Wednesday Writs: First Amendment in Shurtleff v Boston
Some nice First Amendment red meat. This week’s case of the week is hot off the SCOTUS press: Shurtleff v. Boston
Tagged: First Amendment
Supreme Court, The First Amendment, and The Cursing Cheerleader: Read It For Yourself
SCOTUS ruled 8-1 that a Snapchat video of a cheerleader telling her school to go…well, anyway she has a first amendment right to do so.
Ruling in Shawnee State “Preferred Pronouns” Case: Read It For Yourself
The Sixth Circuit ruled 3-0 that the Shawnee State “Preferred Pronouns” case is covered by the First Amendment and a professor cannot be compelled to use a students preferred pronouns.
Wednesday Writs: Chief Justice Roberts All By Himself
Chief Justice Roberts finds the majority’s decision to be an unwise expansion on the power and purview of federal courts
Pity Parler 3: Amazon Brings the Receipts in Lawsuit Filing
It is becoming clear Parler did not do their own due diligence in the design, intention, and operation of their product.
A Threat to Religious Liberty? Hardly.
In reality, though, religious conservatives do not have much to fear from the Roberts Court
The Pending Discovery of Alex Jones
There is still quite a bit of doubt that the lawsuit will be successful. Still, the fulcrum point of any civic action as to whether it is going anywhere or not is discovery, and having probing eyes into his operations is something Alex Jones cannot be happy about.
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The 2016 First Monday In October Report Is Here!
A preview of selected cases appearing on the United States Supreme Court’s docket for the 2016-2017 Term.
SIHTAF: Pleading Prisoners’ Plasticity of Personal Piety
When an atheist prisoner self-identifies as Jewish, it provides an insight into the engine driving what Burt Likko predicts will become the next wave of litigation by the incarcerated against their jailers.
Review Of The Charges
A close look at the law and the allegations suggests that outrage about the Brandon Duncan prosecution may be based on incomplete information. Burt Likko dissects the charges and the law for your review, compares that to the advice of his colleagues, and then finishes his nightcap.
Minimum Beard, Maximum Deference
Turns out, a Muslim prisoner has a right to grow a beard even if the warden doesn’t want him to. Burt Likko digests today’s big SCOTUS case of Holt v. Hobbs to reveal something about what this means for those of us who aren’t Muslims in prison.
First Monday 2014
Same cast, brand new season! Burt Likko offers a look at some of the high points of the Supreme Court’s docket for the 2014-2015 Term.
2013-2014 Term Recap (Save Two)
It’s the close of the term, and here’s a recap of the major cases from SCOTUS this year. Some surprising results. Some, not so much. Alsotoo: we’re waiting until Monday for the Hobby Lobby and Harris decisions.
Free Speech Is Dead, Donald Sterling Edition
First, it was Brendan Eich, a heroic American whose only alleged transgression was lending financial support to a political movement explicitly predicated on the idea that gays were a threat to the safety and...
Sorry, Tea Leaf Readers
A potentially mighty case dies not with a shout, but with a one-sentence memorandum, full of legal formality, signifying nothing.
To No One’s Surprise
A squib of a post about this morning’s Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC. Very brief: aggregate campaign donation limits unconstitutional.
SIHTAF: The Video Game Addiction Lawsuit
SIHTAF means “S[omething] I’ll Have To Apologize For,” as in readily-mockable conduct by a brother or sister member of the bar. Today, I contemplate my cocktail-party response to some guy suing video game publishers because his adult son has become a Playstation waste-oid.
The Ethics and Incentives of Socialized Law
Noam Scheiber makes a radical suggestion. Eric Posner has lots of reasons why it’ll never work. Burt Likko says, “There’s a few things neither of you bright fellows have thought of.”
