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Call for Proposals from Senior Vising Research Scholars: Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia
From the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University The Knight Institute welcomes proposals on a rolling basis from scholars interested in collaborating with the Institute on substantial projects relating to…
PrawfsBlawg
Jewish-as-race-or-national-origin
Main Thursday, December 12, 2019Jewish-as-race-or-national-originI have not weighed in on the dispute over the administration's new order on anti-Semitism and Title VI. I do not like the new regs in…
Religion Clause
Supreme Court Review Sought In City Council Speech Limits At Meeting On Mosque
A petition for certiorari (full text) was filed on Dec. 9 with the U.S. Supreme Court in Youkhanna v. City of Sterling Heights. In the case, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
District Judge finds First Amendment Problem with Arkansas “Misrepresentation” of Foods Statute
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawIn an opinion in Turtle Island Foods SPC d/b/a Tofurky Co. v. Soman, Judge Kristine Baker of the Eastern…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Grants Certiorari in First Amendment Challenge to Delaware Constitution’s Judicial Appointment Provision
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawThe United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Adams v. Carney, Governor of Delaware in which the Third Circuit…
Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform
“Cannabis Trademarks and the First Amendment”
The title of this post is the title of this new paper recently posted to SSRN authored by Robert Greenberg. Here is its abstract: A review of Supreme Court trademark…
PrawfsBlawg
Eric Rasmusen, IU, and the First Amendment
Main Monday, November 25, 2019Eric Rasmusen, IU, and the First AmendmentFor those who missed it, Indiana-Bloomington Provost (and law professor) Lauren Robel issued a public statement excoriating business professor Eric…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Lots of comments from SCOTUS on various issues in holiday week order list
Order lists from the Supreme Court so far this Term have been mostly free of short rulings or separate statements from the Justices. But this morning, the Court issued this…
PrawfsBlawg
Protesting Harvard-Yale (Updated)
Main Saturday, November 23, 2019Protesting Harvard-Yale (Updated)The second half of the Harvard-Yale Game was delayed for 48 minutes when students from both schools rushed the field to stage a climate-change…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Seventh Circuit Rebuffs Claim for Pre-Janus Fair-Share Fees
Steven D. Schwinn, University of Illinois John Marshall Law SchoolThe Seventh Circuit earlier this month rejected Mark Janus's claim for retroactive fair-share fees he paid to AFSCME, before the Court…