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Caging Animal Advocates' Political Freedoms: The Unconstitutionality Of The Animal And Ecological Terrorism Act, Andrew N. Ireland Moore Jan 2005

Caging Animal Advocates' Political Freedoms: The Unconstitutionality Of The Animal And Ecological Terrorism Act, Andrew N. Ireland Moore

Animal Law Review

The animal advocacy movement is facing another obstacle, resulting from the creation of the Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act (AETA). The Act seeks to create harsh penalties including a Terrorist Registry for acts performed by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and ALF-type actors. In addition, the proposed legislation will affect animal advocates not involved with the ALF. However, the model legislation, as written, must pass Constitutional scrutiny. This paper argues that the proposed Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act is unconstitutional due to its infringement on the First Amendment, its overbreadth, and its vagueness.

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The "Do-Not-Call List" Controversy: A Parable Of Privacy And Speech, Rodney A. Smolla Jan 2005

The "Do-Not-Call List" Controversy: A Parable Of Privacy And Speech, Rodney A. Smolla

Law Faculty Publications

The controversy surrounding the constitutional challenge to the federal telemarketing "Do-Not-Call List" is a revealing parable of modern American life. The questions of First Amendment policy and doctrine posed by the challenge to the list are interesting in their own right. The real interest lies, however, not in the doctrinal chess moves themselves, but in the patterns of the larger match those moves reveal. ...

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Not Playing Around: The Chilling Power Of The Federal Trademark Dilution Act Of 1995, Julie Zando-Dennis Jan 2005

Not Playing Around: The Chilling Power Of The Federal Trademark Dilution Act Of 1995, Julie Zando-Dennis

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 (FTDA) has become a powerful tool for corporations to suppress criticism and parody, undermining free speech by allowing broad claims of trademark dilution without requiring proof of consumer confusion. The note argues that the FTDA’s provisions against dilution, including blurring and tarnishment, disproportionately favor corporate interests over First Amendment rights, particularly in cases involving parody and satire. Courts have inconsistently applied the law, with some circuits offering protections for parody while others prioritize trademark protection, creating uncertainty and chilling artistic and activist expression. The note advocates for reform to balance trademark rights with …

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Law And Liberty In Virtual Worlds, Jack M. Balkin Jan 2005

Law And Liberty In Virtual Worlds, Jack M. Balkin

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Public Availability Or Practical Obscurity: The Debate Over Public Access To Court Records On The Internet, Arminda Bradford Bepko Jan 2005

Public Availability Or Practical Obscurity: The Debate Over Public Access To Court Records On The Internet, Arminda Bradford Bepko

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Video Games As A Protected Form Of Expression, Paul E. Salamanca Jan 2005

Video Games As A Protected Form Of Expression, Paul E. Salamanca

Georgia Law Review

Video games, like motion pictures, failed to qualify for First Amendment protection until well after they emerged as a medium. Today, a number of courts have held that such games constitute a form of expression and do not fall into any recognized category of unprotected speech. Nevertheless, a number of commentators have called for limited constitutional protection for video games, predicating their arguments on a variety of grounds, including the alleged deleterious effects of such games on children. This Article responds to these commentators and defends recent decisions extending protection to video games.

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The Band From Hell: An Examinatioin Of Suicide On Stage As Expressive Conduct Under The First Amendment, Elizabeth Cameron Jan 2005

The Band From Hell: An Examinatioin Of Suicide On Stage As Expressive Conduct Under The First Amendment, Elizabeth Cameron

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

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Buttletproof Speech: Are Political Books Beyond Litigation's Reach, Emily Kirstine Wacker Jan 2005

Buttletproof Speech: Are Political Books Beyond Litigation's Reach, Emily Kirstine Wacker

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.

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City Of Littleton V. Z.J. Gifts D-4, L.L.C.: Are We Losing The First Amendment, Or Just Adult Businesses, Karen Cynn Jan 2005

City Of Littleton V. Z.J. Gifts D-4, L.L.C.: Are We Losing The First Amendment, Or Just Adult Businesses, Karen Cynn

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.

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Panel Presentation Transcript: Symposium: Free Speech In Wartime, Nadine Strossen Jan 2005

Panel Presentation Transcript: Symposium: Free Speech In Wartime, Nadine Strossen

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.

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Society’S Software, Beth Simone Noveck, David R. Johnson Jan 2005

Society’S Software, Beth Simone Noveck, David R. Johnson

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.

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Ending Pay-To-Play In The Municipal Securities Business: Msrb Rule G-3 7 Ten Years Later, Kevin Opp Jan 2005

Ending Pay-To-Play In The Municipal Securities Business: Msrb Rule G-3 7 Ten Years Later, Kevin Opp

University of Colorado Law Review

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Changing Minds: Proselytism, Freedom, And The First Amendment, Richard W. Garnett Jan 2005

Changing Minds: Proselytism, Freedom, And The First Amendment, Richard W. Garnett

Journal Articles

Proselytism is, as Paul Griffiths has observed, a topic enjoying renewed attention in recent years. What's more, the practice, aims, and effects of proselytism are increasingly framed not merely in terms of piety and zeal; they are seen as matters of geopolitical, cultural, and national-security significance as well. Indeed, it is fair to say that one of today's more pressing challenges is the conceptual and practical tangle of religious liberty, free expression, cultural integrity, and political stability. This essay is an effort to unravel that tangle by drawing on the religious-freedom-related work and teaching of the late Pope John Paul …

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Title Blanding: How The Lanham Act Strips Artistic Expression From Song Titles, Lisa Tomiko Blackburn Jan 2005

Title Blanding: How The Lanham Act Strips Artistic Expression From Song Titles, Lisa Tomiko Blackburn

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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The "Privilege Of Speech" In A "Pleasantly Authoritarian Country", Hans C. Clausen Jan 2005

The "Privilege Of Speech" In A "Pleasantly Authoritarian Country", Hans C. Clausen

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Giving credence to Alexis de Tocqueville's argument that in democratic societies the love of equality is greater than the love of freedom is a recently emerging trend among Western nations to legally proscribe speech critical of homosexuality. Such laws, in various forms, now exist in a large and growing minority of countries in Europe and North America. The goal of these laws is much grander than preventing discrimination against homosexuals; rather, the objective is seemingly to promote the social acceptance of gay and lesbian lifestyles. These laws provide for civil remedies and in some instances even criminal sanctions for speech …

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Holmes And The Marketplace Of Ideas, Vincent A. Blasi Jan 2005

Holmes And The Marketplace Of Ideas, Vincent A. Blasi

Faculty Scholarship

At least five basic values might be served by a robust free speech principle: (1) individual autonomy; (2) truth seeking; (3) self-government; (4) the checking of abuses of power; (5) the promotion of good character. Free speech might serve one or more of these values by functioning in at least three different ways: (1) as a privileged activity; (2) as a social mechanism; (3) as a cultural force. My contention is that the conventional understanding of the most familiar metaphor in the First Amendment lexicon, the "marketplace of ideas," has had the undesirable effect of focusing attention too much on …

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The Permissible Scope Of Legal Limitations On The Freedom Of Religion Or Belief In The United States, Frederick Mark Gedicks Jan 2005

The Permissible Scope Of Legal Limitations On The Freedom Of Religion Or Belief In The United States, Frederick Mark Gedicks

Faculty Scholarship

This article summarizes the law of legal limitations on religious freedom in the UnitedStates, including sources and hierarchies of applicable law, structural limitations on religious freedom, grounds for limiting such freedom, an analytical description oflimitations, and background influences on limitations law, and applies this law to hypothetical situations.

Federal judicial decisions interpreting the Religion Clauses are the principal source oflimitations law in the United States. RLUIPA and RFRA, federal anti-discrimination statutes, and executive orders are other important sources of religious freedom law. State constitutions, statutes, and regulations are important sources law when federal sources are absent or inapplicable. International human …

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Considering Individual Religious Freedoms Under Tribal Constitutional Law, Kristen A. Carpenter Jan 2005

Considering Individual Religious Freedoms Under Tribal Constitutional Law, Kristen A. Carpenter

Publications

As American Indian nations revitalize their legal systems, there is renewed interest in "tribal law," that is, the law of each of the Indian nations. Today, there is a particular focus on the subject of "individual rights" under tribal law. In tribal contexts, people are highly interested in the legal institutions and rules that govern their lives, especially as many tribal communities are experiencing a period of great political, social, and economic change. At the national level, the Supreme Court repeatedly expresses concern about whether individuals, especially non-Indians, will be treated fairly in tribal court. For scholars, individual rights under …

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In Cases Involving Sites Of Religious Significance, Plaintiffs Will Fall In The Gap Of Judicial Deference That Exists Between The Religion Clauses Of The First Amendment, Jeff Pinter Jan 2005

In Cases Involving Sites Of Religious Significance, Plaintiffs Will Fall In The Gap Of Judicial Deference That Exists Between The Religion Clauses Of The First Amendment, Jeff Pinter

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Scylla Or Charybdis: Navigating The Jurisprudence Of Visual Clutter, M. Ryan Calo Jan 2005

Scylla Or Charybdis: Navigating The Jurisprudence Of Visual Clutter, M. Ryan Calo

Michigan Law Review

This Note argues that passing close to Discovery Network is the safest route - municipalities can still drastically reduce visual clutter by regulating commercial speech alone without violating the First Amendment. Part I looks at the onsite/offsite distinction, a singularly popular method of sign regulation, and concludes that this distinction runs squarely afoul of Metromedia. Part II looks at the once-accepted alternative route - the commercial/noncommercial distinction - and argues that this distinction does not run afoul of Discovery Network. Rather, a close reading of Discovery Network permits the regulation of exclusively commercial billboards where, as typically, they …

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A Curious Concurrence: Justice Brandeis' Vote In Whitney V. California, David Skover, Ronald Collins Jan 2005

A Curious Concurrence: Justice Brandeis' Vote In Whitney V. California, David Skover, Ronald Collins

Faculty Articles

A piece of jurisprudential sleuthing, this article uncovers the back story for a puzzle unanswered by legal historians for some eighty years: Why would the free-speech libertarian Louis Brandeis write the most famous paean to First Amendment normative values in his opinion in Whitney v. United States, and yet join (by way of a concurring opinion) the judgment of the majority of the Court that would have sent the "patrician radical" Anita Whitney to prison for a 14-year term solely for participating in the formation of the California Communist Labor Party? Part of the puzzle is provided by the unpublished …

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Review Of Refuge Of A Scoundrel: The Patriot Act In Libraries, Glenda A. Thornton Jan 2005

Review Of Refuge Of A Scoundrel: The Patriot Act In Libraries, Glenda A. Thornton

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

Review of Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Patriot Act In Libraries

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Scylla Or Charybdis: Navigating The Jurisprudence Of Visual Clutter, Ryan Calo Jan 2005

Scylla Or Charybdis: Navigating The Jurisprudence Of Visual Clutter, Ryan Calo

Articles

State and local governments seeking to address the proliferation of billboards and other outdoor advertising must negotiate two obstacles of First Amendment law. The first is the Supreme Court’s 1981 decision in Metromedia, Inc. v. City of San Diego. Following Metromedia, regulators can neither select among noncommercial messages nor privilege commercial messages over noncommercial ones. For years, regulators navigated around Metromedia by drawing a distinction between commercial and noncommercial speech. Then came the Supreme Court’s decision in City of Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, holding that regulators had to account for why they were privileging noncommercial over commercial …

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Is There A "Religious Question" Doctrine?: Judicial Authority To Examine Religious Practices And Beliefs, Jared Goldstein Jan 2005

Is There A "Religious Question" Doctrine?: Judicial Authority To Examine Religious Practices And Beliefs, Jared Goldstein

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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The Other Sullivan Case, Garrett Epps, Garrett Epps Jan 2005

The Other Sullivan Case, Garrett Epps, Garrett Epps

All Faculty Scholarship

The standard triumphalist narrative of NEW YORK TIMES V. SULLIVAN celebrates the Supreme Court's defense of free speech and press in the case's vindication of powerful journalistic institution. Ignored in this story is the story of the local defendants, civil rights leaders in Alabama who had their solvency threatened by the state courts' vindictive action against them. These defendants challenged the segregated proceedings used in court to affix liability to them—but the Supreme Court ignored their arguments and ignored the racial-equality and individual-rights aspects of the case. From their point of view, SULLIVAN might be so unalloyed a triumph.

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Anatomy Of An Oral Argument, Rodney A. Smolla Jan 2005

Anatomy Of An Oral Argument, Rodney A. Smolla

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Content And Context: The Contributions Of William Van Alstyne To First Amendment Interpretation, Rodney A. Smolla Jan 2005

Content And Context: The Contributions Of William Van Alstyne To First Amendment Interpretation, Rodney A. Smolla

Law Faculty Publications

William Van Alstyne’s contributions to First Amendment interpretation, like his contributions to all of American constitutional law, are characterized by a piercing intellectual honesty and an impish play of intelligence. One feels relentlessly pulled by the elegant currents of Professor Van Alsytne’s arguments, yet, at the same time, restlessly resistant, a resistance borne of the vague but certain wariness that one is but an apprentice forever consigned to a level of awareness several moves behind the master, who almost certainly will produce surprises at the end. ...

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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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The First Amendment's Original Sin, Lee C. Bollinger Jan 2005

The First Amendment's Original Sin, Lee C. Bollinger

Faculty Scholarship

Times of war place considerable stress on civil liberties, especially ones protected by the First Amendment. When the nation must gather itself to fight an enemy who is intent on killing us, it is perhaps only natural that our tolerance for the usual disorder of dissent will decline. When everyone has to sacrifice for the common good, when fellow citizens are dying in that cause, the costs of speech are visible and serious. Dissent may dissuade or discourage soldiers from fighting; sowing doubt may weaken resolve just when it's needed most; falsehoods and misinformation may lead to catastrophic shifts of …

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The New Censorship: Institutional Review Boards, Philip A. Hamburger Jan 2005

The New Censorship: Institutional Review Boards, Philip A. Hamburger

Faculty Scholarship

Do federal regulations on Institutional Review Boards violate the First Amendment? Do these regulations establish a new sort of censorship? And what does this reveal about the role of the Supreme Court?

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