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Religion Clause
Naval Base Protesters May Not Raise RFRA or 1st Amendment Defenses
In United States v. Kelly, (SD GA, Oct. 11, 2019), a Georgia federal magistrate judge ruled that seven Catholics who are members of an activist group opposed to nuclear weapons cannot…
Chicago Business Litigation Lawyer Blog
Lawsuit Over Yelp Review Raises Questions of Defamation vs First Amendment Rights
By Peter S. Lubin, Patrick Austermuehle
Online review sites such as Yelp have been the bane of companies’ existence ever since they first started popping up on the internet. While businesses work hard to provide each…
Media Law Prof Blog
Southern Methodist Law Review Forum Open For Responses To Law Review Articles: Engage In the Dialogue! @SMULawReview
The SMU Law Review Forum is inviting responses to its latest issue, The Free Speech Symposium, or to any specific article in it, from interested readers. The editors have made…
Mauck & Baker Blog
Making Headlines for the Gospel
By Mauck Baker
On Wednesday, September 18, Mauck & Baker hosted a press conference in Millennium Park to announce its lawsuit against the City of Chicago on behalf of four Wheaton College students…
Incontestable Blog
Rogers Gets a Rewrite: District Court Modifies First Amendment Analysis for Lanham Act Claims
Since the 1989 case of Rogers v. Grimaldi, 875 F.2d 994 (2d Cir. 1989), courts have applied the Rogers test when an artistic work is alleged to have infringed a…
Incontestable Blog
Rogers Gets a Rewrite: District Court Modifies First Amendment Analysis for Lanham Act Claims
Since the 1989 case of Rogers v. Grimaldi, 875 F.2d 994 (2d Cir. 1989), courts have applied the Rogers test when an artistic work is alleged to have infringed a…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in Criminal Immigration/First Amendment Case
On Friday, the Supreme Court granted certioarari in United States v. Sineneng-Smith, a case from the Ninth Circuit raising the question whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing…
Media Law Prof Blog
Day on Monopolizing Free Speech
Gregory Day, University of Georgia, C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business, is publishing Monopolizing Free Speech in the Fordham Law Review. Here is the abstract.The First Amendment…
Political Law Briefing
New York Nonprofit Donor Disclosure Rules Struck Down
By Lawrence H. Norton, Janice M. Ryan, Lindsay M. Nathan, Ashleigh A. Allione, Ronald M. Jacobs
A federal judge this week struck down on First Amendment grounds two provisions of New York’s lobbying law that would have required nonprofits to disclose their donors. In 2016, New…
Rocky Mountain Sign Law Blog
In Sweeping Ruling, Federal Appeals Court Invalidates Tennessee Billboard Law
Earlier this month, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Tennessee’s outdoor advertising statute, finding it to be content-based in violation of the First Amendment. The court’s ruling affirms…