When Fighting 'Misinformation' Is Really Fighting Free Speech
There is no "fake news" exception to the First Amendment.
There is no "fake news" exception to the First Amendment.
Today's item in Prof. McWhorter's substack newsletter, "It Bears Mentioning." (I just subscribed, for $60 for the year, though you can also subscribe for $5/month.)
The opposition to Southlake's plan was understandable.
The case is Pacira BioSciences v. American Society of Anesthesiologists, a trade libel lawsuit filed over journal articles and other publications questioning the efficacy of Pacira's pain-killer Exparel.
Police arrested and charged Joshua Garton with harassment for posting a photoshopped picture of two men urinating on a police officer's grave.
Detective Vincent Cheung is suing Terrell Harper.
"[Daniel] Pollack-Pelzner ... is [also] one of many Linfield faculty members and students who have pushed back against the allegedly poor handling of sexual abuse and [harassment] claims by the administration."
The Supreme Court weighs the power of school officials to punish students for off-campus speech.
Plus: 15,000 marijuana prosecutions pardoned, the latest sex trafficking urban legend, and more...
The article is co-written by Prof. Randall Kennedy (Harvard), a leading scholar of race and the law, and me.
If you're going to attack Mark Zuckerberg for cozying up to Xi Jinping, maybe you should try harder not to sound like a Chinese dictator.
with Center head Jeffrey Rosen; Katie Fallow, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute; and me.
So the New York intermediate appellate court held yesterday, by a 3-2 vote.
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By invoking the magic of good intentions, the Times justifies the U.S. acting like Russia and China.
Judge Stephanos Bibas "does not see how" he can follow the plurality opinion
An interesting conversation I had with UMass law professor (and associate dean) Shaun Spencer, organized by the UMass Law Federalist Society.
Now 14 states have legislation explicitly protecting free speech on campus.
"The notion that a school can discipline a student for that kind of...non-harassing expression is contrary to our First Amendment tradition."
Unsurprisingly, the court also refuses to order private caselaw repositories and search engines to hide the information.
Among other things, it calls for online censorship to shield identities of public officials and lets the governor control city police budgets.
Pacira Biosciences' redacted brief supporting the motion for the preliminary injunction is now available—but it says nothing about the First Amendment, or about how the injunction could escape the prior restraint doctrine.
Remember when Republicans believed private businesses had a right to exercise free speech?
Pacira Biosciences, Inc. is suing over allegedly "false and misleading statements made about EXPAREL, a pain medication drug."
if it's used as an attempt to get a settlement, the Ninth Circuit rules .
Leveling that grave accusation at every aspect of American life will produce disengagement, alienation, and reaction.
The mandatory online training requires users to select the “right” speech before they finish.
"Terror and dread fill academic workers, professors, and staff alike, and it is everywhere."
It all depends on where you are.
"Categories, microworks, and market circularity."