The Univ. of Pennsylvania legal scholar makes the most thorough critique yet of this approach to justifying regulations that bar social media firms from engaging in most types of content moderation.
The seventh of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
Procedure about procedure about procedure.
The Turkish opposition ran circles around President Recep Tayyib Erdogan's party in local elections. It could be the beginning of the end of his 20-year reign.
"There were many of us who opposed censoring pornography...precisely because of our commitment to feminist goals and principles," says the former ACLU chief.
The sixth of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
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"To the extent that Kavadia asks the Court to order that public reporting about this case be removed from the Internet, such an order would blatantly violate the First Amendment."
The fifth of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
The third of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
The third of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
But lawsuits for libeling the government do not "have any place in the American system of jurisprudence."
"It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will," he claimed.
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I'm against it, whomever it's coming from.
The first of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
But plaintiff's claim that he was retaliated against for raising religious objections to the training, and discriminated against based on religion as to promotion, can go forward.
The psychologist and bestselling author argues that Harvard's free speech policy was so "selectively prosecuted that it became a national joke."
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“Even open democracies have implemented restrictive measures,” finds a global report.
Where these laws allow squatters to occupy houses without the owner's consent, they qualify as takings of private property that require payment of compensation under the Fifth Amendment.
under California statutes that protect private employees' political activity; the plaintiff claimed that "[s]he listened to speeches being made and walked to the Capitol, and then she left," and "did not participate in any rioting."
Prof. Hamburger continues to conflate coercion and voluntary choice.
Round 3 in the debate between Hamburger and Somin over the First Amendment and Murthy
This used to be possible under the old "alienation of affections" tort, but all but a handful of states have abolished it, and the tortious inducement of breach of contract tort can't fill that gap.
Live commentary on the Supreme Court oral argument in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine
The threshold issue in today's oral argument is Article III standing, and that issue should be determinative.
It only took a generation to go from ration cards to exporting electronics.
Prof. Hamburger is wrong to argue that the use of the word "abridgment" implies that noncoercive government persuasion directed at social media firms violates the First Amendment.
The law would require platforms to use invasive measures to prevent most teenagers under 16 from making social media accounts and bar all minors from sexually explicit sites.
Legislators are taking a page from constitutionally dubious state laws that make carry permits highly impractical to use.
Texas is wrong to equate illegal migration and drug smuggling with invasion. If accepted by courts, the argument would set a dangerous precedent.
Modern cars are smartphones on wheels, but with less protection for your data.
Florida appellate courts are pretty good about reversing unconstitutional injunctions against speech (though Florida trial courts seem to be pretty willing to enter such injunctions).
And in the process, it will stifle innovation and competition.
Two class-action lawsuits say Michigan counties take cuts of the exorbitant costs of inmate phone calls while children go months without seeing their parents in person.
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