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FAN 160.1 (First Amendment News) Ballard Spahr and Levine Sullivan Koch &...
Press Release: Am Law 100 firm Ballard Spahr and Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz (LSKS)—the preeminent First Amendment and media law boutique in the United States—announced today that they have...
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FAN 162 (First Amendment News) Online First Amendment Encyclopedia Launched
Given our increasingly polarized society, it’s important to remember what should unite us: respect for freedom of speech, press, religion, and the right to assemble and petition. — Ken Paulson (Sept....
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FAN 164 (First Amendment News) 1917 Masses Case to be Reargued in Second...
On November 6th the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, in association with The First Amendment Salons, the Floyd Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression at Yale Law School, and the Media Law...
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FAN 165 (First Amendment News) Major New First Amendment News, Analysis &...
Prof. Stephen Solomon (credit: Sarah Solomon) If you are interested in the First Amendment, be prepared to bookmark an invaluable new site: First Amendment Watch. This news, anlysis and history...
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FAN 165.1 (First Amendment News) New FIRE Report — Majority of college...
This from a just-released report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE): PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 11, 2017 — A new report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education finds a...
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FAN 165.2 (First Amendment News) Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten court...
Judge Learned Hand’s order granting the temporary injunction against the postmaster and ordering the magazine transmitted through the mails “without delay” was dated July 26, two days after the...
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FAN 166 (First Amendment News) Deleted Passages: VA ACLU abandons key...
[Earlier this month] a representative from the American Civil Liberties Union saw her chance to speak about the First Amendment squashed by students chagrined by the actions of her employer. —...
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Kozinski reviews new book — THE JUDGE: 26 MACHIAVELLIAN LESSONS
Judge Alex Kozinski (credit: The Recorder) So you thought a judge’s job is to be fair and impartial? To renounce personal gain? To have no agenda? According to Ronald K.L. Collins and David M. Skover...
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FAN 167.2 (First Amendment Law) Campus Speech Debate Continues: Prof. Post...
Yesterday, I posted Will Creeley’s Free Speech on Campus: A Response to Robert Post. Mr. Creeley’s piece was in response to a forthcoming article by Professor Post titled The Classic First Amendment...
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FAN 167.3 (First Amendment News) Campus Speech Debate Continues: Enter Nadine...
Below is the text of the written testimony presented by New York Law School Professor Nadine Strossen to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on “EXPLORING FREE SPEECH ON COLLEGE...
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FAN 168 (First Amendment News) Resolution of wedding cake case — is it all...
With oral arguments set for December 5th in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the central arguments in the case may have less to do with the law and more to do with the...
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FAN 168.1 (First Amendment News) Prof. Alan Morrison Weighs in on Facts Issue...
Earlier today I posted an issue of First Amendment News entited Resolution of wedding cake case — is it all about fashioning the facts? In resposne to that, Professor Alan Morrison wrote to me...
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FAN 169 (First Amendment News) NAACP & other civil rights groups file brief...
A decision from this Court in favor of Masterpiece would require reasoning that would be readily deployed to trample the rights of the most vulnerable people in our society by excusing discrimination...
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FAN 169.1 (First Amendment News) FIRE calls on Brandeis President to reinvite...
disclosure: I was one of the signatories to this letter to Brandeis University’s President. → Press release from Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: An open letter to Brandeis regarding the...
View ArticleFAN 169.2 (First Amendment News) Court grants cert. in three free speech...
As listed below, the Roberts Court has rendered rulings in 44 free-speech First Amendment cases. And its eagerness to decide such cases continues. Earlier today, the Court granted cert. in three more...
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FAN 170 (First Amendment News) Masses case “reargued” in 2nd Circuit — Floyd...
Kathleen Sullivan, Ron Collins, Floyd Abrams & Lee Levine What follows is a short article by Professor Thomas Healy based on a “reargument” of Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten (2nd Cir., 1917),...
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Q & A re THE JUDGE by Collins & Skover: “When ‘Machiavellian’ is a Compliment”
This from Andrew Hamm over at SCOTUSblog: “Ask the authors: When ‘Machiavellian’ is a compliment”: The following is a series of questions on the occasion of the publication of Ronald Collins and David...
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FAN 171 (First Amendment News) Masterpiece Cakeshop Case: Oral Argument...
The tone and nature of Kennedy’s questions suggest that he is inclined to rule for the baker. But his ruling would effectively still be a win for gay rights laws. Kennedy can hold that CADA itself —...
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FAN 171.1 (First Amendment News) Met Refuses to Remove 1938 “Offensive”...
Throughout his career, Balthus rejected the usual conventions of the art world. . . Prime Ministers and rock stars alike attended the funeral of Balthus. Bono, lead-singer of U2, sang for the hundreds...
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FAN 172 (First Amendment News) Books Issue — 15 New or Forthcoming Titles
Prof. Jerome Barron It began nearly a quarter-century ago with the publication of First Amendment Law in a Nutshell. Now, that treasure trove of information appears yet again in “nutshell” form, this...
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