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Supreme Court to Consider Constitutionality of State Social Media Laws

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court next term. The justices recently granted certiorari in two cases challenging state laws that restrict social media companies’ ability to moderate content on their platforms. The key issue before the Court is whether the Texas and Florida laws violate the First Amendment. The court held that S.B.

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University of Florida Bars Professors From Testifying Against New State Voting Rules

JonathanTurley

Three University of Florida political science professors have told a federal court that the university barred them from assisting plaintiffs in a challenge to the state’s new voting laws. As state employees, they were told that litigating against a state law would be “adverse to U.F.’s I disagree.

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More on Flo & Eddie: Federal Court Certifies to California State Court Question of Whether There is a Public Performance Right in Pre-1972 Sound Recordings

Broadcast Law Blog

The Florida case has been referred to that state’s highest court for an advisory ruling on the state of the state’s law on the issue, and earlier this week, the same thing happened in California. A decision on this issue in any state is binding only in that state.

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Halakha Challenge: Three Kentucky Women Argue Abortion Law “Imposed Sectarian Theology on Jews.”

JonathanTurley

” Two similar lawsuits are pending in Florida and Indiana on the grounds that it violates the religious freedom for Jewish people. The law is not a model of legislative drafting. However, a court could easily adopt a logical interpretation that the destruction of a fertilized egg outside of the womb is not an abortion.

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Crunching the Numbers: Does Justice Jackson’s Dissent on Affirmative Action Add Up?

JonathanTurley

The last week’s historic decisions from the Supreme Court led to an array of factual objections from critics. It examines mortality rates in Florida newborns between 1992 and 2015 and shows a 0.13% to 0.2% Before joining the court, Justice Louis Brandeis filed such a brief in his brilliant challenge to work place conditions.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

SCOTUSBlog

Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. David Beckwith (Oct.

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UCF Forced to Reinstate Professor Fired After Writing About “Black Privilege”

JonathanTurley

We previously discussed about the effort to fire University of Central Florida Professor Charles Negy after he tweeted about “black privilege.” UCF President Alexander Cartwright abandoned any pretense of academic freedom or principle in falling to protect a colleague from an anti-free speech campaign.