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9 Nov 2011, 4:34 pm by Steve Shiffrin
Renowned first amendment attorney Floyd Abrams, who argued the case for one of the major tobacco companies, hailed the decision on the free speech ground that government should not be able to compel companies to carry advocacy against their lawful products. [read post]
6 Jun 2020, 2:50 pm by JB
The Information Society Project and the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression issued the following statement today:June 6, 2020The Information Society Project and the Floyd Abrams Institute for Freedom of ExpressionCondemn Police Violations of Protesters’ and Journalists’ First Amendment Rights;Call for Constitutional Protections for Protesters and the Press[1]The recent violence perpetrated against protesters seeking racial justice and against reporters… [read post]
2 May 2019, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
And then there is Floyd Abrams, the most noted First Amendment lawyer of our time. [read post]
22 Mar 2021, 4:31 pm by Allan Blutstein
To that end, the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic (MFIA) and the Floyd Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression at Yale Law School are hosting their annual “FOIA Bootcamp” on April 7, 2021. [read post]
16 Mar 2014, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
The Los Angeles Review of Books reviews Floyd Abrams's Friends of the Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment (Yale University Press).The New Republic reviews Doris Kearns Goodwin's The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Simon & Schuster).New Books in History has an interview with Benjamin Elman, author of Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China (Harvard… [read post]
11 May 2016, 6:01 am
Said Floyd Abrams, the big First Amendment lawyer, after John Thune, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, called on Facebook to respond to claims that it discriminates against conservatives as it determines which news articles to feature on the "trending" list that appears on users' Facebook pages.Thune said:  "If there’s any level of subjectivity associated with it, or if, as reports have suggested that there might have been, an attempt to… [read post]
15 Aug 2009, 7:10 pm
  Their dean is undoubtedly Floyd Abrams, who shreds an execrable opinion piece from the New York Times on the upcoming Supreme Court case on whether the makers of the film Hillary: The Movie should be hamstrung by campaign finance laws. [read post]
23 Feb 2014, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
Collins's Nuanced Absolutism: Floyd Abrams and the First Amendment (Carolina Academic Press). [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 11:44 am by Ronald Collins
His next book, Nuanced Absolutism: Floyd Abrams and the First Amendment, comes out in January. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 11:44 am by Ronald Collins
His next book, Nuanced Absolutism: Floyd Abrams and the First Amendment, comes out in January. [read post]
17 Mar 2014, 8:50 pm by Kevin O'Keefe
From leading constitutional law attorney, Floyd Abrams, kicking off the event, to the many presenters, to the Yale Club being the site of the conference, to the meals served, to the sponsors (including wireLawyer who did video interviews of some of the presenters), to the reception afterwards hosted by wireLawyer, to the attendees themselves. [read post]
6 Dec 2023, 4:37 am
  In a recent filing supporting this effort, figures as prominent as media lawyer Floyd Abrams and Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky have told the Colorado Supreme Court that preventing voters from being able to cast their votes for Trump is just a way of 'fostering democracy.'... [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 3:37 pm
Said the venerable First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. [read post]
21 Jun 2017, 4:56 pm by David Lat
[Empirical SCOTUS] * Floyd Abrams, celebrated First Amendment lawyer and author (affiliate link), laments the sad state of freedom of speech on college campuses today. [read post]
19 May 2017, 3:15 pm by David Lat
[Althouse] * A high-profile visitor over at the Volokh Conspiracy: renowned First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams will be blogging about his new book, The Soul of the First Amendment (affiliate link). [read post]
13 Mar 2012, 10:45 am by Rick Hasen
.” On the disclosure point, I have agreed with Dan Abrams that any media saying Citizens United has led to secret money is wrong. [read post]
22 May 2017, 5:03 am by Floyd Abrams
[Excerpted, by permission of Yale University Press, from “The Soul of the First Amendment” by Floyd Abrams, © 2017.] [read post]
18 Mar 2017, 8:20 pm by Jon Katz
Snoop Dogg’s video is First Amendment protected — as First Amendment expert Floyd Abrams agrees — which does not automatically mean that it is in good taste. [read post]