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FAN 131 (First Amendment News) Forthcoming: Chemerinsky & Gillman on the...
It is one of the topics of our times — free speech on college campuses. As noted below, each week there are numerous news stories about this or that form of censorship endorsed by campus...
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FAN 132 (First Amendment News) FIRE Launches First Amendment Online Library
This past Monday some 100 people came to the Washington, D.C. scenic offices of Jones Day where the Foundation for Individual Rights (FIRE) hosted an event to launch the First Amendment Library, the...
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FAN 133 (First Amendment News) Slants trademark case might be decided on...
The Slants band The briefs are still being filed in Lee v. Tam, the disparagement trademark case. While the briefs for the Petitioner are in Brief for Amanda Blackhorse, Marcus Briggs-Cloud, Phillip...
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FAN 133.1 (First Amendment News) FIRE to podcast First Amendment Salons
Lee Levine The Foundation for Individual Rights (FIRE) will podcast future First Amendment Salons, the next of which is scheduled for December 8th in Washington, D.C. That salon, the eleventh, will...
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FAN 134 (First Amendment News) “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act” ignites First...
The bill was proposed by Senators Bob Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat, and Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican, to “ensure the Education Department has the necessary statutory tools at their disposal...
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FAN 135 (First Amendment News) “Protect the Flag Act” Introduced in Congress
On December 2, 2016, Congressman Michael R. Turner (R-OH) introduced the “Protect the Flag Act” (H.R. 6433). Section 2 of the proposed bill provides: “(a) In General.—Federal funds may not be made...
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FAN 135.1 (First Amendment News) First Amendment Salon: Jess Bravin...
The last First Amendment Salon has just been posted. It involved a dialogue between Jess Bravin (Supreme Court correspondent for the Wall Street Journal) and David Cole (Georgetown Law Professor and...
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FAN 136 (First Amendment News) 2016: The Year in Review, including “the best of”
This is the 43rd and last FAN post for this year. All the hyperlinked posts for this year are listed below by month. Also below are some highlights of the past year along with a few “best ofs” of 2016:...
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FAN 137 (First Amendment News) Backpage.com removes adult content due to...
Seattle. This from a press release from Backpage.com: As the direct result of unconstitutional government censorship, Backpage.com has removed its Adult content section from the highly popular...
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FAN 138 (First Amendment News) Forthcoming book: “Unsafe Space: The Crisis of...
A call to arms for studnets and academics who want to turn the tide on campus censorship — Nadine Strossen Tom Slater Seattle. He is the deputy editor at Spiked, a British Internet magazine focusing...
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FAN 139 (First Amendment News) Gov. Cuomo turns to Floyd Abrams for First...
Gov. Cuomo has hired prominent First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams to defend him against a federal lawsuit challenging a new law that requires politically active non-profit organizations to publicly...
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FAN 140 (First Amendment News) Will Judge Hardiman be the nominee? A sketch...
The talk in the air is thick: Third Circuit Judge Thomas Hardiman could be President Trump’s pick to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Already much has been written about...
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FAN 141 (First Amendment News) Judge Neil Gorsuch — the Scholarly First...
Free speech works; it works better than any form of censorship or suppression; and in exercising vigorously, the truth is bound to emerge. — Neil Gorsuch (1986) Last Saturday’s march was more a demand...
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FAN 142 (First Amendment News) 8th Cir. Upholds 1st Amendment challenge to...
Paul Gerlich & Erin Furleigh (credit: FIRE) Seattle. “Then-students Paul Gerlich and Erin Furleigh were officers with Iowa State University’s chapter of the National Organization for the Reform...
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FAN 143 (First Amendment News) The Turner Broadcasting case, Justice Kennedy...
A 1990 Harvard yearbook shows Neil Gorsuch, second row from the top on the left. Vancouver, Canada. Neil Gorsuch clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy (earlier for Justice Byron White) during the...
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FAN 144 (First Amendment News) Cert Petition: Nursing student challenges...
Craig Keefe (Credit: Brainerd Dispatch) Seattle. The case is Keefe v. Adams. It involves Craig Keefe. According to a story by David Hanners in the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, Mr. Keefe was a “semester...
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Stone’s “Sex and the Constitution”— a monumental work
Professor Geoffrey Stone If you thought Geoffrey Stone’s Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime: From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (W.W. Norton, 2005) was an incredible book, hold...
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An Optimist in Pessimistic Times: Chief Judge Katzmann on Civic Education
Chief Judge Katzmann (Charlie Rose program) One of the keys to the survival of free institutions is . . . the way citizens do, or do not, participate in the public sphere. — Robert N. Bellah * * *...
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FAN 145 (First Amendment News) David Cole: “Does anyone believe that the...
In a recent issue of the New York Review of Books, the ACLU’s David Cole reviewed: Laura Weinrib, The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise (Harvard University Press, 2016, 461...
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FAN 146 (First Amendment News) Upcoming Conference: “Truth, Lies and the...
The Twenty-Fifth Annual Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Conference is sponsored by Colorado Law’s Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law. The annual event seeks to explore a broad...
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