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First Amendment: Speech Recent Case

Garnier v. O’Connor-Ratcliff

Ninth Circuit Finds First Amendment Violation in School District Officials' Blocking of Parents on Social Media.

Vol. 136 No. 5 March 2023

Ku Klux Klan Act Essay

The Anti-Klan Act in the Twenty-First Century

Vol. 136 No. 4 February 2023 Racial terrorism by organized hate groups and “lone wolf” vigilantes presents a growing societal danger. Increasingly, the planning and recruitment for such plots occur...

William M. Carter Jr.

First Amendment: Speech Recent Case

Price v. Garland

D.C. Circuit Holds that Filming in Public Forums Is Subject to Lower Level of First Amendment Protection Than Expressive Activities.

Vol. 136 No. 4 February 2023

Content Moderation Article

Content Moderation as Systems Thinking

Vol. 136 No. 2 December 2022 This Article argues that content moderation should instead be understood as a project of mass speech administration and that looking past a post-by-post evaluation of platform decisionmaking reveals a complex and dynamic system that needs a more proactive and continuous form of governance than the vehicle of individual error correction allows.

Evelyn Douek

First Amendment: Speech Leading Case

City of Austin v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC

Vol. 136 No. 1 November 2022 Imagine three kinds of statutes: The first limits only signs displaying political messaging. The second restricts only signs directing passersby to nearby events. And...

First Amendment Leading Case

Shurtleff v. City of Boston

Vol. 136 No. 1 November 2022 In heraldry, descriptions of flags are to be “most concise, . . . always minutely exact, definite, and explicit.” The same cannot be said for the Free Speech...

First Amendment Leading Case

FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate

Vol. 136 No. 1 November 2022 Candidates for federal office may loan an unlimited amount of their own money to their campaign committees. However, under section 304 of the Bipartisan...

Constitutional Law Recent Case

Burns v. Town of Palm Beach

Eleventh Circuit Rejects First Amendment Claim for Residential Architecture.

Vol. 135 No. 8 June 2022

Constitutional Law Recent Case

Meriwether v. Hartop

Sixth Circuit Holds Public University Professor Plausibly Alleged Free Speech Right Not to Use Trans Student's Pronouns

Vol. 135 No. 7 May 2022

Constitutional Law Recent Case

Campbell v. Reisch

Eighth Circuit Finds State Representative Not a State Actor When Blocking Constituents on Twitter

Vol. 135 No. 6 April 2022