Understanding Lakey: Abortion Rights and the Right to Know
February 11, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ziegler of Saint Louis University School of Law says that the increasing popularity of state regulations requiring doctors to perform ostensibly informative procedures prior to an abortion represent a revision of Supreme Court precedent which may result in changes to Firs....... [more] 
DNS Filtering to Fight Internet Piracy Violates the First Amendment
January 13, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Lauren Mack, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Class of 2012, is the Copyright Chair for the Cardozo Intellectual Property Law Society. She argues that two proposed pieces of legislation that seek to curb Internet piracy through the use of DNS filtering violate the First Amend....... [more]
Popular Vote Compact: A Missed Opportunity for Equality
December 15, 2011
JURIST Managing Editor Dwyer Arce, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2012, is the 2011 Janavitz Fellow in First Amendment Law and serves as a Teaching Fellow in the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. He argues that an interstate compact altering presidential elections mi....... [more]
G-20 protestors filed amended suit against Pittsburgh police
December 14, 2011
On December 14, 2009, the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an amended lawsuit against the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police for allegedly violating protest groups' constitutional rights to free speech. The groups had originally f....... [more]
Second Circuit ruled CIA did not infringe ex-agent Plame's free speech rights
November 12, 2011
On November 12, 2009, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) did not violate the free speech rights of former agent Valerie Plame when it sought to prevent her from revealing specific classified information in her memoir. The suit was brought....... [more]
North Carolina Abortion Law Intrudes on Doctor-Patient Relationship
November 6, 2011
JURIST Guest Columnist Melissa Reed, Vice President for Public Policy at Planned Parenthood Health Systems, Inc., says that the recently blocked provisions of a North Carolina abortion law violated First Amendment rights and were a demeaning invasion into the relationship between women and their doc....... [more]
Supreme Court to hear immunity, discrimination, free speech cases
October 17, 2011
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in four cases. In Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, the court will determine whether three oil companies are immune from US lawsuits under the Alien Tort Statute of 1789 for torture and international law violations that took place overseas. In a similar....... [more]
Federal court ruled anti-smoking ads constitutional
September 28, 2011
On September 28, 2004, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that California anti-smoking advertisements do not violate the First Amendment rights of tobacco companies. The case, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Shewry, addressed the issue of whether the graphic anti-smoking campaign violate....... [more]
Federal judge struck down 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'
September 9, 2011
On September 9, 2010, a judge for the US District Court for the Central District of California struck down the US military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (DADT) policy, which banned openly gay individuals from the armed services. The suit was initiated in 2004 by the Log Cabin Republicans, who argued that....... [more]
Sixth Circuit upheld Tennessee school Confederate flag ban
August 20, 2011
On August 20, 2008, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court's grant of summary judgment to a Tennessee public high school in a lawsuit brought by three students who claimed the school's ban on wearing the Confederate flag violated their First Amendment rights under th....... [more]
Federal judge found Missouri funeral protest ban unconstitutional
August 16, 2011
On August 16, 2010, the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri ruled that Missouri laws restricting protests near funerals were unconstitutional. Judge Fernando Gaitan held that two 2006 laws banning protests at funerals violated the First Amendment of the US Constitution, concluding....... [more]
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