Federal district court holds that the First Amendment sharply limits restrictions on such professional-client speech, at least when the speech doesn’t involve “prescribing medication or reaching a diagnosis.”
Things are far from completely clear. But Justice Gorsuch's opinion may give preenforcement challenges to SB 8 and other similar laws a good deal more wiggle room than many think.
The Court allowed claims against health care regulators to proceed, but that will not prevent the private civil actions authorized by the law.
District Court Judge David Peeples focused on the law's "unique and unprecedented" enforcement mechanism rather than abortion rights.
In a significant threat to the free press, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces decades in federal prison for leaking classified documents.
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The Court rules that the lawsuit against SB 8 can proceed by targeting state licensing officials. But the implications for future cases are far from completely clear.
There's no general federal right to them; they are often available when a law is enforced by government officials, but generally not as to laws in which private citizens sue (whether over abortion, speech, religious exercise, gun ownership or sales, or anything else).
The private litigation against some defendants may proceed, but the federal lawsuit is gone.
The ruling is mostly based on the Texas state constitution and probably will not affect the federal case challenging SB 8, currently before the Supreme Court. But it makes some notable points, nonetheless.
The organization's embrace of a wide-ranging progressive agenda undermines its reason for existing.
The change stems from a First Amendment case brought by the Institute for Justice, a leading libertarian public interest law firm.
“The Very Reverend Georges F. de Laire, J.C.L., who serves as the Judicial Vicar and the Vicar for Canonical Affairs for the Diocese of Manchester, brings a defamation claim against Gary Michael Voris, Anita Carey, and St. Michael’s Media, Inc. a/k/a Church Militant.”
Flagging some interesting blog posts on the question.
though an arbitrator reduced this to a 40-day suspension.
In 2021, the institutional rot and dysfunction at Rikers Island cascaded into a full-blown catastrophe.
Malinda Harris’ ordeal shows how easily the government can take innocent people’s property under civil forfeiture laws.
WhatsApp and iMessage are not as private as you might think.
Plus: A reminder to Bill de Blasio of what "incentive" really means
"The undersigned finds that despite Mr. Caggiano's belief that his post makes an important point [criticizing] Bernie Sanders, the undersigned finds that it can be logically read to be patently offensive, discriminatory, and degrading to women."
Absent Roe, current Supreme Court precedent likely gives the federal government considerable power to either restrict or protect abortion rights. But that precedent could potentially be limited in ways advocated by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, an unlikely potential savior of abortion rights!
"The letter condemns Satel for having 'the audacity to challenge Reverend Al Sharpton, an exemplary individual and activist.'"
Harvey, who died last week, dedicated his life to supporting human pleasure along with the power to manage it responsibly.
The conversation will be about Prof. Strossen's Journal of Free Speech Law article, "The Interdependence of Racial Justice and Free Speech for Racists," and it will be with Profs. Jane Bambauer, Ash Bhagwat, and me.
A discussion with Prof. RonNell Andersen Jones (Utah), two noted media lawyers and clinical teachers (Prof. Dale Cohen, UCLA, and Prof. Gregg Leslie, Arizona State), and me about this forthcoming Journal of Free Speech Law article.
The district court decision upholding the ATF's conclusion that bump stocks constitute unlawful "machine guns" is upheld by an equally divided court.
Our videos make the case for "Free Minds and Free Markets" to millions of people a year.
Gov. Greg Abbott attacks First Amendment rights in the name of defending them.
Why give legacy media a stranglehold over information that Twitter at its best is great for sharing?
“All of those…just come out of Lochner.”
So much for education being a universal human right.
Plus: SCOTUS hears oral arguments in landmark abortion case, supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages are holding back economic growth, and more...
The law is unconstitutional as written—but it has also been used by prosecutors far beyond its specific terms.
My testimony today before a House Subcommittee on Communications & Technology hearing on proposed revisions to § 230.
My testimony today before a House Subcommittee on Communications & Technology hearing on proposed revisions to § 230.
My testimony today before a House Subcommittee on Communications & Technology hearing on proposed revisions to § 230.
My testimony today before a House Subcommittee on Communications & Technology hearing on proposed revisions to § 230.
My testimony today before a House Subcommittee on Communications & Technology hearing on proposed revisions to § 230.
The justices may find it difficult to uphold Mississippi's abortion ban without overturning Roe v. Wade.
The oft-heard argument that something isn't "written in the Constitution" is not as compelling as it might seem. Sometimes, it's outright false.
"Given the charged atmosphere concerning vaccinations and vaccine mandates, and for the other reasons discussed above, the Court is persuaded that this is the rare case where a party should be permitted to proceed pseudonymously."
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