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Elonis V. United States: The Need To Uphold Individual Rights To Free Speech While Protecting Victims Of Online True Threats, Alison J. Best 2016 University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Elonis V. United States: The Need To Uphold Individual Rights To Free Speech While Protecting Victims Of Online True Threats, Alison J. Best

Maryland Law Review

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Two Views Of First Amendment Thought Privacy, Adam J. Kolber 2016 Brooklyn Law School

Two Views Of First Amendment Thought Privacy, Adam J. Kolber

Faculty Scholarship

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A Tricky Negotiation: Free Speech Versus Insensitivity, Melvin Dilanchian 2016 University of Southern California

A Tricky Negotiation: Free Speech Versus Insensitivity, Melvin Dilanchian

Washington University Undergraduate Law Review

The central question presented in this paper is whether specialty license plates constitute government speech, and are thus subject to disapproval by the Board of the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. The core concerns reviewed in this research, largely focus on defining whose speech specialty license plates are. The purpose is to investigate and analyze the precedent established as a result of a recent case, Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans. The paper thoroughly reviews the arguments made in the majority opinion, as well as those of the dissenting opinion, with an interdisciplinary approach. The argument presented …


Etw Corp. V. Jireb Publishing, Inc.: Turning An Athlete's Publicity Over To The Public, Michael J. Breslin 2016 University of Georgia School of Law

Etw Corp. V. Jireb Publishing, Inc.: Turning An Athlete's Publicity Over To The Public, Michael J. Breslin

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act And The First Amendment: Can They Co-Exist?, Rachel Simpson Shockley 2016 University of Georgia School of Law

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act And The First Amendment: Can They Co-Exist?, Rachel Simpson Shockley

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

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Eldred V. Reno: An Example Of The Law Of Unintended Consequences, L. Ray Patterson 2016 University of Georgia School of Law

Eldred V. Reno: An Example Of The Law Of Unintended Consequences, L. Ray Patterson

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

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Virtual Politics And The 2000 Election: Does First Amendment Protection Extend To Political Speech On The Internet?, Amity Hough Farrar 2016 University of Georgia School of Law

Virtual Politics And The 2000 Election: Does First Amendment Protection Extend To Political Speech On The Internet?, Amity Hough Farrar

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

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A New Test To Reconcile The Right Of Publicity With Core First Amendment Values, Mark Joseph Stern, Nat Stern 2016 Florida State University College of Law

A New Test To Reconcile The Right Of Publicity With Core First Amendment Values, Mark Joseph Stern, Nat Stern

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

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Java: An Innovation In Software Development And A Dilemma In Copyright Law, Michael P. Doerr 2016 University of Georgia School of Law

Java: An Innovation In Software Development And A Dilemma In Copyright Law, Michael P. Doerr

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

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Words Of Wisdom From The Founding Fathers: Why The Internal Revenue Service Should Let Churches Be, Sophia Benavides 2016 Pepperdine University

Words Of Wisdom From The Founding Fathers: Why The Internal Revenue Service Should Let Churches Be, Sophia Benavides

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

Part I of this comment will explore the foundations of the First Amendment, as the Constitution is a framework on which the United States continues to rest. An examination of the events contributing and leading to the drafting of the Constitution will illuminate the rationale behind the tenets put forth by the Founding Fathers. More specifically, this comment will devote emphasis to the Founding Fathers’ objectives regarding the state in relation to religion. This emphasis will provide insight into the perspective of the Founders at the time of drafting the First Amendment. Furthermore, this section will illustrate how the separation …


Will The Real Candidate Please Stand Up?: Political Parody On The Internet, Jon H. Oram 2016 Stanford University

Will The Real Candidate Please Stand Up?: Political Parody On The Internet, Jon H. Oram

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

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To Show, Or Not To Show—That Was The Question: A Discussion Regarding The First Amendment Issues Implicated By The Sony Pictures Entertainment Cyberhack & The Interview Debacle, Chelsey Huso 2016 Pepperdine University

To Show, Or Not To Show—That Was The Question: A Discussion Regarding The First Amendment Issues Implicated By The Sony Pictures Entertainment Cyberhack & The Interview Debacle, Chelsey Huso

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

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Religious Disestablishment And The Fourteenth Amendment, Joseph M. Snee, S.J. 2016 St. John's University School of Law

Religious Disestablishment And The Fourteenth Amendment, Joseph M. Snee, S.J.

The Catholic Lawyer

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Dialogue On State Action, Martin A. Schwartz, Erwin Chemerinsky 2016 Touro Law School

Dialogue On State Action, Martin A. Schwartz, Erwin Chemerinsky

Touro Law Review

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A Response To Mr. Y'Barbo's Reply, L. Ray Patterson 2016 University of Georgia School of Law

A Response To Mr. Y'Barbo's Reply, L. Ray Patterson

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

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On Legal Protection For Electronic Texts: A Reply To Professor Patterson And Judge Birch, Douglas Y'Barbo 2016 Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Houston, Texas

On Legal Protection For Electronic Texts: A Reply To Professor Patterson And Judge Birch, Douglas Y'Barbo

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

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Burning The Village To Roast The Pig: Congressional Attempt To Regulate "Indecency" On The Internet Rejected In Aclu V. Reno, James M. McGee 2016 University of Georgia School of Law

Burning The Village To Roast The Pig: Congressional Attempt To Regulate "Indecency" On The Internet Rejected In Aclu V. Reno, James M. Mcgee

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

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Of Reasonable Readers And Unreasonable Speakers: Libel Law In A Networked World, Lyrissa Lidsky, RonNell Anderson Jones 2016 University of Missouri School of Law

Of Reasonable Readers And Unreasonable Speakers: Libel Law In A Networked World, Lyrissa Lidsky, Ronnell Anderson Jones

Faculty Publications

Social-media libel cases require courts to map existing defamation doctrines onto social-media fact patterns in ways that create adequate breathing space for expression without lincensing character assassination. This Article explores these challenges by investigating developments involving two important constitutional doctrines - the so-called opinion privlege, which protects statements that are unverifiable or cannot be regarded as stating actual facts about a person, and the actual malice rule, which requires defamation plaintiff's who are public officials or public figures to prove that the defendant made a defamatory statement with knowledge of or reckless disregard for, its falsity. Given the critical role …


Lawyer Speech In The Regulatory State, Renee Newman Knake 2016 Michigan State University College of Law

Lawyer Speech In The Regulatory State, Renee Newman Knake

Fordham Law Review

A lawyer’s speech as advisor and advocate not only holds First Amendment value for the client and for the public, but also for the functioning of American democracy. This is supported both by foundational values undergirding the First Amendment as well as Supreme Court doctrine. This Article builds upon that analysis to posit that lawyers for the regulatory state ought not to be treated as government employees for purposes of the First Amendment when engaged in speech about workplace conditions related to curbing abuse of power, corruption, or other illegality. While this position runs counter to the existing precedent of …


Prove Yourselves: Oliver Wendell Holmes And The Obsessions Of Manliness, John M. Kang 2016 St. Thomas University School of Law

Prove Yourselves: Oliver Wendell Holmes And The Obsessions Of Manliness, John M. Kang

West Virginia Law Review

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