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All Employers Must Wash Their Speech Before Returning To Work: The First Amendment & Compelled Use Of Employees’ Preferred Gender Pronouns, Tyler Sherman
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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The Government Speech Doctrine In Walker’S Wake: Early Rifts And Reverberations On Free Speech, Viewpoint Discrimination, And Offensive Expression, Clay Calvert
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
This Article examines the immediate effects on free expression of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. involving the government speech doctrine. In Walker, a sharply—and largely partisanly—divided Court upheld, in the face of a First Amendment challenge, Texas’s decision denying a private organization’s application for a specialty license plate featuring Confederate battle flag imagery. This Article initially reviews the government speech doctrine and Walker. It then analyzes Walker’s impact on cases that, like it, involve specialty license plate programs. Next, this Article explores lower court efforts stretching …
The Commercial Difference, Felix T. Wu
The Commercial Difference, Felix T. Wu
William & Mary Law Review
When it comes to the First Amendment, commerciality does, and should, matter. This Article develops the view that the key distinguishing characteristic of corporate or commercial speech is that the interest at stake is “derivative,” in the sense that we care about the speech interest for reasons other than caring about the rights of the entity directly asserting a claim under the First Amendment. To say that the interest is derivative is not to say that it is unimportant, and one could find corporate and commercial speech interests to be both derivative and strong enough to apply heightened scrutiny to …
A Reverent Reflection Of The Splendid Scholarship Of Martin Redish—Does Reexamining Commercial Speech Shed Light On The Regrettable Reliance Upon Lie & Insult In Political Campaigns?, Douglas W. Kmiec
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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The Status Of The Hearer In Mr. Madison’S Neighborhood, Burt Neuborne
The Status Of The Hearer In Mr. Madison’S Neighborhood, Burt Neuborne
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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False Commercial Speech And The First Amendment: Understanding The Implications Of The Equivalency Principle, Martin H. Redish, Kyle Voils
False Commercial Speech And The First Amendment: Understanding The Implications Of The Equivalency Principle, Martin H. Redish, Kyle Voils
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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No Regrets (Almost): After Virginia Board Of Pharmacy, Alan B. Morrison
No Regrets (Almost): After Virginia Board Of Pharmacy, Alan B. Morrison
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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Commercial Speech And The Perils Of Parity, Frederick Schauer
Commercial Speech And The Perils Of Parity, Frederick Schauer
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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The Coverage/Protection Distinction In The Law Of Freedom Of Speech—An Essay On Meta-Doctrine In Constitutional Law, Mark Tushnet
The Coverage/Protection Distinction In The Law Of Freedom Of Speech—An Essay On Meta-Doctrine In Constitutional Law, Mark Tushnet
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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