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Legal Scholars Weigh In On The Lasting Significance Of Dominion V. Fox, Samantha Barbas, Martin Garbus, Lyrissa Lidsky, Timothy Zick, Sandra Baron Apr 2023

Legal Scholars Weigh In On The Lasting Significance Of Dominion V. Fox, Samantha Barbas, Martin Garbus, Lyrissa Lidsky, Timothy Zick, Sandra Baron

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First Amendment Scholar Timothy Zick Dismantles Trump V. Cnn Lawsuit, Timothy Zick Oct 2022

First Amendment Scholar Timothy Zick Dismantles Trump V. Cnn Lawsuit, Timothy Zick

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Former President Donald Trump filed a $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN arguing the network has maligned him with “fake news” for the purposes of damaging his political future heading into 2024.

The complaint filed Oct. 3 stated, “CNN has sought to use its massive influence – purportedly as a ‘trusted’ news source – to defame the Plaintiff in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically, culminating in CNN claiming credit for ‘[getting] Trump out’ in the 2020 presidential election.”

First Amendment Watch asked First Amendment scholar Timothy Zick to annotate the 29-page …


Consider Freedom Of Speech: Perspectives On How To Hold Difficult Conversations With Respect, Vivian E. Hamilton, Andrew D. Stelljes Oct 2022

Consider Freedom Of Speech: Perspectives On How To Hold Difficult Conversations With Respect, Vivian E. Hamilton, Andrew D. Stelljes

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What Does The Alex Jones Case Mean For The First Amendment And Disinformation? Leading Scholars, Lawyers Provide Analysis, George Freeman, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Lynn Oberlander, Timothy Zick Aug 2022

What Does The Alex Jones Case Mean For The First Amendment And Disinformation? Leading Scholars, Lawyers Provide Analysis, George Freeman, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Lynn Oberlander, Timothy Zick

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Seditious Conspiracy Charge Against Oath Keepers Founder And Others In Jan. 6 Riot Faces First Amendment Hurdle, Timothy Zick Jan 2022

Seditious Conspiracy Charge Against Oath Keepers Founder And Others In Jan. 6 Riot Faces First Amendment Hurdle, Timothy Zick

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The Second Amendment Has Become A Threat To The First, Diana Palmer, Timothy Zick Oct 2021

The Second Amendment Has Become A Threat To The First, Diana Palmer, Timothy Zick

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Protesting In America, Timothy Zick Jan 2021

Protesting In America, Timothy Zick

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What The Lawyers Who Sue The Press Think Of The Press, And Media Law, Jonathan Peters Jul 2020

What The Lawyers Who Sue The Press Think Of The Press, And Media Law, Jonathan Peters

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“HAVE A SCORE TO SETTLE WITH THE PRESS? Charles Harder, the media lawyer who ground Gawker.com to dust, is your man.”

That was the subhead of a GQ profile of Harder published in 2016, after he won a $140 million jury verdict for Hulk Hogan against Gawker (later settled for $31 million). The profile went on to say that Harder had established himself “as perhaps the greatest threat in the United States to journalists, the First Amendment, and the very notion of a free press.”

Whether or not that’s true, Harder has said it would be “awesome” if the Gawker …


The Constitutional Case For "Red Flag" Laws, Timothy Zick Dec 2019

The Constitutional Case For "Red Flag" Laws, Timothy Zick

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The Legal Implications Of Synthetic And Manipulated Media, Thomas E. Kadri Nov 2019

The Legal Implications Of Synthetic And Manipulated Media, Thomas E. Kadri

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Ahead of the U.S. 2020 presidential election, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace convened more than 100 experts from three dozen organizations inside and outside Silicon Valley in private meetings to help address the challenges that synthetic and manipulated media pose for industry, government, and society more broadly. Among other things, the meetings developed a common understanding of the potential for synthetic and manipulated media circulated on technology platforms to disrupt the upcoming presidential election, generated definitions of “inappropriate” election-related synthetic and manipulated media that have informed platform content moderation policies, and equipped platforms with playbooks of effective and ethical …


Trust And Retaliation: The First Amendment And Trump’S Taxes, Timothy Zick Jul 2019

Trust And Retaliation: The First Amendment And Trump’S Taxes, Timothy Zick

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The President’S Utterly Un-American Response To Dissent, Timothy Zick Jul 2019

The President’S Utterly Un-American Response To Dissent, Timothy Zick

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How Supreme A Court?, Thomas E. Kadri Nov 2018

How Supreme A Court?, Thomas E. Kadri

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Facebook is planning an independent appeals process for content moderation decisions. But how much power will it have?


How To Make Facebook's 'Supreme Court' Work, Kate Klonick, Thomas E. Kadri Nov 2018

How To Make Facebook's 'Supreme Court' Work, Kate Klonick, Thomas E. Kadri

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The idea of a body that will decide what kind of content is allowed on the site is promising — but only if it’s done right.


President Trump: Challenging Core First Amendment Principles, Timothy Zick Aug 2018

President Trump: Challenging Core First Amendment Principles, Timothy Zick

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The First Amendment, The Second Amendment, And 3d Firearms, Timothy Zick Aug 2018

The First Amendment, The Second Amendment, And 3d Firearms, Timothy Zick

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Judge Kavanaugh And Freedom Of Expression, Timothy Zick Aug 2018

Judge Kavanaugh And Freedom Of Expression, Timothy Zick

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Speech V. Speakers, Thomas E. Kadri Jan 2018

Speech V. Speakers, Thomas E. Kadri

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Twitter's new rules about extremist speech blur the lines between people and words.


What Trump Misses About Free Speech, Timothy Zick Sep 2017

What Trump Misses About Free Speech, Timothy Zick

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Why You Should Doubt Reports That The First Amendment Would Protect Gen. Flynn From Prosecution Under The Logan Act, Timothy Zick Feb 2017

Why You Should Doubt Reports That The First Amendment Would Protect Gen. Flynn From Prosecution Under The Logan Act, Timothy Zick

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Don’T Expect The First Amendment To Protect The Media, Ronnell Anderson Jones, Sonja R. West Jan 2017

Don’T Expect The First Amendment To Protect The Media, Ronnell Anderson Jones, Sonja R. West

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Op-ed in the New York Times about the limits on the protection of the press under the First Amendment.


'Serial' Should Release Bergdahl Interviews, Jeffrey Bellin Aug 2016

'Serial' Should Release Bergdahl Interviews, Jeffrey Bellin

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The First Amendment And The World, Timothy Zick Jan 2016

The First Amendment And The World, Timothy Zick

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The Absurd Logic Behind Florida’S Docs Vs. Glocks Law, Dahlia Lithwick, Sonja R. West Jan 2016

The Absurd Logic Behind Florida’S Docs Vs. Glocks Law, Dahlia Lithwick, Sonja R. West

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This article published at Slate.com on January 8, 2016, reviews the Wollschlaeger v. Governor of the State of Florida case in which the Florida legislature passed a law that bars health care workers from discussing or recording anything about their patients’ gun ownership or safety practices that could be deemed in bad faith, irrelevant, or harassing.


The Empirical Irony Of The Conflict Between Antidiscrimination And Religious Freedom, Nathan B. Oman Apr 2015

The Empirical Irony Of The Conflict Between Antidiscrimination And Religious Freedom, Nathan B. Oman

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The (Hoped For) Shallowness Of Progressive Skepticism Towards Religious Freedom, Nathan B. Oman Apr 2015

The (Hoped For) Shallowness Of Progressive Skepticism Towards Religious Freedom, Nathan B. Oman

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Ferguson — What Now?, Timothy Zick Nov 2014

Ferguson — What Now?, Timothy Zick

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The Cost Of Public Protest, Timothy Zick Nov 2014

The Cost Of Public Protest, Timothy Zick

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Zick On Public Protest And Ferguson, Timothy Zick Nov 2014

Zick On Public Protest And Ferguson, Timothy Zick

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Advice For Ferguson From The Supreme Court, Sonja R. West, Dahlia Lithwick Aug 2014

Advice For Ferguson From The Supreme Court, Sonja R. West, Dahlia Lithwick

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This article looks at the factors regarding protestors and counselors set forth in the Supreme Court's decision in McCullen v. Coakley and puts them in the Ferguson, Missouri context.