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Constitutional Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Finds Exception in Robocalls Prohibition Statute Violates First Amendment
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn its opinion in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants the United States Supreme Court held a provision…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Lawsuit: DOJ’s ‘Prior Restraint’ Rule Allegedly Silencing Immigration Judges Violates First Amendment
The Trump administration has taken steps that allegedly undermine the independence of the nation's immigration judges. And the judges are pushing back. Here is the latest.The National Association of Immigration…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Agency for International Development and Corporate Separateness
This week, the Supreme Court released a couple opinions of interest in the nonprofit world. The first was Agency for International Development. Background on the case: in 2003, Congress allocated billions of…
PrawfsBlawg
Third Circuit: Tinker does not apply off-campus
Main Tuesday, June 30, 2020Third Circuit: Tinker does not apply off-campusThe Third Circuit held Tuesday that Mahanoy (PA) Area H.S.* violated the First Amendment by suspending a student (identified as…
Simple Justice
No Football In Kansas
It was a lame joke. It was racist. It was offensive. And to add insult to injury, it had already been done before, and so wasn’t even novel. But Kansas…
Close-Ups
First Amendment Protects True-Crime Show From Negligence Liability
By Lee S. Brenner, Shantel H. Asada
A Texas Court of Appeals recently affirmed the dismissal of a case against Kirkstall Road Enterprises (Kirkstall), the production company behind the true-crime show The First 48, holding that Kirkstall…
Consumer products law blog
Federal court says Prop 65 warnings for glyphosate violate the First Amendment
On June 22, 2020, Judge William Shubb of the US District Court for the Eastern District of California entered an order prohibiting the State of California from requiring Prop 65…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Rejects First Amendment Claim of Foreign Affiliate Organizations
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn its opinion in Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International — or what will be…
PrawfsBlawg
Anti-racism and the First Amendment
Main Friday, June 26, 2020Anti-racism and the First AmendmentJaden McNeil is a student at Kansas State and the head of America First Students, an organization that believes Turning Point USA…
PrawfsBlawg
Mootness, departmentalism, and universality
Main Friday, June 26, 2020Mootness, departmentalism, and universalityHere is an interesting mootness decision from the Third Circuit (written by Judge Bibas). A lot of good discussion of mootness, as it…