Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and Common Carriers: Response to Adam Candeub
If adopted by the Supreme Court, Prof. Candeub's approach would be a grave menace to freedom of speech.
If adopted by the Supreme Court, Prof. Candeub's approach would be a grave menace to freedom of speech.
(as well as other allegations).
Officials claim the policy is intended to prevent people from smuggling in contraband, but it allows shipments from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
The cases on the subject are sharply split, reflecting how ill-defined the law of pseudonymous litigation is.
The final article posted from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
The eleventh of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
Last year, the offices of the Marion County Record were raided by police. A new lawsuit claims the search was illegal retaliation against the paper.
The civil liberties lawyer talks to Reason about the misguided impulse to attack free speech in the name of protecting women.
The tenth of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
The ninth of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
The eighth of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
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The Univ. of Pennsylvania legal scholar makes the most thorough critique yet of this approach to justifying regulations that bar social media firms from engaging in most types of content moderation.
The seventh of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
Procedure about procedure about procedure.
"There were many of us who opposed censoring pornography...precisely because of our commitment to feminist goals and principles," says the former ACLU chief.
The sixth of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
"To the extent that Kavadia asks the Court to order that public reporting about this case be removed from the Internet, such an order would blatantly violate the First Amendment."
The fifth of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
The third of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
The third of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
But lawsuits for libeling the government do not "have any place in the American system of jurisprudence."
"It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will," he claimed.
I'm against it, whomever it's coming from.
The first of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
But plaintiff's claim that he was retaliated against for raising religious objections to the training, and discriminated against based on religion as to promotion, can go forward.
The psychologist and bestselling author argues that Harvard's free speech policy was so "selectively prosecuted that it became a national joke."
“Even open democracies have implemented restrictive measures,” finds a global report.
under California statutes that protect private employees' political activity; the plaintiff claimed that "[s]he listened to speeches being made and walked to the Capitol, and then she left," and "did not participate in any rioting."
Prof. Hamburger continues to conflate coercion and voluntary choice.
Round 3 in the debate between Hamburger and Somin over the First Amendment and Murthy
This used to be possible under the old "alienation of affections" tort, but all but a handful of states have abolished it, and the tortious inducement of breach of contract tort can't fill that gap.
Prof. Hamburger is wrong to argue that the use of the word "abridgment" implies that noncoercive government persuasion directed at social media firms violates the First Amendment.
Florida appellate courts are pretty good about reversing unconstitutional injunctions against speech (though Florida trial courts seem to be pretty willing to enter such injunctions).
The lottery winner is suing an ex-girlfriend based on a non-disclosure agreement aimed at concealing his identity. (The intervention, at this point, is aimed at just unsealing various sealed documents in the case, not at disclosing the parties' names.)