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Tucker Carlson: Not to be Treated as Making Factual Statements (in Former Model’s Defamation Case)
Main Sunday, October 04, 2020Tucker Carlson: Not to be Treated as Making Factual Statements (in Former Model's Defamation Case)In McDougal v. Fox News Network, 2020 WL 5731954 (Sept. 24, 2020),…
WSNYC Blog: The Latest in Employment Law
Exercising Your First Amendment Right in the Midst of Social Change
The deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, among many others at the hands of police, have motivated a series of social change. More people have become aware of injustices…
Simple Justice
Worth A Thousand Words
When writing about her coverage of the Portland riots, Nancy Rommelmann made a point that journalists who weren’t on the “trusted” list were told they weren’t allowed to film. “YOU’RE…
Lawline Blog
Remembering America’s Protest Pioneers
By Sarah Mills
Ask the average American which rights are guaranteed by The First Amendment, and the answer may surprise you. The one everyone gets is freedom of speech. Some might add freedom…
Media Law Prof Blog
Goldman on How Section 230 Enhances the First Amendment @ericgoldman
Eric Goldman, Santa Clara University School of Law, has published How Section 230 Enhances the First Amendment in the American Constitutional Society Issue Brief (2020). Here is the abstract.This Issue…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Court Dismisses Claims Against D.C. Over “Black Lives Matter” Street Mural
[caption id="attachment_2728" align="alignleft" width="320"] D.C.'s Black Lives Matter street mural. Source: CNN.[/caption] Late last month, a federal district court in Washington, D.C. dismissed First Amendment and other constitutional claims filed…
The Right Coast
A First-Amendment Case for Freedom from the Woke Religion – New Discourses
The question of whether or not the worldview and practice for practice it intentionally is going variously by the names Social Justice, Critical Social Justice, or, more colloquially, Woke constitutes…
EHS Law Insights
California challenging recent district court decision to limit Proposition 65 warnings on First Amendment ‘compelled speech’ grounds
By Todd O. Maiden, Eric Schmoll
We recently reported on a potentially seminal California court decision that struck down Proposition 65 warning requirements for a consumer product on grounds of “compelled speech.” As anticipated, the State…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
District Court Denies Preliminary Injunction in Philadelphia Homeless Encampment Case
[caption id="attachment_2725" align="alignright" width="320"] A housing encampment along Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. Source: Philly Voice.[/caption] Late last month, a district court in Pennsylvania entered an order denying preliminary injunctive…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Tenth Circuit Strikes Down Oklahoma City Median Restrictions
[caption id="attachment_2722" align="alignright" width="320"] Panhandlers on a street median in Oklahoma City. Source: KGOU.[/caption] Last week, the federal Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that an Oklahoma City…