A relatively novel suggestion, aimed at providing libel defendants with the necessary First Amendment protections while still giving libel plaintiffs protection early in the litigation process.
Does current precedent forbidding discrimination on the basis of sex-based stereotypes apply here?
Right after 290 people were killed in a series of Easter Sunday bombings
Plus: Violence in Sri Lanka leads to social media suppression, and the White House wants to make it harder for pretrial diversion participants to get government jobs.
That's the legal theory behind a case just filed by prosecutors in Ohio.
PBS documentary illustrates two sides pushing even further apart.
I'm continuing to serialize my forthcoming Penn Law Review article on Anti-Libel Injunctions.
Protesters said it was "absolutely, unequivocally" not their intention to shut down Legutko. The administration panicked anyway.
Should the availability of anti-libel injunctions turn on the subject matter of the false and defamatory speech that's being enjoined?
Mayor Pete pitches a vague policy as a cure to help fix "the lack of social cohesion" that he says defines contemporary America.
The owner of a clothing line asks the Supreme Court to overturn the ban on "scandalous" trademarks because it violates the First Amendment.
The case drew support from rappers like Killer Mike, Chance the Rapper, and Meek Mill.
"Feeling cute, might just gas some inmates today, IDK."
Subreddits on sexual themes will also be banned from running ads.
This is the key proposal from my forthcoming Penn Law Review article on Anti-Libel Injunctions -- a way of taming the anti-libel injunction to include important First Amendment procedural protections, but still allow its use to prevent genuine libels.
Plus: Trump shows true colors on Yemen, U.K. sets a date for new porn rules, and scientists say we may be in a new geological epoch.
Facebook would prosper in a less robust market.
Freedom of the press is not limited to "legitimate journalists."
Nancy Pelosi wants to gut Section 230
I'm continuing to serialize my forthcoming Penn Law Review article on Anti-Libel Injunctions.
Journalism is at risk not just from government but from media types who see their jobs as protecting the powerful from embarrassment.
I'm continuing to serialize my forthcoming Penn Law Review article on Anti-Libel Injunctions.
The East St. Louis Housing Authority stipulates to allowing residents to possess guns.
The organization objects to gun restrictions only if they impinge on other constitutional provisions.
Plus: Christians and bureaucrats versus Tarot in Virginia, and Democratic candidates on restoring voting rights to prisoners
The Chattanooga Police Department is at the center of another excessive force lawsuit.
"Sharing our completely legal weekend activities on Snapchat should not result three days of in-school suspensions," Cody Conroy told Reason.
I'm continuing to serialize my forthcoming Penn Law Review article on Anti-Libel Injunctions.
They say the social media companies display a bias against conservatives.
Censorship continues to be about empowering those in charge.
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I thought I'd serialize my forthcoming Penn Law Review article on Anti-Libel Injunctions; here is the section on criminal libel law -- the article argues that anti-libel injunctions are like mini-criminal-libel laws.
Episode 3 of Free Speech Rules, starring UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
The House version of the reauthorization bill includes new gun restrictions that sweep too broadly.
The online fashion magazine warns readers that Strange Planet's Nathan Pyle is maybe pro-life and "we should be more careful with what we're sharing."
My new article, forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review late this year -- I'd love to get feedback, while there's still plenty of time to edit it.
A Southern officeholder gains little from pushing for a right to post-delivery abortion.
The ACLU wants the Supreme Court to revisit the notorious qualified immunity doctrine.
Will a thirst to punish Silicon Valley destroy our liberty?
Maybe people are just playing to escape all the Brexit news?
In a now-deleted Facebook post, Loudoun County deputies brag about a drug bust, get dragged, and likely don't learn any lessons.
An allegedly bogus dossier on plaintiff was sent by defendant to a third party in 2003 -- and then hit the news in 2017. Can plaintiff sue for libel?
That's what Christiane Amanpour asked former FBI Director James Comey.
New York cops and the president arbitrarily turn legal products into contraband.
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