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Remembering First Amendment Champion Anthony Lewis

Evan Mascagni — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:45:37 +0000

Putlizer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Lewis passed away last week at the age of 85. Lewis famously published Make No Law in 1991 about the Supreme Court case New York Times v. Sullivan and how it revolutionized American libel law. While … Read the rest

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Snyder v. Phelps and the Public/Private Distinction in First Amendment Law

Ryan Metheny — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:50:00 +0000

The relationship between the First Amendment’s protections for free speech and the common law’s tort remedies for victims of defamatory or otherwise damaging statements has always been a complex one. As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan pointed out before … Read the rest

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What Counts as Speech, Anyway?

Ryan Metheny — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:46:01 +0000

Practicing law and litigating cases on a day-to-day basis, you often lose sight of big-picture, foundational legal questions. In First Amendment law, however, it is important never to stray too far from these bigger questions, lest they come back to … Read the rest

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