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Sentencing Law and Policy
SCOTUS dings Ninth Circuit panel for its "takeover of the appeal" of convictions for encouraging illegal immigration
I had not been following that closely the Supreme Court's consideration of the immigration case examining the proper reach of 8 U.S.C. §1324, United States v. Sineneng-Smith, No. 19-67 (S.…
PrawfsBlawg
Courts should not reach out, unless they need to reach out
Main Thursday, May 07, 2020Courts should not reach out, unless they need to reach outSCOTUS reached a strange resolution in United States v. Sineneng-Smith, arising from a conviction of an…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Breaking News: Supreme Court Vacates Ninth Circuit Ruling in First Amendment/Immigration Case
Today, the Supreme Court in United States v. Sineneng-Smith vacated and remanded a case to the Ninth Circuit in which it had struck down on First Amendment grounds a federal…
California Public Agency Labor & Employment Blog
First Amendment Rights During Coronavirus – New Challenges For Government Agencies
By David Urban
Lawyers at our firm have practiced constitutional law for many years, and the coronavirus pandemic has presented circumstances in this area that many of us probably thought we would never…
Race and the Law Prof Blog
Images of Irony
By SpearIt
Recent protests against government stay-home orders in response to the Covid-19 pandemic reveal stark double-standards of privilege and protest. The visuals are dramatic: mobs of possibly infected, armed individuals invading…
The Right Coast
Center for American Liberty Sues Gov. Newsom over Church Ban – The Center For American Liberty
Criminalizing individual participation at a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or other house of worship clearly violates the First Amendment, said Harmeet K. Dhillon, Chief Executive Officer for the Center for…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
Federal Court in New Mexico Denies Temporary Restraining Order in First Amendment Challenge to COVID-19 Restrictions
[caption id="attachment_2707" align="alignright" width="320"] Legacy Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Source: Legacy Church.[/caption] Last week, in one of the first judicial decisions addressing a First Amendment challenge to state-level social…
Broadcast Law Blog
FCC Denies Application of Hoax Rule to Trump Press Conferences on COVID-19 – Looking at the First Amendment and the Commission’s Regulation of Political Speech
Recently, FCC staff dismissed a request by the organization Free Press asking the FCC to investigate the broadcast of the President’s press conferences on the coronavirus and programs where commentators…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Anti-abortion protesters continue to gather at clinics despite stay at home orders
April 21, 2020As states impose social distancing requirements and emergency measures to ensure adequate medical resources to combat COVID-19, several states are taking the opportunity to ban abortions. Yet anti-abortion…
Media Law Prof Blog
Post and Rothman on The First Amendment and the Right(s) of Publicity @profrothman
Robert Post, Yale Law School, and Jennifer E. Rothman, Loyola (Los Angeles) Law School, are publishing The First Amendment and the Right(s) of Publicity in volume 130 of the Yale…