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If You Work For The Government, Then Shut Your Mouth: Garcetti V. Ceballos And The Future Of Public Employee Speech, Joseph E. Hardgrave Aug 2006

If You Work For The Government, Then Shut Your Mouth: Garcetti V. Ceballos And The Future Of Public Employee Speech, Joseph E. Hardgrave

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This article dismantles the majority's reasoning in Garcetti v. Ceballos. A theory is proposed to why the Court broke with prior precedence and the sweeping effect of the ambigous holding is examined.


Preaching Terror: Free Speech Or Wartime Incitement?, Robert S. Tanenbaum Feb 2006

Preaching Terror: Free Speech Or Wartime Incitement?, Robert S. Tanenbaum

American University Law Review

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Preaching Terror: Free Speech Or Wartime Incitement?, Robert S. Tanenbaum Feb 2006

Preaching Terror: Free Speech Or Wartime Incitement?, Robert S. Tanenbaum

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Wrestling With God: The Courts' Tortuous Treatment Of Religion, Patrick Garry Dec 2005

Wrestling With God: The Courts' Tortuous Treatment Of Religion, Patrick Garry

Patrick M. Garry

The relationship between church and state is both controversial and unsettled. For decades, the courts have vacillated dramatically in their rulings on when a particular governmental accommodation rises to the level of an impermissible state establishment of religion. Without a comprehensive theory of the First Amendment establishment clause, religion cases have devolved into a jurisprudence of minutiae. Seemingly insignificant occurrences, such as a student reading a religious story or a teacher wearing a cross on a necklace, have led to years of litigation. And because of the constant threat of judicial intrusion, a pervasive social anxiety exists about the presence …