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Ninth Circuit Dismisses Yahoo Lawsuit For Lack of Ripeness
The Ninth Circuit has reversed and remanded to the lower court to dismiss without prejudice Yahoo's suit against the French civil rights groups La Ligue Contre le Racisme et l'Antisemitisme…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Electronic Frontiers Foundation (EFF) for lawyers defending bloggers
Meg Spohn replied to my post on the need for lawyers to defend bloggers' First Amendment rights. She says the the Electronic Frontiers Foundation (EFF) assists in some matters such…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Lawyers have obligation to defend free speech on blogs
The firing of a DeVry University professor prompted an article in the Denver Post about the First Amendment rights of academic bloggers. Meg Spohn, who has a master's degree from…
Media Law Prof Blog
Turkish Foreign Minister Says Laws May Change
Turkey's Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told media this week that his country's law criminalizing speech that insults the nation has damaged its image and it may eventually be amended, although…
Media Law Prof Blog
Legal Realism, Free Speech and Copyright
David McGowan, University of San Diego School of Law, has published "Some Realism About the Free Speech Critique of Copyright" in volume 74 in the Fordham Law Review. It is…
Media Law Prof Blog
Appellate Court Upholds Dismissal of Charges Against Rappers
A French appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that the rap group Sniper did not break the law by performing songs during an April 2004 concert which contained…
Labor Law Prof Blog
F.I.R.E, William Patterson University, and the Intersection of Employment Discrimination Laws and First Amendment Rights of Religion and Speech
F.I.R.E. (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) has a press release about a Muslim student employee who was accused of sexual harassment when he responded to an unsolicited email by…
Media Law Prof Blog
Free Speech, Higher Ed and Lawsuits
Oregon Refuses to Pay Legal Fees of Law Prof Threatened with Lawsuit Over Law Review ArticleInteresting story in this morning's Inside Higher Ed: Twisting in the Wind.Merle Weiner (Oregon) published…
Legal Ethics and Marketing
Are Cute Puppies Okay?
There’s a lot of reaction to the Supreme Court of Florida decision to sanction lawyers for their use of Pit Bulls in their advertisements, and it ranges from critical to…
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A blog is ‘the press,’ FEC says
The Federal Election Commission today unanimously approved an advisory opinion finding that a blog qualifies for the "press exception" to federal campaign finance law. I have more information on my…