Free Speech
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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]
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Courts
SCOTUS Rules Against Compelled Speech. The Breakdown Is Definitely Worth Talking About Though.
Hmmm. Didn't see that one coming. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.26.22
* Back the children: The number of children that have been shot to death at school is higher than the amount of officers that have been killed in the line of duty. [AS]
* Oklahoma just banned abortion at fertilization. We’re like two steps off criminalizing miscarriages at this point, aren’t we? [CNN]
* NY judge maintains law that allows gun manufacturers to be sued if and when they endanger public safety. [CNN]
* Advertisers REALLY don’t like Texas’s social media law. [Adweek]
* If Roe is overturned, the right to choose will be set back 173 years in Wisconsin. [Madison]
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Government
FL AG Takes Victory Lap After Eleventh Circuit Dropkicks The State's Ridiculous Social Media Law
State's top lawyer lying about a court order? No, say it ain't so! -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.24.22
* Could these abortion bans be just the thing needed to spur environmentalism with teeth? [Daily Beast]
* The 11th Circuit just found the Florida law that prevents social media sites from moderating political speech to be unconstitutional. [Yahoo!]
* Harvard just uhh… sued the government for discriminating against one of its students? Am I reading this right? [The Crimson]
* Colorado just made it a little easier to be a parent. [Chieftain]
* We don’t like your kind around here: Inventions originating from artificial intelligence are butting up against patent law in interesting ways. [Nature]
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Courts
So I Guess 'Small Government' Now Includes Compelling Corporate Speech?
I can't believe they suspended me! All I said was literally the most hateful thing I could think of about Mexicans! -
Government
Isn't It Wonderful That Truth Is A Defense To Slander?
I'm not saying I dislike Ted Cruz. I'm not saying anything, actually. I typed this on my laptop. -
Elon Buying Twitter Isn't Necessarily Party Over, But I'd Like An Afterparty Invite
I wonder how long it will take until posting that picture of him with Ghislaine Maxwell is a bannable offense. -
Technology
Move Over First Amendment: The EU Has A Few Thoughts About Your Tweeting
This is gonna be like GDPR all over again. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.29.22
* Laws matter: life lost after school neglects to follow anti-bullying protocol. [WBEZ]
* The EU’s laws will be impacting American free speech, eh? Talk about long-arm statutes. [The Hill]
* Oklahoma just passed their version of Texas’s Roe sidestep. Over/under for them banning condoms too in two weeks? [CNN]
* Marjorie Taylor Greene is maintaining the Shaggy defense for her Section 3 trial. [NBC News]
* People are upset that the Texas bill disincentivizing the use of clean energy isn’t enough to keep them using fossil fuels. Sorry, not sorry. [NPR]
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Courts
Elon Musk Understands Free Speech Even Less Than You Thought He Did
Federal judge offers some schooling. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.24.22
* Meaning what you say: Climate change activist self-immolated in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day. [Independent]
* Are our founding principles stronger than historical revisionism? This 1st Amendment suit against banning history will let us know. [WCGU]
* Nixing the 77%: Mississippi now requires that women be paid the same amount as men for the same work. Fanfare aplenty. [ABC News]
* …And Mississippi is also banning vaccination mandates. Being newsworthy twice in a row counts for something, right? [Clarion Ledger]
* Three’s Company: Brandeis must be overjoyed about this relapse into old antitrust jurisprudence. [Bloomberg]
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Free Speech
Free Speech Has Become Confusing And Chaotic
People should be free to express an unpopular opinion without having to worry about being cancelled. -
Law Schools
Yale Law Professor Suggests Punishing Students For Following The Rules
Nothing instills respect for the rule of law like having a 'three strikes' rule and authorities calling for punishment after one strike. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.04.22
* Two Americas: Legal battles are making for radically different living experiences state by state. [NYT]
* Too little, too late? New federal anti-lynching law may not be enough of a deterrent. [NPR]
* Florida has been trying to make the most of the whole 1965 Voting Rights Act being gutted and all. [NYT]
* Trump’s Twitter emulator is failing bigly. Hard to speak freely with bad coders. [BBC]
* All good boys protect and serve: Officer attacking a teenager bitten by K-9. [YouTube]
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Courts
Don't Believe The Hype: The Left Wish They Ran Cancel Culture Like This
No blue-haired them/they comes close to snowflaking as hard as a middle-aged white man who reads Breitbart. -
Law Schools
Yale Law School Free Speech Crisis Mostly Fake News
Don't let the facts get in the way of a whiny narrative.