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Censoring Hate In The Music Industry: Shifting Perspectives In Pursuit Of Cultural Equity, Joey A. Tan Jun 2019

Censoring Hate In The Music Industry: Shifting Perspectives In Pursuit Of Cultural Equity, Joey A. Tan

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Music is intended to be expressive and unconstrained, a tool of communicating emotion and bridging humanity. As such, censorship is widely despised among music creators, listeners, publishers, distributors, and other music industry stakeholders. “Freedom of expression,” however, proves to be an applicable argument for both sides of the matter when the censorship concerns hate directed at marginalized communities. Analyzing the concept of censorship through the lens of those with privilege and power fails to recognize the extent to which hate speech impacts its victims and the indirect recipients of the message. As a powerful influencer of popular and youth cultures, …


Cheers To Central Hudson: How Traditional Intermediate Scrutiny Helps Keep Independent Craft Beer Viable, Daniel J. Croxall Jan 2018

Cheers To Central Hudson: How Traditional Intermediate Scrutiny Helps Keep Independent Craft Beer Viable, Daniel J. Croxall

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

Independent craft breweries contributed approximately $68 billion to the national economy last year. However, an arcane regulatory scheme governs the alcohol industry in general and the craft beer industry specifically, posing both obstacles and benefits to independent craft brewers. This Essay examines regulations that arguably infringe on free speech: namely, commercial speech regulations that prohibit alcohol manufacturers from purchasing advertising space from retailers. Such regulations were enacted to prohibit undue influence and anticompetitive behavior stemming from vertical and horizontal integration in the alcohol market. Although these regulations are necessary to prevent global corporate brewers from dominating the craft beer market …


Ag-Gag Laws, Lies, And The First Amendment, Justin Marceau Feb 2017

Ag-Gag Laws, Lies, And The First Amendment, Justin Marceau

Distinguished Speaker Series

In this talk, Professor Marceau will discuss the intersection of free speech and lies in constitutional doctrine. “Ag-gag” laws criminalize actions that include secret filming by whistleblowers of animal abuses on factory farms. Using the proliferation of ag-gag laws as an example, Professor Marceau will identify and discuss investigative deceptions as a category of high-value lies that ought to receive rigorous free speech protection because of their instrumental value to securing and disseminating information essential to a well-functioning democracy. He will also identify, more generally, the types of limits that may be imposed on lying consistent with the First Amendment


Government Identity Speech Programs: Understanding And Applying The New Walker Test, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 2017

Government Identity Speech Programs: Understanding And Applying The New Walker Test, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

In Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc., the Court extended its previous holding in Pleasant Grove City, Utah v.Summum that a city’s donated park monuments were government speech to the privately proposed designs that Texas accepts and stamps onto its specialty license plates. The placement of the program into the new doctrinal category is significant because the selection criteria for government–private speech combinations that produce government speech are “exempt from First Amendment scrutiny.” By contrast, when the government selects private speakers to participate in a private speech forum, its criteria must be reasonable in light of the …


Memo To Cannabis Regulators: The Expressions Hair Design Decision Does Not Limit Your Broad Authority To Restrict All Forms Of Discounting, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 2017

Memo To Cannabis Regulators: The Expressions Hair Design Decision Does Not Limit Your Broad Authority To Restrict All Forms Of Discounting, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Compelled Commercial Speech As Compelled Consent Speech, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 2014

Compelled Commercial Speech As Compelled Consent Speech, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Chapter 519: Fortifying California’S Reporters’ Shield, Devina Douglas Jan 2014

Chapter 519: Fortifying California’S Reporters’ Shield, Devina Douglas

McGeorge Law Review

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Chapters 859 & 863: Model Revenge Porn Legislation Or Merely A Work In Progress?, Michelle Daniels Jan 2014

Chapters 859 & 863: Model Revenge Porn Legislation Or Merely A Work In Progress?, Michelle Daniels

McGeorge Law Review

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Justice Kennedy’S Jurisprudence On The First Amendment Religion Clauses, R. Randall Kelso Jan 2013

Justice Kennedy’S Jurisprudence On The First Amendment Religion Clauses, R. Randall Kelso

McGeorge Law Review

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Justice Kennedy’S Free Speech Jurisprudence: A Quantitative And Qualitative Analysis, Ashutosh Bhagwat, Matthew Struhar Jan 2013

Justice Kennedy’S Free Speech Jurisprudence: A Quantitative And Qualitative Analysis, Ashutosh Bhagwat, Matthew Struhar

McGeorge Law Review

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What The Abortion Disclosure Cases Say About The Constitutionality Of Persuasive Government Speech On Product Labels, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 2010

What The Abortion Disclosure Cases Say About The Constitutionality Of Persuasive Government Speech On Product Labels, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Bush, Obama And Beyond: Observations On The Prospect For Fact Checking Executive Department Threat Claims Before The Use Of Force, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 2010

Bush, Obama And Beyond: Observations On The Prospect For Fact Checking Executive Department Threat Claims Before The Use Of Force, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

This piece looks at the recurring problem of inflated threat claims offered by executive branch actors to persuade the Nation to consent to the use of force. It sets out the experience of the Bush Administration’s use of incorrect threat claims to persuade the country to consent to the use of force in Iraq as a backdrop to evaluating the President Obama’s use of threat claims to support the continuing use of force in Afghanistan. Although comparison of threat advocacy by the Bush and Obama administrations must be imperfect, it allows for some observations about the extent to which the …


Vehicle Leafleting: Suggestion For Municipalities Seeking To Defend Vehicular Leafleting Bans Against First Amendment Challenges, Adam Klare Guernsey Jan 2010

Vehicle Leafleting: Suggestion For Municipalities Seeking To Defend Vehicular Leafleting Bans Against First Amendment Challenges, Adam Klare Guernsey

McGeorge Law Review

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Global Issues In Freedom Of Speech And Religion: Cases And Materials, Leslie Gielow Jacobs, Alan Brownstein Jan 2009

Global Issues In Freedom Of Speech And Religion: Cases And Materials, Leslie Gielow Jacobs, Alan Brownstein

McGeorge School of Law Teaching Materials

Brownstein and Jacobs's Global Issues in Freedom of Speech and Religion: Cases and Materials is a companion volume to existing materials. Designed to assist professors in introducing issues of international and comparative law, this title is ideal for use in educational courses that address:

  • The First Amendment
  • Law and religion
  • Individual rights
  • Other topics dealing with free speech and religious liberty


In order to make companion materials understandable and accessible to students as well as to professors who have not taught the materials before, this title:

  • Includes case excerpts, helpful background materials, and notes
  • Is set out in a structure …


Freedom Of Association, The Communist Party, And The Hollywood Ten: The Forgotten First Amendment Legacy Of Charles Hamilton Houston, Jose Felipe Anderson Jan 2008

Freedom Of Association, The Communist Party, And The Hollywood Ten: The Forgotten First Amendment Legacy Of Charles Hamilton Houston, Jose Felipe Anderson

McGeorge Law Review

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Bailing Out The Print Newspaper Industry: A Not-So-Joking Public Policy And First Amendment Analysis, Clay Calvert Jan 2008

Bailing Out The Print Newspaper Industry: A Not-So-Joking Public Policy And First Amendment Analysis, Clay Calvert

McGeorge Law Review

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Battle Of The Lists: The Use Of Approved Versus Restricted Religious Book Lists In Prisons, Joanna E. Varner Jan 2008

Battle Of The Lists: The Use Of Approved Versus Restricted Religious Book Lists In Prisons, Joanna E. Varner

McGeorge Law Review

No abstract provided.


Political Marketplace Metaphor From A Labor Perspective, The, Thomas Tso Jan 2008

Political Marketplace Metaphor From A Labor Perspective, The, Thomas Tso

McGeorge Law Review

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Mt. Soledad In The Supreme Court's Crosshairs: Why Legislative Recognition Should Be Considered In Public Displays Of Religion, Adrian R. Conteras Jan 2008

Mt. Soledad In The Supreme Court's Crosshairs: Why Legislative Recognition Should Be Considered In Public Displays Of Religion, Adrian R. Conteras

McGeorge Law Review

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A Troubling Equation In Contracts For Government Funded Scientific Research: "Sensitive But Unclassified" = Secret But Unconstitutional, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 2005

A Troubling Equation In Contracts For Government Funded Scientific Research: "Sensitive But Unclassified" = Secret But Unconstitutional, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Clarifying The Content-Based/Content Neutral And Content/Viewpoint Determinations, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 2003

Clarifying The Content-Based/Content Neutral And Content/Viewpoint Determinations, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.


Free Speech And The Limits Of Legislative Discretion: The Example Of Specialty License Plates, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 2001

Free Speech And The Limits Of Legislative Discretion: The Example Of Specialty License Plates, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.


The Public Sensibilities Forum, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 2001

The Public Sensibilities Forum, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.


The Link Between Student Activity Fees And Campaign Finance Regulations, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 2000

The Link Between Student Activity Fees And Campaign Finance Regulations, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.


Is There An Obligation To Listen?, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 1999

Is There An Obligation To Listen?, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Pledges, Parades, And Mandatory Payments, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 1999

Pledges, Parades, And Mandatory Payments, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

This Article examines the Supreme Court's treatment of compelled expression cases. It sets forth the speech restraint framework by describing the crucial determinations guiding judicial analysis. It then explains the current results, reasoning, and incoherence of the compelled expression cases. This Article isolates and evaluates the variables that the Court claims are significant to compelled expression analysis. It then adjusts the variables according to the free speech clause values evident in speech restraint analysis to create a coherent doctrine of compelled expression. This doctrine both places past cases within a consistent framework and provides a structure for evaluating future compelled …


Supplementing The Assumed Definitions: A Commentary On Professor Brownstein's Analysis Of Abortion Protest Restrictions, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 1996

Supplementing The Assumed Definitions: A Commentary On Professor Brownstein's Analysis Of Abortion Protest Restrictions, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Nonviolent Abortion Clinic Protests: Reevaluating Some Current Assumptions About The Proper Scope Of Government Regulations, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 1996

Nonviolent Abortion Clinic Protests: Reevaluating Some Current Assumptions About The Proper Scope Of Government Regulations, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

Regulation of nonviolent political-protest activities outside abortion clinics must balance the constitutional rights to free speech and to choose abortion, and the social value of nonviolent political protest. This Article examines and questions two current assumptions about the proper scope of government regulations. The first assumption is that, absent a constitutional obstacle under prevailing free speech jurisprudence, it is appropriate to enjoin or statutorily enhance sanctions for any variety of nonviolent political-protest activities that block access to clinics or constitute illegal trespasses. This Article argues that for a particular type of nonviolent political protest-conduct that is equivalent to speech on …


Adding Complexity To Confusion And Seeing The Light: Feminist Legal Insights And The Jurisprudence Of The Religion Clauses, Leslie Gielow Jacobs Jan 1995

Adding Complexity To Confusion And Seeing The Light: Feminist Legal Insights And The Jurisprudence Of The Religion Clauses, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.


Triangulating The Boundaries Of The Pentagon Papers, John Cary Sims Jan 1993

Triangulating The Boundaries Of The Pentagon Papers, John Cary Sims

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.