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The Trouble With Jaycees, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

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The First Amendment’S Global Dimension, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

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Recovering The Assembly Clause, Timothy Zick

Timothy Zick

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A New Look At An Old Association: Will Today's Women Be Tomorrow's Jaycees?, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

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The Expressive Interest Of Associations, Erwin Chemerinsky, Catherine Fisk

Erwin Chemerinsky

Professors Erwin Chemerinsky and Catherine Fisk take issue on several grounds with Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, in which the Supreme Court held that the Boy Scouts have a First Amendment right to exclude gays, even though state law prohibits such discrimination. They first criticize Dale 's holding that courts must accept the group leadership's characterization of the group's expressive message. The Court's approach short-circuited the process by which an organization ordinarily develops or transforms its expressive message--internal deliberation, public articulation of a message, and recruitment of like-minded members-and it did so at the expense of many current and …

The Expressive Interest Of Associations, Erwin Chemerinsky, Catherine Fisk

Catherine Fisk

Professors Erwin Chemerinsky and Catherine Fisk take issue on several grounds with Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, in which the Supreme Court held that the Boy Scouts have a First Amendment right to exclude gays, even though state law prohibits such discrimination. They first criticize Dale 's holding that courts must accept the group leadership's characterization of the group's expressive message. The Court's approach short-circuited the process by which an organization ordinarily develops or transforms its expressive message--internal deliberation, public articulation of a message, and recruitment of like-minded members-and it did so at the expense of many current and …

The Market For Legal Education And Freedom Of Association: Why The "Solomon Amendment" Is Constitutional And Law Schools Are Not Expressive Associations, Andrew P. Morriss

Andrew P. Morriss

This term the Supreme Court will confront the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment, which mandates equal access for military recruiters at universities that accept federal funding. The Third Circuit previously held the statute unconstitutional. This Article argues that the Court should reverse and uphold the statute because the lower court failed to consider the cartelized nature of legal education and so assumed that law schools are "expressive associations" entitled to assert First Amendment claims; the court also failed to give proper deference to Congress's exercise of its Article I power to raise and support armies and over-valued law faculties' interest …

Religious Associations: Hosanna-Tabor And The Instrumental Value Of Religious Groups, Ashutosh Bhagwat

Ashutosh Bhagwat

In its 2012 decision in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Church & Sch. V. EEOC, the Supreme Court held that the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment require recognition of a “ministerial exception” to general antidiscrimination statutes (in that case, the ADA), because religious institutions must have autonomy in selecting their ministers. In the course of its analysis, however, the Court made a very interesting move. In response to the government’s argument that the case could be resolved under the general First Amendment right of association, the Court responded that this position was “untenable,” and indeed “remarkable,” because the very existence of …

Friends, Associates And Associations: Theoretically And Empirically Grounding The Freedom Of Association, Tabatha Abu El-Haj

Tabatha Abu El-Haj

This Article argues that while the freedom of association is back at the center of the First Amendment, it suffers from the fact that it has been both theoretically and doctrinally subsumed by the freedom of speech. The First Amendment’s self-governance interest is necessarily broader than an interest in political debate and a vibrant marketplace of political ideas.

Association and associations enable the political participation that can turn ideas and debate into the action required to create democratic accountability. Free association doctrine is, therefore, uniquely positioned to promote representative government by protecting conditions necessary for an active citizenry.

A reoriented …

Jaycees Reconsidered: Judge Richard S. Arnold And The Freedom Of Association, Richard W. Garnett

Richard W Garnett

In Roberts v. United States Jaycees, the Supreme Court reversed Judge Richard S. Arnold's decision for the Court of Appeals and held­ - without dissent - that the First Amendment did not shield the Jaycees' men-only membership policy from the non-discrimination requirements of the Minnesota Human Rights Act. The claim in this essay is that Judge Arnold's position and decision in the Jaycees case deserved, and still deserve, more thoughtful and sympathetic treatment. Even some of Judge Arnold's many friends and fans tend to treat as something of an embarrassing lapse or anomalous error his conclusion in that case that, …

Terrorism And Associations, Ashutosh A. Bhagwat

Ashutosh Bhagwat

The domestic manifestation of the War on Terror has produced the most difficult and sustained set of controversies regarding the limits on First Amendment protections for political speech and association since the anti-Communist crusades of the Red Scare and McCarthy eras. An examination of the types of domestic terrorism prosecutions that have become common since the September 11 attacks reveals continuing and unresolved conflicts between national security needs and traditional protections for speech and (especially) associational freedoms. Yet the courts have barely begun to acknowledge, much less address, these serious issues. In the Supreme Court’s only sustained engagement with these …

No Place To Hide: First Amendment Protection For Geolocation Privacy, Theodore F. Claypoole

Theodore F Claypoole

The article analyzes the conflict between established Constitutional rights and evaporating privacy, by exploring technological changes that threaten anonymity and examining the First Amendment rights to be anonymous in association and speech.

Brief On The Merits-Inter-American Court Of Human Rights: Fleury V. Haiti, Andrea P. Capellán, Smita Rao, Meetali Jain

Andrea Pestone Capellán

This is a brief on the merits authored by my co-counsel, Smita Rao, and I to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of Lysias Fleury v. Haiti (Case No. 12.459). This case was recommended to the Inter-American Court by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The brief was filed on behalf of Lysias Fleury, a Haitian human rights defender, by the Washington College of Law International Human Rights Law Clinic.

Brief On The Merits-Inter-American Court Of Human Rights: Fleury V. Haiti (French), Andrea P. Capellán, Smita Rao, Meetali Jain

Andrea Pestone Capellán

FRENCH VERSION. This is a brief on the merits authored by my co-counsel, Smita Rao, and I to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of Lysias Fleury v. Haiti (Case No. 12.459). This case was recommended to the Inter-American Court by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The brief was filed on behalf of Lysias Fleury, a Haitian human rights defender, by the Washington College of Law International Human Rights Law Clinic.

Current Issues And Developments In Workers' Freedom Of Association In Nigeria, O. V. C. Okene

Dr. O. V. C. OKene

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