First Amendment Law Prof Blog tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1431985 2009-11-08T15:16:15-05:00 A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network TypePad FirstAmendmentLawProfBloghttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes First Amendment Scholarship Update tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a66363b1970b 2009-11-08T15:16:15-05:00 2009-11-08T15:16:15-05:00 Here is this week’s collection of recently available scholarship addressing topics with a First Amendment dimension: 1) Robert A. Kahn (University of St. Thomas School of Law –Minnesota), Flemming Rose, the Danish Cartoon Controversy, and the New European Freedom of... firstamendmentblogger Creationism Gaining Favor Among Followers of Islam tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01287562fe10970c 2009-11-08T07:41:26-05:00 2009-11-08T07:41:26-05:00 Recent articles in the New York Times and Washington Post describe the rising appeal of creationism among followers of Islam around the world. Unlike many Christian creationists in the U.S., Muslims tend to reject the “young Earth” variant which emphasizes... firstamendmentblogger Pittsburgh Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone Ordinance Invalidated by Third Circuit tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a65fd0c7970b 2009-11-07T08:45:03-05:00 2009-11-07T08:45:04-05:00 As discussed in the First Amendment Center website, this week the Third Circuit's ruling in Brown v. City of Pittsburgh struck down a Pittsburgh ordinance which, as summarized by the Court, had imposed the following restrictions: The Ordinance established two... firstamendmentblogger Coverage of "Religious or Spiritual Healthcare" Proposed for Exchange Component of Health Care Reform tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a65fc5c5970b 2009-11-07T08:13:07-05:00 2009-11-07T08:13:07-05:00 As reported in the LA Times, Sen. Orrin Hatch has proposed that religious and spiritual health care could not be excluded from the coverage parameters of insurance available through the exchange to be set up for consumers under one version... firstamendmentblogger First Amendment Scholarship Update tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6a04709970c 2009-11-02T11:37:02-05:00 2009-11-02T11:34:59-05:00 Here is this week’s collection of scholarship addressing First Amendment topics: 1) Margaret Tarkington (Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School), A Free Speech Right to Impugn Judicial Integrity in Court Proceedings, forthcoming in Boston College Law Review.... firstamendmentblogger Compromise Reached on Terms of Proposed Federal Media Shield Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a644479e970b 2009-10-31T11:39:23-04:00 2009-10-31T11:39:23-04:00 The Washington Post reports today that the Obama administration and Congress have reached a compromise that may allow proposed federal media shield legislation to become law. The President had been concerned about how the legislation could affect national security cases... firstamendmentblogger The French Effort to Differentiate Religions from Cults tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a699c8b3970c 2009-10-31T11:38:55-04:00 2009-10-31T11:38:55-04:00 Slate’s Explainer offers a brief examination of the claimed legal authority recently used by the French government to pursue claims of wrongdoing against the Church of Scientology. French authorities’ concern about groups considered “cult-like movements” prompted the National Assembly to... firstamendmentblogger French Branch of Church of Scientology Found Guilty of Committing Fraud and Commerical Harassment tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a625fc73970b 2009-10-27T17:38:22-04:00 2009-10-27T17:38:22-04:00 As reported by the LA Times, the New York Times and CNN, a French court has found the Church of Scientology guilty of "organized fraud" and imposed fines of 600,000 euros on the Church's French branch. Several leaders of the... firstamendmentblogger First Amendment Scholarship Update tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6751b45970c 2009-10-25T12:32:35-04:00 2009-10-25T12:32:35-04:00 Here is this week’s collection of newly available scholarship on First Amendment topics: 1) Timothy Zick (William & Mary Law School ),Property As/And Constitutional Settlement, 104 Nw. U. L. Rev. --- (2010). The abstract states: This Article addresses the extent... firstamendmentblogger Head of Military Religious Freedom Foundation Files Complaint Alleging Former Military Chaplain Uses Prayer to Incite Violence tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a5f3046c970b 2009-10-18T18:50:43-04:00 2009-10-18T18:50:43-04:00 The Texas Lawyer (via Law.com) reports that Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, has filed a petition in Texas state court seeking to enjoin Gordon Klingenschmitt from allegedly urging his followers to injure Weinstein and his family.... firstamendmentblogger First Amendment Scholarship Update tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6497c2a970c 2009-10-18T14:05:03-04:00 2009-10-18T14:05:03-04:00 Here is this week’s collection of newly available scholarship addressing First Amendment topics: 1) Frederick Schauer (University of Virginia School of Law), Facts and the First Amendment - The 2009 Melville Nimmer Memorial Lecture, forthcoming in 57 UCLA L. Rev.... firstamendmentblogger Alaska Legislators Express Support for Extending State Child Porn Law to Cover Anime tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a5e1a5ab970b 2009-10-13T14:57:10-04:00 2009-10-13T14:57:10-04:00 The Anchorage Daily News reports the legislators in Alaska have expressed receptivity to a state prosecutor’s call to extend the state’s child pornography law to anime or other computer generated cartoons containing sexually explicit depictions of children. Although the U.S.... firstamendmentblogger Scalia Out of Touch on the Meaning of the Cross tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a5d08c42970b 2009-10-12T00:30:35-04:00 2009-10-12T00:31:10-04:00 I'm not sure what's worse: telling Muslims, Jews and other non-Christians they should like it when someone "honors" their dead with a Christian cross, or telling Christians that the cross doesn't really represents Christ's execution and gift of eternal salvation.... firstamendmentblogger First Amendment Scholarship Update tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a62fb593970c 2009-10-11T10:49:25-04:00 2009-10-11T10:49:25-04:00 Here is this week's collection of new scholarship on First Amendment topics: 1)Prakash Shah (Queen Mary University of London, School of Law ), Coping with Super-Diversity in Law: Thoughts on the British Scene, in RELIGION AND LAW IN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES(... firstamendmentblogger Pew Forum Report Provides Global Muslim Population Data tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6298792970c 2009-10-09T12:09:57-04:00 2009-10-09T12:09:57-04:00 The Pew Forum has issued a new report, Mapping the Global Muslim Population, which, as described in the Executive Summary, presents a “comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries” and "finds that there are 1.57 billion Muslims of all... firstamendmentblogger Challenge to N.H. Pledge Statute Rejected tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a62974ef970c 2009-10-09T11:56:26-04:00 2009-10-09T11:56:26-04:00 In Freedom from Religion Foundation v. Hanover Sch. Dist., a federal district court has rejected a challenge to New Hamphire’s statute requiring that the Pledge of Allegiance be said in the state’s schools but providing an individual opt-out from participation.... firstamendmentblogger Application of Sex Offender Restrictions to Bar Church Attendance Challenged tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a5cdf6ef970b 2009-10-08T11:59:43-04:00 2009-10-08T11:59:43-04:00 As reported by the AP, a North Carolina man, previously convicted of taking indecent liberties with a teenage girl and attempted second-degree rape, was arrested in March after he attended services at a church which had a child care center... firstamendmentblogger Maryland University System to Issue Policy on Campus Showings of Pornographic Films tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6248ed1970c 2009-10-08T11:46:18-04:00 2009-10-08T11:46:18-04:00 The Washington Post reports that the University of Maryland has announced plans to adopt rules regarding the circumstances under which pornographic films can be shown on state campuses. The action comes in response to state legislators' demand for action after... firstamendmentblogger Justices Appear Unlikely to Render Broad First Amendment Pronouncement in Salazar v. Buono tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a5cddf1c970b 2009-10-08T11:34:45-04:00 2009-10-08T11:34:45-04:00 Yesterday’s oral argument in Salazar v. Buono seemed to generate a consensus among commentators that the Justices seemed inclined to avoid issuing a broad First Amendment pronouncement on the constitutionality of the use of religious symbols in public monuments and... firstamendmentblogger Justices Hostile to Animal Anti-Cruelty Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a61e968a970c 2009-10-06T20:50:29-04:00 2009-10-06T20:52:09-04:00 If there was a loser in Court today when the Justices heard arguments in US v. Stevens, it was the government. Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal was hammered with questions from the moment he approached the bench, and at one... firstamendmentblogger