[US] High Court weighs online speech protections
By Tony Mauro, From Supreme Court Brief In their latest foray into new media, several U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared ready to consider angry Facebook rants as a form of expression that...
View ArticleBoies Schiller confronts Media on Sony data breach
By Nathalie Pierrepont, From The Am Law Daily Sony Pictures Entertainment has hired Boies, Schiller & Flexner to clamp down on media companies that have republished confidential—and at times...
View ArticleUniform rules issued on electronic devices in courtrooms [USA]
By Mary Pat Gallagher, From New Jersey Law Journal Lawyers and others who want to tap away at their smartphones and tablets while in court will be able to do so under newly issued guidelines from the...
View ArticleNorth Carolina abortion ultrasound rule violates first amendment, court says
By Mike Sacks, From The National Law Journal A federal appeals court Monday struck down a key provision of North Carolina’s abortion regulations as a violation of doctors’ First Amendment right to free...
View ArticleCircuit says Facebook posts were properly used as evidence
By Mark Hamblett, From New York Law Journal Introducing a rap video and images of tattoos from a defendant’s Facebook page as evidence in a drug-and-murder gang prosecution did not violate the rights...
View ArticleWhen justices talk about the Pope
By Marcia Coyle, from The National Law Journal A search of oral argument transcripts reveals “pope” references in 11 cases from the past 60 years. Talk show hosts, politicians, Catholics, wary...
View ArticleJudge: It’s not nice to leave nasty notes on speeding tickets, but it’s your...
By Mary Beth Quirk From Consumerist No one gets a speeding ticket and rushes out to pay it with glee, at least, no one who likes holding onto their money. But even if it’s pretty rude to scrawl an...
View ArticleOrrick defends decisions in clash over planned parenthood videos
By Ross Todd, From The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge is defending his handling of a clash between abortion-rights advocates and opponents over the hidden-camera videos that ignited a...
View ArticleSupreme Court Protesters Take First Amendment Challenge to Court
By Zoe Tillman, From Legal Times Lawyer Jeffrey Light argues high court “harangue” and “loud” language ban violates First Amendment. Can a whisper be disruptive? When does speech become loud? A federal...
View ArticleCourt overturns conviction of landlord who threatened to post sex tape on...
By Chris Morran From Consumerist If you go on Facebook and threaten to post a sex tape featuring a public official, is that a threat or is it free speech protected by the First Amendment? The highest...
View ArticleMadonna backs Sean Penn in defamation suit against Lee Daniels
By Celia Ampel, From Daily Business Review The Miami attorneys defending “Empire” creator Lee Daniels in a defamation suit filed by actor Sean Penn are not deterred by Madonna’s affidavit swearing the...
View ArticleAmerica: Where demagogues win?
By Rebecca Theodore From Caribbean News Now Aside from the blatant fact of observing the suppression of freedom of speech in a presidential election campaign – something that America forbids in many...
View ArticleUS suit: City ordered gallery to remove painting of naked butt
By Charles Toutant, From New Jersey Law Journal An art gallery that was cited for displaying a painting depicting a woman’s bare buttocks has filed a First Amendment suit against the City of Englewood....
View ArticleFacebook bomb threat comment raises Free Speech questions
By P.J. D’Annunzio, From The Legal Intelligencer The First Amendment case of a high school student suspended for making a Facebook post about a bomb threat entered murky constitutional waters Tuesday...
View ArticleDo [US] taxpayer dollars fund religious freedom – or discrimination?
By Katherine Gypson From Voice of America CAPITOL HILL— A prayer opens every day of business on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. A military chaplain buys religious vestments from a...
View ArticleWe’ve crossed the free speech Rubicon
comments feed BY LANCE ULANOFF From Mashable After decades of operating in the shadows of the web, online racists are now the focus of deserved intense anger and sudden action by the entities that once...
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Labeling loot boxes as ‘gambling’ isn’t just dangerous for EA. It’s dangerous...
comments feed BY ADAM ROSENBERG From Mashable It’s possible for “Loot boxes can be bad in video games” and “Loot boxes are not actually a form of gambling” to both be true. On Tuesday, Chris Lee, a...
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Rubio commends marchers; Calls for finding ‘Common Ground’
comments feed By Sandy Fitzgerald From Newsmax Sen. Marco Rubio has come under fire by protesters at Saturday’s “March For Our Lives” rally for accepting donations from the National Rifle Association,...
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US Justice Department’s threat to social media giants is wrong
comments feed By Jonathan Shieber From TechCrunch Never has it been so clear that the attorneys charged with enforcing the laws of the country have a complete disregard for the very laws they’re meant...
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John Berryhill explains why moving to an offshore registrar is not always a...
comments feed BY RAYMOND HACKNEY From The Domains One of the thoughts behind the reason why Gab.com moved to Uniregistry was that they wanted to get out from U.S. jurisdiction, a common thought among...
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