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Media Law Prof Blog
Applications Open For UVA Legal Fellowship, First Amendment Clinic, University of Virginia School of Law
The First Amendment Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, in partnership with the Reporters Committee, is hiring a legal fellow for the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 academic years.…
Drug & Device Law
Looks Like A Slim, But Solid, First Amendment Majority
By Bexis
We’ve been watching the evolution of the Supreme Court’s thinking on First Amendment review of “speaker” and “content” specific prior restraints since we first noticed that emerging doctrine in the…
PrawfsBlawg
Anti-SLAPP law does not apply in Second Circuit
Main Wednesday, July 15, 2020Anti-SLAPP law does not apply in Second CircuitThe Second Circuit has joined the chorus holding that state anti-SLAPP laws (in that case, California's) do not apply…
The Traklight Blog
Call of Duty Wins Case Over Trademark Use on First Amendment Grounds
By Mike Willee
Verisimilitude in video games is a relatively new issue, and as seen in the case brought by Lebron James' tattoo artist against NBA2K, it brings with it a host of…
Media Law Prof Blog
Zick on The First Amendment In the Trump Era @WMLawSchool
Timothy Zick, William & Mary Law School, has published The First Amendment in the Trump Era. Here is the abstract.This is a draft of the Introduction to my book, The…
PrawfsBlawg
Justice Kagan’s Warring Views on the Religion Clauses
Main Wednesday, July 08, 2020Justice Kagan’s Warring Views on the Religion ClausesToday (Wednesday) the Supreme Court decided two cases involving questions of law and religious rights: Our Lady of Guadalupe…
Consumer Class Defense Blog
A Fractured Supreme Court Strikes Down and Severs the TCPA’s Government Debt Exemption, Leaving the Rest of the Statute Intact
By Jordan Vick, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Yesterday, a divided Supreme Court issued a plurality opinion in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc. (“Political Consultants”) striking down and severing a 2015 amendment to the TCPA,…
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Supreme Court Invalidates TCPA Government-Debt Exception
Today, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, which addressed the constitutionality of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Although the Court splintered…
NextGen Financial Services Report
TCPA Protection Against Robocalls Upheld. Did the Supreme Court Sacrifice the Right of Free Speech For the Sake of Rescuing a Bad Statute?
By Laura C. Baucus, Erin A. Sedmak
In a closely monitored case, the U.S. Supreme Court today upheld the restriction on robocalls under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) of 1991 but struck the Act’s government debt-collection…
PrawfsBlawg
Notes on Barr v. AAPC
Main Monday, July 06, 2020Notes on Barr v. AAPCThere is a lot in the Court's decision in Barr v. AAPC, declaring invalid the government-debt exception (enacted in 2015) to the…