FAN 33.1 (First Amendment News) — Gov. Brown signs Confederate flag ban
Symbols of the Confederate flag are so unwelcome in California that this past Thursday Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation prohibiting state agencies from selling or displaying items bearing the...
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FAN 34 (First Amendment News) Hybrid PACS — yet another case goes to High Court
I am posting this column a few days early since I will be traveling this week, but next week I’ll return to the scheduled Wednesday postings. * * * * Contributions earmarked solely for use in...
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FAN 34.1 (First Amendment News) — 1-A Salons and Floyd Abrams Institute join...
PRESS RELEASE The First Amendment Salon is pleased to announce that it has formed an association with the Floyd Abrams Institute for Free Expression at Yale Law School. The Abrams Institute is...
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FAN 34.2 (First Amendment News) — Court agrees to hear judicial campaign...
The case is Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar. This morning the Court agreed to review the case. Lanell Williams-Yulee → The issue is whether a rule of judicial conduct that prohibits candidates for...
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34.4 (First Amendment News) Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference — Call...
The Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Information Society Project at Yale Law School invite applications for the third annual Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference. The conference...
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FAN 35 (First Amendment News) Clear & Present Danger in the states — Holmes’s...
Suppose that a code were made and expressed in language sanctioned by the assent of the courts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes (1870) Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes 46 States & 209 statutes Incredibly,...
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FAN 35.1 (First Amendment News) — Creative Freedom & the First Amendment
On Wednesday, October 22, Freedom House and the Motion Picture Association of America, in support of Free Speech Week, will host a discussion on Creative Freedom and the First Amendment. The event will...
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FAN 35.2 (First Amendment News) — Former NSA Director counsels against going...
Hey, I knew we were playing up against the line. . . . I don’t understand the necessity to pursue Jim. – General Michael Hayden On Sunday October 12th, James Risen of the New York Times appeared on 60...
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FAN 36 (First Amendment News) Forgotten Free Press Advocates — The Women...
These three women were active in ACLU First Amendment work during those early years and had an enormously powerful and lasting impact on the law we enjoy today. — Joel Gora (longtime ACLU lawyer) The...
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FAN 36.1 (First Amendment News) Skover to Speak on McCutcheon Case
By way of a shameless plug for my coauthor: INFLUENTIAL VOICES David Skover Seattle University School of Law is proud to present Professor David Skover SCOTUS Books-in-Brief: When Money Speaks: A New...
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FAN 36.2 (First Amendment News) Corn-Revere on the FCC & Redskins Controversy
Robert Corn-Revere In case you missed it, yesterday Robert Corn-Revere had an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. The piece was titled, “Free-Speech Foes Call an Audible — Bringing the FCC into the...
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FAN 36.3 (First Amendment News) A street named Carlin
Cardinal Carlin UPDATED Tomorrow New York City will rename a street to honor the late George Carlin, the famed comedian and inspiration for FCC v. Pacifica (1978), the infamous First Amendment case...
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FAN 37 (First Amendment News) McCutcheon case produces flood of scholarly...
Before proceeding to the scholarly output on McCutcheon, here is where we stand this Term on First Amendment free expression cases: Review Granted Elonis v. United States (to be argued on 12-1-14)...
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FAN 38 (First Amendment News) Abrams Institute to host conference on Net...
On November 3rd, the Floyd Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression will host a conference entitled Net Neutrality: From Debate to Policy Decisions. The conference will take place at the Century...
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FAN 38.1 (First Amendment News) FIRE bursts on out in NYC — Free speech...
EXPLOSIVE. That is as good as any a word to describe the high energy level at the 15th Anniversary dinner of FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), the group founded by Harvey Silvergate...
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UCLA Law Review Vol. 62, Discourse
Volume 62, Discourse Discourse A Critique of Justice Antonin Scalia’s Originalist Defense of Brown v. Board of Education Ronald Turner 170
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FAN 40 (First Amendment News) Steve Shiffrin & Bob Corn-Revere debate “What’s...
Bob Corn-Revere & Steve Shiffrin (with Joel Gora in background) For those who savor good give-and-take talk about the First Amendment, last Wednesday evening was a memorable one as Professor Steven...
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FAN 40.1 (First Amendment News) Banzhaf responds to Corn-Revere on FCC...
Professor John Banzhaf, III In an earlier post I profiled Robert Corn-Revere’s WSJ op-ed entitled “Free-Speech Foes Call an Audible — Bringing the FCC into the ‘Redskins’ debate is an invitation for...
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UCLA Law Review Vol. 62, Discourse
Volume 62, Discourse Discourse How Hall v. Florida Transforms the Supreme Court’s Eighth Amendment Evolving Standards of Decency Analysis Bidish J. Sarma 186
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FAN 41 (First Amendment News) Three Harvard Law Review essays discuss Justice...
Judge Breyer has a unique zig-zag style. – Ralph Nader (confirmation hearing statement, July 15, 1994) I do not rest my conclusion upon a strict categorical analysis. – Justice Stephen Breyer...
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