even when plaintiff's lawsuit was connected to her having been allegedly sexually assaulted, which has often (but not always) been seen as a basis for allowing pseudonymity.
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The court concludes that this justification doesn't generally let plaintiffs sue pseudonymously in libel or disclosure of private facts that seek damages.
But the court insisted that the alleged leaker file identifying information under seal with the court, notwithstanding the alleged leaker's claim that the court computers could be hacked.
"We are adamant that the hiring committee...not extend a job offer to Dr. Yoel Inbar," reads the petition.
If you can't force a web designer to serve a gay wedding, can you force a web platform to serve a politician?
The speech compulsion it forbids is not limited to wedding-website designers who object to same-sex marriage, but its principles should apply only to a narrow range of commercial products
Submit them to the Journal of Free Speech Law; we'll tell you within 14 days whether we'll accept the submission, and then we can publish it very quickly, if you'd like.
The decision reverses a terrible previous decision by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
including when the requirement is imposed by antidiscrimination laws, for instance when such laws require web site designers who create opposite-sex wedding sites create same-sex wedding sites.
The environmentalist and anti-vaccine activist talks about his presidential run and whether he'd jail climate change skeptics.
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"consciously disregarded a substantial risk that his communications would be viewed as threatening violence."
The Eleventh Circuit therefore avoids deciding whether such laws are constitutional.
alleging the accuser lied in the proceedings can thus go forward, holds the Connecticut Supreme Court.
"that which may be immediately or remotely interpreted as demeaning or belittling to him" struck down as unconstitutionally vague.
It should be obvious that drag performances are protected by the First Amendment, but that hasn't kept government officials from trying to ban them.
Just published as part of the symposium on Media and Society After Technological Disruption, edited by Profs. Justin "Gus" Hurwitz & Kyle Langvardt.
Spiked's leading polemicist defends J.K. Rowling, Brexit, and Enlightenment values of free speech and pluralism.
We once ranked No. 4 in the world, according to the Heritage Foundation. Now we're 25th.
The answer's more complicated than you might think.
Just published as part of the symposium on Media and Society After Technological Disruption, edited by Profs. Justin "Gus" Hurwitz & Kyle Langvardt.
Just published as part of the symposium on Media and Society After Technological Disruption, edited by Profs. Justin "Gus" Hurwitz & Kyle Langvardt.
Just published as part of the symposium on Media and Society After Technological Disruption, edited by Profs. Justin "Gus" Hurwitz & Kyle Langvardt.
Just published as part of the symposium on Media and Society After Technological Disruption, edited by Profs. Justin "Gus" Hurwitz & Kyle Langvardt.
notwithstanding the First Amendment.
Just published as part of the symposium on Media and Society After Technological Disruption, edited by Profs. Justin "Gus" Hurwitz & Kyle Langvardt.
Her arrest may have been retaliation for her involvement in a lawsuit against the local police department.
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