Ban on Broadcasting Court's Own Recordings of Criminal Hearings Likely Unconstitutional
The Fourth Circuit holds that Maryland's ban must be subject to strict scrutiny, a test that the prohibition is highly unlikely to satisfy.
The Fourth Circuit holds that Maryland's ban must be subject to strict scrutiny, a test that the prohibition is highly unlikely to satisfy.
It's wrong for politicians to suppress important debates in schools. Instead let families have more control of their kids' educations.
A new decision from the Georgia Court of Appeals.
The law would make a federal case out of every aggrieved internet user and compel companies to host messages they do not wish to platform.
If this doubly punitive anti-press maneuver sounds familiar, that's because it keeps happening, including to Reason.
Americans oppose restrictions, but report feeling less free to speak about political matters.
The three-judge panel struck down the statute by a 2-to-1 vote, but now the entire Eighth Circuit will consider the case en banc.
This violates the First Amendment, I think; the government generally may not discriminatorily terminate (or refuse to renew) contracts based on the contractors' speech on matters of public concern.
Plus: America's love-hate relationship with booze, Twitter CEO says "bitcoin changes absolutely everything," and more...
I don't know the correct level of content moderation by Facebook, Twitter, Google, or Amazon, and neither do you.
The creator of ultra-woke poet Titania McGrath makes the case against cancel culture.
"Stanford Law School is strongly committed to free speech," says Dean Jenny S. Martinez, who wants to "ensure that something like this does not happen again."
The university investigated a law school student for mocking the Federalist Society, putting his diploma on hold until yesterday.
The creator of Titania McGrath on cancel culture, government overreach, and younger generations' willingness to censor
Perhaps the ignominious end to Brian Buglio's career will alert thin-skinned cops to the perils of trying to punish people for constitutionally protected speech.
Dentons US LLP sought to “initiate a civil case under seal by filing a petition to confirm an emergency arbitration award.”
Defendants had said Klayman "'could be the single worst lawyer in America,' has 'never actually won a courtroom victory in his life,' and is an 'idiot' and an 'egomaniac,'" and that "Corsi he seemed to mentally be extremely degraded to the point of what I would call dementia."
A future Miranda warning for litigants? "I wish the SDNY pro se clinic had made me aware that many third-party commercial services download court documents ... and publish this information on the internet."
No, says a district court at first; yes, it says six days later. Always good to check the docket for follow-up orders, if you have the time.
can go forward, as a First Amendment retaliation claim, holds a federal judge.
“The Act is so rife with fundamental infirmities that it appears to have been enacted without any regard for the Constitution,” the lawsuit reads.
A Tennessee trial court "enjoined the parties [including a recent candidate for elected office] from making any public comments about each other and from making any 'negative or disrespectful comments' about each other to third parties."
if it's done without adequate investigation, and as a means of retaliating against the teenager's parent.
at least through discovery and until the motion for summary judgment; Netflix’s motion to dismiss has been denied.
I much enjoyed being on this American Constitution Society chapter panel.
Two Illinois legislators meet with a high school principal complaining about an anti-China poster distributed by a student group, which promptly loses its faculty sponsor and has to
Remember, the lawyer’s true superpower is to turn every question into a question about procedure.
by limiting it to exclude people who sincerely believed the material wasn't revenge porn (i.e., the participants had agreed that it be publicly released).
Umbrellas, black clothing, and chanting "all cops are bastards" signal criminal street gang membership, prosecutors said.
Special bonus connections: disbarred lawyers, Tupac Shakur, New York City political figures, and then-not-yet-Attorney-General Michael Mukasey.
The line between commercial decisions and advocacy is not as clear as opponents of anti-Israel boycotts suggest.
The lawsuit stemmed from CNN's coverage of Dershowitz's argument in the first Trump impeachment trial.
Yet "[i]t is particularly troubling to the Court that [the lawyer] appears to have survived this motion more by dumb luck than any concerted effort on his part to comply with either his professional responsibilities or the orders of this Court."
(Lolicon is "A Japanese term derived from the English phrase 'Lolita complex,' lolicon describes a fascination with cartoons of very young-looking girls engaged in varying degrees of erotic behavior.")
But people have as much right to protest vaccination sites as they do to protest factories, stores, or abortion clinics.