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Showing posts with label First Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label First Amendment. Show all posts
Monday, February 23, 2026

Knowles-Gardner tells story of NAACP v. Alabama, landmark civil rights case on freedom of association

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Dr. Helen Knowles-Gardner spoke at UMass Law School Wednesday on "When Alabama Tried to Destroy the NAACP (and Freedom of Association)....
Friday, January 23, 2026

Did Donald Trump go to prep school with Citizen Kane?

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I just re-watched the masterpiece  Citizen Kane  (1941) , and a line I'd never noticed before dropped my jaw. I'm teaching a seminar...
Monday, November 3, 2025

7 years since shocking hate crime, civil rights suit over Nantucket public meeting surfaces racial tension

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Nantucket African Meeting House, 1880 Nantucket Historical Association A shocking hate crime of vandalism on storied Nantucket Island in 201...
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...