers who arrested and commenced prosecution of a man for creating…
Simple Justice
When Parody Is The Probable Cause
Some people don’t get parody. Others don’t think it’s funny. When Anthony Novak decided to create a parody site for the Parma Police Department, he thought it was funny. But…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Fifth Circuit Remands Ban on Leafletting in Large Crowds
By Laura Salter
A few years ago, Joshua Herridge was waiting outside of a ZZ Top concert in Montgomery County, Texas, but unlike most people gathering near the event hall, he was not there to see…
The Right Coast
U. Central Florida Discriminatory-Harassment Policy Likely Violates The First Amendment Rules Federal Appeals Court
Speech First, a nonprofit membership association working to combat restrictions on free speech and other civil rights at colleges and universities across the United States, filed a lawsuit today against…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Austin, Texas in Billboard Case, Upholds Off-Premises Sign Regulations
On Thursday, in the case of City of Austin v. Reagan National Advertising, a case on which we’ve previously reported, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the City of Austin,…
PrawfsBlawg
Bad legal journalism
Main Thursday, April 21, 2022Bad legal journalismI (and most lawyers) regularly complain about how badly the media covers courts and law. I am particularly attuned to sloppy and inaccurate use…