Netflix Staff Apparently Unaware That Dave Chappelle's Comedy Special Would Include Jokes
No one is safe from Chappelle's jokes—but also, everyone is safe from Chappelle's jokes.
No one is safe from Chappelle's jokes—but also, everyone is safe from Chappelle's jokes.
Administrators attempted to force an apology out of a second-year law student whose Federalist Society affiliations and use of the term "trap house" were "triggering" to his peers.
Such libel cases aren't easy to win, but sometimes they can indeed be won.
denial of access to government property, even in a "nonpublic forum" or "limited public forum"
A new short article of mine, calved off my duty-to-take-down-libels article; I'd love to hear feedback, especially suggestions for a clearer title.
The unusually named case is Doe v. Anonymous #1, now pending in Brooklyn state trial court.
"after daring to express unrelated views that, although controversial, happen to be held by a majority of the American public."
Kylee McLaughlin is claiming coaches engaged in "pressure and retaliation ... due to her political beliefs and her reactions to claims of racism," because of the coaches' "political or social justice beliefs, including support for critical race theory, opposition to President Trump, and a belief that white persons like plaintiff are privileged and racist."
Miller had asked the court to issue a temporary restraining order; no, said Judge Emily Hagan (Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas).
Criticism of a foreign country (or at least this foreign country) is now apparently forbidden by Emerson.
"Do you really want to live in a country where government bureaucrats, based on whim and personal preference, can censor whatever they don't like?"
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Supportive letters submitted by the defendant at sentencing can’t remain secret.
"regardless whether the motion [to seal] is opposed or unopposed."
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The policy imposed an additional form of ritual humiliation on a reviled category of people without any plausible public-safety justification.
Joshua Gray was denied a Maine private investigator license on the ground that his past posts erred in criticizing a Maine State Police lieutenant; we’ve filed an amicus brief supporting the petition asking the Supreme Court to review the matter.
The court concluded that the conversation violated a previous order barring the ex-wife "from making any other public allegations against the Petitioner, Joe Stark, on social media (on any platform) or to his employer which may affect Petitioner's reputation or employment."
"New psychological research suggests that trigger warnings do not reduce negative reactions to disturbing material—and may even increase them."
A bill touted as banning "critical race theory" in schools would actually ban a huge array of speech around culture, race, and sex, its sponsor says.
Should I file it in a Gothic font?
Here’s an amicus brief our UCLA First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic just filed, on behalf of the Cato Institute.
Government restrictions on private editorial discretion violate the First Amendment.
Dillon Shane Webb will thus not be able to sue for the alleged violation of his free speech rights.
Robby Soave doesn't like it when social media deplatforms users, but the far bigger threat comes from lawmakers on a mission.
No, law enforcement and school officials cannot order students to remove posts about exposure to the coronavirus.
So holds a district court, concluding that the law is unclear enough that a police officer was entitled to qualified immunity based on his arresting a man for the sticker.
“Defendants may have preferred to keep Marquette County residents ignorant to the possibility of COVID-19 in their community for a while longer, so they could avoid having to field calls from concerned citizens, but that preference did not give them authority to hunt down and eradicate inconvenient Instagram posts.”
An interesting example of libel that harms reputation within a social community, rather than professional or business reputation.
"When ordinary people without legal training receive a demand from a government agency to produce tax returns and evidence justifying their business activities, a natural reaction is some degree of apprehension and defensiveness. Such concern is sensible because the transaction costs of dealing with a government investigation are never zero."
So holds a federal district court.
“Evidence about Penn’s treatment of other tenure candidates will be at the heart of the parties’ arguments.”