Free Speech
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Government
Trump Sues CNN 'To Vindicate The 1st Amendment's Marketplace Of Ideas.' No, Seriously.
George Orwell couldn't make this up. -
Antitrust
What To Do When Free Speech No Longer Pays The Bills?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.03.22
* Still care about a free press? In that case, this sounds much needed. [LA Times]
* California just decriminalized jaywalking. In other news, jaywalking was criminalized in California. [CNN]
* Who’d have thunk it — Florida’s social media law made it to SCOTUS. I wonder how this will turn out. [SCOTUSblog]
* Abortion restrictions, as expected, are preventing people from getting the care they need, pregnant or not. [KY 3]
* After 30+ years, Robert’s court is looking a lot like Thomas’. [SCOTUSblog]
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Free Speech
This History Teacher's Rant About Needing To Bring Back Racial Terror Is Probably Going To Be The Big New Free Speech Thing
For people complaining about censorship, White Christian Nationalists can't seem to shut up. -
Free Speech
State Government Bans Teachers From Talking About Abortion And Jonathan Turley Is Here To Blame... The Schools?
When states tell you what they're doing, we should believe them. -
Law Schools
Again, People Pointing Out That You're Stupid Is Not An Attack On Freedom Of Speech
Come on, folks, you just look ridiculous. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.20.22
* Too big to talk? Goofy litigation over corporate free speech rights is likely heading straight to the Supreme Court. [Wa Po]
* Arizona judge soon to decide if abortion laws go back to 1901. [CNN]
* Pork is on hold in Mass. pending litigation. L&T sandwiches just don’t taste the same. [WWLP]
* Hey 1Ls, if you wanted a quick primer on statutory hermeneutics, look no further than abortion laws! [The Atlantic]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.19.22
* A picture is worth a thousand disbarrings: Kentucky prosecutor who would do legal favors for nude pictures is suspended. [Courier Journal]
* We really should have nipped that Facebook cancelled my free speech line of argument in the bud a few years ago. Just look at Texas! [Texas Tribune]
* A teenager who was punished with life in prison at fifteen is now starting law school a decade later. Talk about a hell of a personal statement! [Market Watch]
* Illinois is planning to abolish a poor people’s tax and people want you to think that it is Armageddon. It really isn’t. You should be more concerned over if your prosecutor is jailing people for not getting dem nudes. [Yahoo!]
* This is an A and B conversation. And C. And D. And E. And… [Protocol]
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Constitutional Law
What Was The Part Of The First Amendment ACB Forgot? Yeah, That Part Is In Danger.
The right to protest? Oh! I think you mean Pro Test. The Founding Fathers were really big on hormonal supplements. That's why they were so infatuated with people having Bear Arms. -
Government
Florida's Anti-Woke Law Is So Bad For Free Speech That Teachers Are Having A Hard Time Constructing Curricula Around It
'And here's where I'd mention that the reason there are so few mummies is because Europeans ate them, but I'd run the risk of losing my job.' - Some teacher in Florida during World History -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.07.22
* Quick, is this a Simpson’s gag or an American Tuesday?: Trump steals classified documents and inadvertently leaks another country’s highly classified nuclear arms information. [Wa Po]
* Do fetuses have standing? [Law and Crime]
* Cowboys for Trump co-founder got hit with the 14th. Not to laugh at one’s misfortunes, but teehee. [CitizensForEthics]
* Apple just evaded a class action being bit from it. [Bloomberg Law]
* Anti WOKE act accused of preventing teachers from doing their job because of how hard it restricts free speech. [Newsweek]
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Courts
Religious School Pushes To Maintain The Right To Keep LGBTQ Group Off Campus
That’s one way to bypass those pesky “WWJD” objections.
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Technology
Elon Musk’s Legal Filings Against Twitter Show How Little He Actually Cares About Free Speech
You have to fight for free speech. -
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Government
The New Ground For A Censorship-Prone America: Abortion
Given our response to COVID, are we really surprised that caring about someone else’s health is being criminalized? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.04.22
* As it turns out, the good guy with a gun thought they were watching an elaborate play. [Detroit News]
* Man arrested for starting a fire in Utah claims that he was trying to kill a spider. That’s an affirmative defense in my book. [CNN]
* Looks like our tech laws will lead to further “entanglements” with Russia. [Newsweek]
* Abortion might not be in the Constitution, but free speech definitely is. What gives? [Scientific American]
* How’s work working in Colorado? Here’s your employment law primer. [JD Supra]
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Law Schools
Alan Dershowitz Will Defend Free Speech By Suing The Library
Cancel culture's greatest victim. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.10.22
* There may be some turbulence for JetBlue — an antitrust suit was just given the green light. [Reuters]
* Massachusetts just made it easier for immigrants to drive to work. [AP]
* Planning on getting that JD to find Mx. Right? Women share stories of what it’s like dating as a lawyer. At least they try to. There are a lot of men in the comments. [Reddit]
* A congressional candidate from South Carolina is calling for treason executions and imprisoning the parents of LGBTQ children. Gotta love our lax hate speech jurisprudence! [LGBTQ Nation]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.06.22
* Attempts to hold the Uvalde Police Department accountable may prove difficult. You’d think we’d be better about the quis custodiet ipsos custodes problem after 2,000 years or so. [New York Times]
* Esquire of the Caribbean: Top firms want to parlay with Camille Vasquez after her big Johnny Depp win. [New York Post]
* The right to repair could be coming to Albany, NY! This is big! [Gothamist]
* A company’s right to (not) speak still remains murky due to Texas lawmakers. [Washington Post]
* The Court is set up to hear a gerrymandering case. Decision could be in by the end of 2023. Let’s enjoy voting until then. [New York Times]