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Showing posts with label First Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label First Amendment. Show all posts
Thursday, September 18, 2025

From national TV to local school, suspension of dissenters evidences worrisome speech suppression

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Google Gemini CC0 Free speech is in danger in the United States, and two recent matters, one national and one local to me, are representativ...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Greenberg: 'Why American Libel Law Is a Disaster'

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My friend and colleague Dan Greenberg , a senior research fellow at the Cato Institute , has penned an editorial in which he explains "...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

'Take It Down' Act purports to redress revenge porn, but invites censorship by only incentivizing take-down

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Derived from Google Gemini, RJ Peltz-Steele CC0 President Trump signed into law bipartisan federal revenge porn legislation Monday—alas, not...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Court's pass on Wynn bid to revisit 'actual malice' makes sense, but standard still fuels misinformation

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Wynn operates the Encore Casino in Everett, Mass., since a dust-up with authorities over ownership. Holiday Point via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The...
Friday, November 1, 2024

New book spotlights freedom of press in film

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My friend and colleague Helen J. Knowles-Gardner , formerly a political science professor and now research director at the Institute for Fr...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

High court construes tenure contract to constrain faculty salary cuts at Tufts medical school

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TUSM Arnold Wing, 2012, Boston John Phelan via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0 Academic freedom won a rare court victory last week when the Mas...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Book supports legal privilege for undercover reporting

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Truth and Transparency , a recent book by Professors Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau , is a comprehensive and gratifying tour of the histor...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Smart but unconstitutional? Trump appointee inverts Scalia maxim in striking corporate transparency law

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"Corporate Transparency," Seattle by Daniel Foster via Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0 A federal district court in Alabama ruled the Corpo...
Saturday, March 2, 2024

Observers comment on Assange extradition hearings

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My thanks to Assange Defense Boston for organizing the Massachusetts State House rally on February 20 (above). Assange Defense Boston poste...
Friday, March 1, 2024

State high court simplifies anti-SLAPP, draws picture

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Notwithstanding the merits of anti- SLAPP statutes—I've opined plenty , including a catalog of problems —the Supreme Judicial Court of ...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Student media combat criminalization of speech

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The criminalization of journalism is the worry at the heart of the Julian Assange case, as a UK court mulls the possibility of his extraditi...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

To combat corruption, India Supreme Court strikes down dark money system, cites U.S. precedents

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Late last week, the Supreme Court of India struck a blow for transparency and accountability when it ruled unconstitutional a system of ano...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Assange Defense Boston rallies at State House

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The Boston Committee of Assange Defense rallied today at the Massachusetts State House. At the rally today, I spoke about my experience wi...