Auto-post still buggy, but it's being worked on; hope to have daily open threads working well shortly.
Something is amiss with our new daily auto-post feature, so I'm manually posting the thread today.
The deadline (Nov. 18) is approaching, so I thought I'd repost this.
So argues a concurring opinion in today's Second Circuit decision in Leroy v. Livingston Manor Central School Dist., also speaking about speech that "callously cheer[s] on or condone[s]" "police brutality, ... religiously-motivated attacks on their houses of worship, sexual or gender-based violence, or any other type of targeted state or private violence."
So holds the Second Circuit: "Tying a student speaker's constitutional right to free expression solely to the reaction that speech garners from upset or angry listeners cannot be squared with [First Amendment] principles."
What's on your mind? (Sorry for the delay posting this today.)
Don't assume your firm is safe.
The speaker's comments, the Virginia Court of Appeals held, "comments constitute non-actionable opinions based on fully disclosed facts."
"Allah does not forget, however. This is how people earn their final place in the [h]ereafter."
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