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Keeping Mud Off The Bench: The First Amendment And Regulation Of Candidates’ False Or Misleading Statements In Judicial Elections, Adam R. Long
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The First Amendment And Speech-Based Torts: Recalibrating The Balance, Quin S. Landon
The First Amendment And Speech-Based Torts: Recalibrating The Balance, Quin S. Landon
University of Miami Law Review
No abstract provided.
Freedom Of Speech And True Threats, Jennifer E. Rothman
Freedom Of Speech And True Threats, Jennifer E. Rothman
All Faculty Scholarship
This article proposes a new test for determining what is a true threat - speech not protected by the First Amendment. Despite the importance of the true threats exception to the First Amendment, this is an underexplored area of constitutional law.
Even though the Supreme Court has made clear that true threats are punishable, it has not clearly defined what speech constitutes a true threat. To make this determination circuit courts have adopted inconsistent and inadequate tests including a reasonable listener test. The Supreme Court has never granted certiorari to resolve the issue.
The law surrounding threats has gained recent …
Applying Mcintyre V. Ohio Elections Commission To Anonymous Speech On The Internet And The Discovery Of John Doe's Identity, Caroline E. Strickland
Applying Mcintyre V. Ohio Elections Commission To Anonymous Speech On The Internet And The Discovery Of John Doe's Identity, Caroline E. Strickland
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Untangling The World Wide Web: Restricting Children's Access To Adult Materials While Preserving The Freedoms Of Adults, Tim Specht
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This comment examines the current state of the law in the area of internet regulation restricting children's access to adult material. This area of law is very new, with the majority of case precedent developed over just the last five or six years. Although the term "Internet" applies to various aspects of cyberspace including the World Wide Web, e-mail, chat rooms, listservs, newsgroups, FTP sites, and other interactive environments, this essay will focus mainly on the area of the World Wide Web. Part I of this comment provides a brief overview of the U.S. Supreme Court precedent relating to freedom …
Hate And The Bar: Is The Hale Case Mccarthyism Redux Or A Victory For Racial Equality?, W. Bradley Wendel
Hate And The Bar: Is The Hale Case Mccarthyism Redux Or A Victory For Racial Equality?, W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The application of the constitutional free expression guarantee to the activities of the organized bar is one of the most important unexplored areas of legal ethics. In this essay I will consider in particular the question of whether an applicant may be denied admission to the bar for involvement with hateful or discriminatory activities. This question reveals the tension between the first amendment principle, established after the agonizing struggles of the McCarthy era, that no one may be denied membership in the bar because of his or her beliefs alone, and the plenary authority of bar associations to make predictive …
Injustice In Our Schools: Students' Free Speech Rights Are Not Being Vigilantly Protected, Heather K. Lloyd
Injustice In Our Schools: Students' Free Speech Rights Are Not Being Vigilantly Protected, Heather K. Lloyd
Northern Illinois University Law Review
For many years, the Supreme Court and lower courts have been struggling to protect students' free speech rights while allowing school officials to operate schools efficiently and effectively. In the past this balance was struck in favor of protecting students' rights by only allowing regulations that are necessary to avoid substantial disruption to the school environment. For the past fourteen years, however, the balance has been struck in favor of schools and against protecting students' rights by upholding the regulations of school officials as long as they are reasonable. This lower standard of scrutiny for school regulations imposed on students …
Performance And Politics: An Argument For Expanded First Amendment Protection Of Homosexual Expression, Jennifer Minear
Performance And Politics: An Argument For Expanded First Amendment Protection Of Homosexual Expression, Jennifer Minear
Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy
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Antidiscrimination Laws And The First Amendment, David E. Bernstein
Antidiscrimination Laws And The First Amendment, David E. Bernstein
Missouri Law Review
Part I of this Article discusses the development of Supreme Court doctrine regarding First Amendment challenges to the enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. Part II discusses attempted justifications by courts and academics for applying the toothless compelling interest test in conflicts between the First Amendment and antidiscrimination laws. Rationales have ranged from Congress’ purported intent to eradicate discrimination by passing Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to the anti-caste attributes of the Reconstructions Amendments. All of these arguments fail. Also examined is the threat reliance on the compelling interest test posed to the rights of speech, expressive association, and …
First Amendment Protects Crude Protest Of Police Action, Martin A. Schwartz
First Amendment Protects Crude Protest Of Police Action, Martin A. Schwartz
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Off His Rocker: Sports Discipline And Labor Arbitration, Roger I. Abrams
Off His Rocker: Sports Discipline And Labor Arbitration, Roger I. Abrams
Marquette Sports Law Review
No abstract provided.
What Passes For Policy And Proof In First Amendment Litigation?, Rodney A. Smolla
What Passes For Policy And Proof In First Amendment Litigation?, Rodney A. Smolla
Scholarly Articles
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The Use, Nonuse, And Misuse Of Low Value Speech, Arnold H. Loewy
The Use, Nonuse, And Misuse Of Low Value Speech, Arnold H. Loewy
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Inadequacies Of Civil Society: Law's Complementary Role In Regulating Harmful Speech, Andrew E. Taslitz
The Inadequacies Of Civil Society: Law's Complementary Role In Regulating Harmful Speech, Andrew E. Taslitz
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
Fighting Words, Richard L. Abel
Fighting Words, Richard L. Abel
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
No abstract provided.
John Rocker And Employee Discipline For Speech, Lewis Kurlantzick
John Rocker And Employee Discipline For Speech, Lewis Kurlantzick
Marquette Sports Law Review
No abstract provided.
Why Doesn't She Leave? The Collision Of First Amendment Rights And Effective Court Remedies For Victims Of Domestic Violence, Laurie S. Kohn
Why Doesn't She Leave? The Collision Of First Amendment Rights And Effective Court Remedies For Victims Of Domestic Violence, Laurie S. Kohn
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Despite the persistence of the question, social science literature is replete with reasons why a victim does not or cannot leave a battering relationship. Commonly cited explanations include lack of financial resources; fear of physical retribution; lack of access to information about options for escape; enduring love for the batterer and belief he will change; learned helplessness; and depression. This Article, however, focuses on a pervasive and previously unexamined reason: the victim's fear that the batterer will publicize truthful confidential information that will hurt her. If the victim were to seek the court's protection, most state courts have the authority …
Freedom Of Expression In New York State: What Remains Of People Ex Rel. Arcara V. Cloud Books, Inc.?, Jeremy J. Bethel
Freedom Of Expression In New York State: What Remains Of People Ex Rel. Arcara V. Cloud Books, Inc.?, Jeremy J. Bethel
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Note explores the decline of People ex rel. Arcara in New York State jurisprudence over the last decade. It first describes traditional and contemporary methods of testing free expression infringements, including a discussion of federal minimum standards, and protection expansions implemented by the New York Court of Appeals. Next, it describes the effect of federal "secondary effects" jurisprudence upon the People ex rel. Arcara standard, and how that encounter skewed lower court application of that standard for all cases involving "content-neutral" infringement of protected speech. Finally, it examines the illogical consequences of the court of appeals' method of deciding …