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22 Apr 2024, 5:00 am by Bernard Bell
Many state and local officials host social media sites and use them to converse with followers on matters related to their governmental responsibilities, among other things.[1]  Not surprisingly, many choose to block from their sites certain members of the public they find disagreeable.[2] Being disagreeable, or at least in disagreement with such actions, blocked followers sometimes sue alleging that their exclusion violates the First Amendment.[3]  One of the most notable examples was a… [read post]
5 Apr 2024, 6:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal From Pizzagate to the 2020 Election: Forcing liars to pay or apologize Las Vegas Sun – Elizabeth Williamson (New York Times) | Published: 4/2/2024 Michael Gottlieb, a partner at the firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher and a former associate counsel in the Obama White House, is at the forefront of a small but growing cadre of lawyers deploying defamation, one of the oldest areas of the law, as a weapon against a tide of political disinformation. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Cast as Criminals, America’s Librarians Rally to Their Own Defense Yahoo News – Elizabeth Williamson (New York Times) | Published: 2/3/2024 As America’s libraries have become noisy and sometimes dangerous new battlegrounds in the nation’s culture wars, librarians and their allies have moved from the stacks to the front lines. [read post]
  Counsel for Texas, which includes Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, responded to the Biden request with, “The loss of any human life in the Rio Grande is tragic—and preventable. [read post]
6 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Supreme Court to Decide Landmark Texas, Florida Social Media Cases and More MSN – Ann Marimow and Cat Zakrzewski (Washington Post) | Published: 9/29/2023 The Supreme Court said it would wade into the future of free speech online and decide whether laws passed in Texas and Florida can restrict social media companies from removing certain political posts or accounts. [read post]
29 Sep 2023, 6:48 am by Amy Howe
Paxton came as part of a list of orders from the justices’ Sept. 26 conference, the first conference since late June in which the justices had considered new cases to add to their docket for the 2023-24 term. [read post]
4 Sep 2023, 2:46 pm by bndmorris
Radavoi, Elizabeth Crawford Spencer, et. al., Law-Guided CSR: Ten Commandments for the 21st Century, 9 Loy. [read post]
26 May 2023, 3:18 am by Seán Binder
Elizabeth Findell reports for the Wall Street Journal. [read post]
25 May 2023, 2:43 am by Seán Binder
Elizabeth Findell reports for the Wall Street Journal. [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 4:28 am by Emma Snell
Last week Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar filed a briefing to the court saying that the end of the public health emergency would make the case moot. [read post]
20 May 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
” How Facebook Funded a Clandestine War Against Regulation MSN – Cat Zakrzewski and Elizabeth Dwoskin (Washington Post) | Published: 5/17/2022 Backed by millions of dollars from Facebook-parent company Meta, the political advocacy group American Edge has launched a campaign to combat antitrust legislation in Washington, placing op-eds in regional newspapers throughout the country, commissioning studies, and collaborating with an array of partners, including minority… [read post]
1 Nov 2021, 4:30 pm by Mark Walsh
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, Deputy Solicitor General Brian Mitchell (who served as acting SG while Prelogar’s nomination was pending), and another colleague. [read post]
1 Nov 2021, 1:40 pm by Amy Howe
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer suggested that the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton (who sat at counsel table in the courtroom on Monday with Stone), might be an appropriate defendant. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Biden’s Vow to Limit Ethics Conflicts Finds a Test Case: The Ricchetti brothers MSN – Michael Scherer and Sean Sullivan (Washington Post) | Published: 6/14/2021 President Biden vowed to ban his own family from involvement in government, disclose records of White House visitors, and support new legislation that would expand the definition of lobbying and mandate more detailed disclosure of contacts with White House officials. [read post]
1 Feb 2021, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Symposium on Mary Ziegler, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. [read post]