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Smith And Women's Equality, Leslie C. Griffin 2011 University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

Smith And Women's Equality, Leslie C. Griffin

Scholarly Works

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The Media, The Jury, And The High-Profile Defendant: A Defense Perspective On The Media Circus, John C. Meringolo 2011 New York Law School

The Media, The Jury, And The High-Profile Defendant: A Defense Perspective On The Media Circus, John C. Meringolo

NYLS Law Review

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The Overhyped Path From Tinker To Morse: How The Student Speech Cases Show The Limits Of Supreme Court Decisions--For The Law And For The Litigants, Scott A. Moss 2011 University of Colorado Law School

The Overhyped Path From Tinker To Morse: How The Student Speech Cases Show The Limits Of Supreme Court Decisions--For The Law And For The Litigants, Scott A. Moss

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Each of the Supreme Court's high school student speech cases reflected the social angst of its era. In 1965's Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, three Iowa teens broke school rules to wear armbands protesting the Vietnam War. In 1983, amidst parental and political upset about youth exposure to sexuality in the media, Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser and Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier allowed the censorship of an innuendo-filled student government speech and a school newspaper article on teen pregnancy and parental divorce. In 2007, Morse v. Frederick paralleled the rise of reality television …


Law School Clinics And The First Amendment, Jonathan L. Entin 2011 Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Law School Clinics And The First Amendment, Jonathan L. Entin

Faculty Publications

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Bob Dylan On Lenny Bruce: More Of An Outlaw Than You Ever Were, Louise Harmon 2011 Touro Law Center

Bob Dylan On Lenny Bruce: More Of An Outlaw Than You Ever Were, Louise Harmon

Scholarly Works

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Have You Been Drinking Tonight Ms. Prynne - Ohio's Scarlet Letter For Ovi/Dui Offenders: A Violation Of First Amendment Protection Against Compelled Speech, William Livingston 2011 Cleveland State University

Have You Been Drinking Tonight Ms. Prynne - Ohio's Scarlet Letter For Ovi/Dui Offenders: A Violation Of First Amendment Protection Against Compelled Speech, William Livingston

Cleveland State Law Review

This note examines the history of scarlet letter punishments. These types of sanctions raise many constitutional concerns; this Note will specifically address First Amendment compelled speech. Different standards of constitutional review for First Amendment violations and probation conditions will also be discussed. The note will also explain how Ohio's special license plate violates the First Amendment. Because the license plate is a legislative requirement that infringes upon free speech and eliminates judicial sentencing discretion, the state's interest must pass strict scrutiny. This analysis will confirm that the state's interest is legitimate but not compelling. The special license plate fails to …


The Constitutional Status Of Speech About Oneself, R. George Wright 2011 Cleveland State University

The Constitutional Status Of Speech About Oneself, R. George Wright

Cleveland State Law Review

We have accepted above the well-established idea that speech about oneself that is also intended to convey some sort of political idea or to address some matter of public concern can typically be distinguished from speech about oneself with no such further intent. On this basis, we have argued, contrary to recent contentions, that the latter sort of speech-speech that is "merely" about the self, or about one's merely personal or private concerns-should not generally qualify for any sort of elevated free speech protection. Fundamentally, this is because such speech does not systematically promote any of the consensually recognized and …


Historical Roots Of Citizens United Vs. Fec: How Anarchists And Academics Accidentally Created Corporate Speech Rights, The General Essay, Zephyr Teachout 2011 Fordham University School of Law

Historical Roots Of Citizens United Vs. Fec: How Anarchists And Academics Accidentally Created Corporate Speech Rights, The General Essay, Zephyr Teachout

Faculty Scholarship

This paper looks at how the early rhetoric around the First Amendment enabled later development of corporate political speech rights.


Cohen V. Google, Inc., Eirik Cheverud 2011 New York Law School Class of 2011

Cohen V. Google, Inc., Eirik Cheverud

NYLS Law Review

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Reviving Slander, Cristina Carmody Tilley 2011 Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

Reviving Slander, Cristina Carmody Tilley

Faculty Publications

Roman law treated differently speech restricted to small, closed communities and speech within or among large, permeable communities. Intracommunity speech was subject to unlimited tort consequences, while intercommunity speech was subject to central government regulation. As English speech law evolved, slander rules governing spoken speech became a convenient proxy for intracommunity speech regulation, while libel rules governing written speech became a convenient proxy for intercommunity speech. In American law, the conceptual collapse of slander and libel meant that constitutional limits designed to lift central government regulation of intercommunity speech perhaps inadvertently vitiated tort consequences for intracommunity speech. The Supreme Court's …


The End Of Indecency - The Second Circuit Invalidates The Fcc's Indecency Policy In Fox Televisions Stations, Inc. V. Fcc, John V. O'Grady 2011 Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

The End Of Indecency - The Second Circuit Invalidates The Fcc's Indecency Policy In Fox Televisions Stations, Inc. V. Fcc, John V. O'Grady

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

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Kiddie Porn In The Gallery: Defending The Artist's Corpus Or Invading The Corporal Integrity Of The Subject, Jessica N. White 2011 Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

Kiddie Porn In The Gallery: Defending The Artist's Corpus Or Invading The Corporal Integrity Of The Subject, Jessica N. White

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

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Brand Renegades, Jeremy N. Sheff 2011 St. John's University School of Law

Brand Renegades, Jeremy N. Sheff

Faculty Publications

Recent appearances of trademarks in popular culture-in rap lyrics, on reality TV shows, even in youth riots have raised the question whether the owners of those trademarks might pursue legal remedies to protect their brands from unwanted social associations. This Article argues that they cannot, and that we should understand this limitation on trademark rights as grounded in a principle that consumption of certain brands is an expressive act that First Amendment principles place outside trademark owners' control.


The Curious Life Of In Loco Parentis At American Universities, Philip Lee 2011 St. John's University School of Law

The Curious Life Of In Loco Parentis At American Universities, Philip Lee

Faculty Publications

In this article I trace the legal history, through court opinions, of in loco parentis (Latin for “in the place of the parent”) as applied to the relationship between American universities and their students. I demonstrate that until the 1960s, the in loco parentis doctrine allowed universities to exercise great discretion in developing the “character” of their students without respect to their students’ constitutional rights. The demise of this doctrine forced courts, and universities themselves, to redefine the relationship of universities with their students in important ways.


Religious Freedom, Church-State Separation, And The Ministerial Exception, Thomas C. Berg, Kimberlee Wood Colby, Carl H. Esbeck, Richard W. Garnett 2011 University of St. Thomas School of Law

Religious Freedom, Church-State Separation, And The Ministerial Exception, Thomas C. Berg, Kimberlee Wood Colby, Carl H. Esbeck, Richard W. Garnett

Journal Articles

The Hosanna-Tabor case concerns the separation of church and state, an arrangement that is often misunderstood but is nevertheless a critical dimension of the freedom of religion protected by the First Amendment to our Constitution. For nearly a thousand years, the tradition of Western constitutionalism - the project of protecting political freedom by marking boundaries to the power of government - has been assisted by the principled commitment to religious liberty and to church-state separation, correctly understood. A community that respects - as ours does - both the importance of, and the distinction between, the spheres of political and religious …


A Fundamental Right To Read: Reader Privacy Protections In The U.S. Constitution, Eric Robertson 2011 University of Colorado Law School

A Fundamental Right To Read: Reader Privacy Protections In The U.S. Constitution, Eric Robertson

University of Colorado Law Review

Bookstore customers and library patrons typically expect their book purchases and book-borrowing habits to remain private, but what is the legal basis for this expectation and is it justified? This Comment examines court decisions, readers' privacy scholarship, and First Amendment jurisprudence in search of a consistent answer. Although courts and scholars have taken different approaches in identifying a right to readers' privacy and what activity it encompasses, this Comment concludes that a right to reader privacy is fundamental under the First Amendment. In the end, this Comment seeks to provide a simplified solution to the complex constitutional issues that can …


Pornography As Pollution, John Copeland Nagle 2011 Notre Dame Law School

Pornography As Pollution, John Copeland Nagle

Journal Articles

Pornography is often compared to pollution. But little effort has been made to consider what it means to describe pornography as a pollution problem, even as many legal scholars have concluded that the law has failed to control internet pornography. Opponents of pornography maintain passionate convictions about how sexually-explicit materials harm both those who are exposed to them and the broader cultural environment. Viewers of pornography may generally hold less fervent beliefs, but champions of free speech and of a free internet object to anti-pornography regulations with strong convictions of their own. The challenge is how to address the widespread …


Adult Websites And The Top-Level Domain Debate: Icann's Adoption Of .Xxx Dras Adult-Industry Ire, Robert D. Richards, Clay Calvert 2011 The Pennsylvania State University

Adult Websites And The Top-Level Domain Debate: Icann's Adoption Of .Xxx Dras Adult-Industry Ire, Robert D. Richards, Clay Calvert

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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The Association Of Adult Businesses With Secondary Effects: Legal Doctrine Social Theory, And Empirical Evidence, Alan C. Weinstein, Richard McCleary 2011 Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

The Association Of Adult Businesses With Secondary Effects: Legal Doctrine Social Theory, And Empirical Evidence, Alan C. Weinstein, Richard Mccleary

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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Citizens United, Stevens And Humanitarian Law Project: First Amendment Rules And Standards In Three Acts, William D. Araiza 2011 Brooklyn Law School

Citizens United, Stevens And Humanitarian Law Project: First Amendment Rules And Standards In Three Acts, William D. Araiza

Faculty Scholarship

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