The professor, the chair of the Central Michigan University journalism department, was teaching a media law class, and quoted a case that discussed the use of the word "nigger" at public universities.
... and, fortunately for me, not playing chess.
holds the Second Circuit in a case rejecting a libel lawsuit over a blog post headline.
The decision vividly illustrates how the doctrine shields police from accountability for using excessive force.
The NYPD is still blaming jail releases, but the data simply doesn’t back that claim up.
Seeking maximal punishment for a nonviolent offense will not help the Black Lives Matter movement.
I was one of the 153 signers and am a veteran of the Twitter wars. But even I was taken aback by the swift, virulent response.
But buried beneath the bilious response to the Harper's joint statement is a worthwhile argument about freedom of association.
The judicially invented license for police abuse undermines the rule of law and the separation of powers.
Posted at the Harper's Magazine site.
"Supreme Court jurisprudence...is heavily weighted against you," an appeals judge told state prosecutors last week.
keeps in place the rest of the law banning robocalls to cell phones.
This deadly and contagious disease has exposed problems with prison systems that have been ignored for decades.
Chicago used its food licensing laws to harass a nonprofit providing free food to protesters.
The redefinition of the term diminishes actual victims of violence and trivializes why people are protesting.
Straka loses on his discrimination, cyberbullying, defamation, and breach of contract claims.
Fitness centers across the state are turning up the resistance to lockdown orders.
Plaintiff had sufficiently alleged that the defendant didn't just create the list as a platform for others, but herself posted material about him -- though whether plaintiff ultimately prevails will depend on what discovery reveals.
The legislation cuts lots of red tape surrounding the visa process.
"While Ms. Trump unquestionably possesses the same First Amendment expressive rights belonging to all Americans, she also possesses the right to enter into contracts, including the right to contract away her First Amendment rights." One precedent supporting that proposition: Another Trump v. Trump, a 1992 case involving Ivana Trump and Donald Trump.
Washington, D.C.'s writing "Black Lives Matter" on a street and letting others paint "Defund the Police" next to it doesn't require D.C. to let others paint messages on other streets.
Plus: Tech giants will testify in Congressional antitrust hearing, Seattle police clear out CHOP, and more...
So says a Third Circuit panel, though other circuits disagree.
This one focuses on student groups that get funding from public colleges, but it's an unconstitutional viewpoint-based restriction.
Seattle police have arrested dozens of protesters during their sweep of the so-called Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.
The answer speaks volumes about the extent to which that doctrine protects police officers from liability for outrageous conduct.
The Souls of Yellow Folk author says a new "elite consensus" fixated on racial outrage is forming and may destroy our ability to function.
Plus: More (bad, weird, and occasionally good) new state laws that start taking effect today.
"Hate speech" would be defined as an intentional "insulting statement about a group of persons because of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity or physical, mental or intellectual disability."
The media and activists are using revisionist history of the Stonewall Riots to fit their intersectional narrative.
Can the government compel speech? For Supreme Court justices, that seems to depend on the content of that speech.
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America certainly has work to do on race, but ritual and symbolic acts aren't the way forward.
"[The Oberlin] panel's decision was arguably inexplicable. Per the terms of Oberlin's Policy, intoxication does not negate consent—only 'incapacitation' does.... And the record here provided no apparent basis for a finding that Roe [was incapacitated]."
Roberts dissented in 2016 when SCOTUS struck down an abortion law. What changed this time around?
The Chief Justice provides the pivotal vote in the June Medical Services abortion case and Seila Law v. CFPB.
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