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Free To Fortune 500! The Debate Over Corporate Speech And The First Amendment, Rodney A. Smolla Jan 2004

Free To Fortune 500! The Debate Over Corporate Speech And The First Amendment, Rodney A. Smolla

Law Faculty Publications

While the Supreme Court shirked the merits of the corporate free speech debate in Nike v. Kasky with the cryptic dispatch that the petition for a writ of certiorari was "improvidently granted," the decision of those who organized this Symposium to proceed with scholarly commentary on the case was not improvidently made. One will find no shirkers here. ...


Cross Burning: Virginia V. Black, Rodney A. Smolla Jan 2004

Cross Burning: Virginia V. Black, Rodney A. Smolla

Law Faculty Publications

My first encounter with Virginia's cross-burning law was in a meeting of the Virginia ACLU Legal Panel. I sat in a group of about a dozen other volunteer lawyers listening as potential cases were presented to the panel for review. We were told the story of a Ku Klux Klan leader who had been arrested for burning a cross during a Ku Klux Klan rally conducted on a backwoods farm in southwestern Virginia, with the permission of a landowner. A copy of the Virginia cross-burning statute was distributed for us to read:

It shall be unlawful for any person or …


Jon Newman’S Theory Of Disparagement And The First Amendment In The Administrative State, Edward L. Rubin Jan 2003

Jon Newman’S Theory Of Disparagement And The First Amendment In The Administrative State, Edward L. Rubin

NYLS Law Review

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Smolla Argues Before The Highest Court: Cross-Burning Case Explores Free-Speech Controversy, John G. Douglass Jan 2003

Smolla Argues Before The Highest Court: Cross-Burning Case Explores Free-Speech Controversy, John G. Douglass

Law Faculty Publications

A First Amendment advocate's greatest burden can be his own client. Those clients range from the offbeat to the dangerous, from pornographers to neo-Nazis. Yet in standing up for the disreputable client, the free speech advocate stands for one of more cherished freedoms: "If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable." Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 414 (1989). As one of the nation's leading First Amendment advocates, Allen Professor Rodney Smolla understands that burden …


Racial Identity, Electoral Structures, And The First Amendment Right Of Association, Guy-Uriel Charles Jan 2003

Racial Identity, Electoral Structures, And The First Amendment Right Of Association, Guy-Uriel Charles

Faculty Scholarship

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Ub Viewpoint – Dissolving The Shadows, Eric Easton Nov 2002

Ub Viewpoint – Dissolving The Shadows, Eric Easton

All Faculty Scholarship

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Choice Programs And Market-Based Separationism, Paul E. Salamanca Oct 2002

Choice Programs And Market-Based Separationism, Paul E. Salamanca

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The Supreme Court's recent decision in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris appears to clear the way for a wide variety of educational and charitable choice plans. In this decision, the Court upheld against Establishment Cause Challenge a formally neutral school choice program that encompassed a wide variety of options in the public and private sector, including private sectarian schools. The Court reasoned that, when the government makes aid available to a broad class of recipients without regard to their religious or non-religious affiliation, and when the recipients have a genuine choice as to whether to obtain that aid from a religious or …


Church-State Constitutional Issues: Making Sense Of The Establishment Clause And That Godless Court?: Supreme Court Decision On Church-State Relationships (Book Reviews), Michael Ariens Jan 2001

Church-State Constitutional Issues: Making Sense Of The Establishment Clause And That Godless Court?: Supreme Court Decision On Church-State Relationships (Book Reviews), Michael Ariens

Faculty Articles

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Supreme Court Section 1983 Developments: October 1998 Term, Martin A. Schwartz Jan 2000

Supreme Court Section 1983 Developments: October 1998 Term, Martin A. Schwartz

Touro Law Review

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Damage Control? A Comment On Professor Neuman’S Reading Of Reno V. Aadc, David Cole Jan 2000

Damage Control? A Comment On Professor Neuman’S Reading Of Reno V. Aadc, David Cole

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This comment responds to an article by Professor Gerald Neuman on the Supreme Court's recent decision in Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (AADC). The Court in AADC rejected a selective prosecution claim by immigrants targeted for deportation based on First Amendment-protected activities, finding that Congress had stripped the federal courts of jurisdiction over such claims, and that in any event the Constitution does not recognize a selective prosecution objection to a deportation proceeding. Professor Neuman argues that the decision should not be read as implying that aliens have less First Amendment protection than citizens, and that the decision can …


Francis Bacon Takes On The Ghouls: The "First Principles" Of Religious Freedom, Richard W. Garnett Jan 2000

Francis Bacon Takes On The Ghouls: The "First Principles" Of Religious Freedom, Richard W. Garnett

Journal Articles

John Witte, Jr.
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment:
Essential Rights and Liberties
Westview Press 2000

From the Review

This is a great time for students of the First Amendment's Religion Clauses and of what Professor John Witte calls the American "experiment" with religious freedom. We've been blessed these past few years with an in-print seminar - an upper-division offering, team-taught by faculty heavyweights - on this experiment, its products and prospects, and the values that have shaped it. Our teachers and texts have included, to name just a few, Professor Steven Smith's Foreordained Failure: The Constitutional Quest for a …


Nea V. Finley: A Decision In Search Of A Rationale, Lackland H. Bloom Jr. Jan 1999

Nea V. Finley: A Decision In Search Of A Rationale, Lackland H. Bloom Jr.

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Debate has raged over whether Congress can constitutionally restrict, or at least influence, the ability of the National Endowment for the Arts (“NEA”) to award grants to artists and institutions for the creation or display of art work that a significant segment of the public would consider highly offensive. In the October 1997 Term, the Supreme Court, by an 8-1 margin in NEA v. Finley, upheld section 954(d), a 1991 congressional amendment to the NEA Act that requires the Chairperson of the NEA to ensure that, in establishing regulations and procedures for assessing artistic excellence and artistic merit, “general standards …


The Establishment Clause And Government Religious Displays: The Court That Stole Christmas, Jennifer H. Greenhalgh Jan 1999

The Establishment Clause And Government Religious Displays: The Court That Stole Christmas, Jennifer H. Greenhalgh

Touro Law Review

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What's Wrong With This Picture?: The National Endowment For The Arts And The "Decency And Respect" Standard, Lillian M. Spiess Jan 1999

What's Wrong With This Picture?: The National Endowment For The Arts And The "Decency And Respect" Standard, Lillian M. Spiess

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Establishment Of Religion, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department: Robbins V. Bright Jan 1998

Establishment Of Religion, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department: Robbins V. Bright

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Free Speech, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department: Urbach V. Farrell Jan 1998

Free Speech, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department: Urbach V. Farrell

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Political Association, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department: Kalkstein V. Dinapoli Jan 1998

Political Association, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department: Kalkstein V. Dinapoli

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Free Speech, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department: Macfarlane V. Village Of Scotia Jan 1998

Free Speech, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department: Macfarlane V. Village Of Scotia

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Section 1983 In The Second Circuit, Honorable George C. Pratt Jan 1997

Section 1983 In The Second Circuit, Honorable George C. Pratt

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Speech And Press Jan 1996

Freedom Of Speech And Press

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Speech And Press Jan 1996

Freedom Of Speech And Press

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Speech And Press Jan 1996

Freedom Of Speech And Press

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Rights And Freedoms Under The State Constitution: A New Deal For Welfare Rights, Sandra M. Stevenson, Eve Cary, Mary Falk, Helen Hershkoff, Robert A. Heverly Jan 1996

Rights And Freedoms Under The State Constitution: A New Deal For Welfare Rights, Sandra M. Stevenson, Eve Cary, Mary Falk, Helen Hershkoff, Robert A. Heverly

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Speech And Press Jan 1996

Freedom Of Speech And Press

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Speech And Press Jan 1996

Freedom Of Speech And Press

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Cross-Examination Jan 1996

Cross-Examination

Touro Law Review

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Free Exercise Of Religion Jan 1996

Free Exercise Of Religion

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Speech And Press Jan 1996

Freedom Of Speech And Press

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Speech And Press Jan 1996

Freedom Of Speech And Press

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of Speech And Press Jan 1996

Freedom Of Speech And Press

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.