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Connecticut High School Student Arrested For Posting Racist Slur

JonathanTurley

Both of those concerns seem to have coalesced in the arrest of a Connecticut high school student accused of posting racist comments about a classmate. The case could present an important court test for this country in resisting the criminalization of speech that we have seen in Europe. The Connecticut arrest comes as the U.S.

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Eminently Overdue: The Supreme Court Considers New York Case That Could Overturn the Infamous Kelo Decision

JonathanTurley

As an academic and a legal commentator, I have sometimes disagreed with the United States Supreme Court, but I often stress the good-faith differences in how certain rights or protections are interpreted. There is now a petition before the Supreme Court that would allow it to reconsider this pernicious precedent. New London.

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SCOTUS Clarifies Reach of FAA Exemption for Transportation Workers

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court held that the Federal Arbitration Act’s (FAA) exemption for transportation workers in interstate commerce applies to transportation workers regardless of whether they work in the transportation industry. Supreme Court’s Decision The Supreme Court unanimously reversed. “A In Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St.,

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SCOTUS to Clarify Standard for Determining Whether True Threat Exception Applies

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in Counterman v. 723 (2015), but ultimately decided the case before reaching the constitutional issue. The Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. The court acknowledged that “[s]ocial media magnify the potential for a speaker’s innocent words to be misunderstood.”

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Can Universities Offer Faculty Race-Based Benefits in Seeking Tenure?

JonathanTurley

There is an interesting controversy brewing at Central Connecticut State University where faculty are being offered funding to assist them in securing tenure. The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on the use of race criteria in the admission of students in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina.

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The “great chief” and the “super chief”: A final showdown in Supreme Court March Madness

SCOTUSBlog

Ask any constitutional law student to name the most iconic Supreme Court decision, and they’ll probably answer Marbury v. Those two landmark rulings stand as the most celebrated decisions the court has ever issued. Maryland : “[W]e must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.” Board of Education.

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Are You in an Anti-Free Speech State? We Now Have The Definitive List

JonathanTurley

Now, a filing in the Supreme Court supporting censorship efforts by the Biden Administration has supplied a handy list of the anti-free speech states for citizens. Not surprisingly, the state of California is leading the effort to get the Supreme Court to reverse a decision enjoining the government from censorship efforts.