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New #FirstAmendment case from the Ninth Circuit
May @X sue a nonprofit hate-speech monitor for scraping public posts and publishing reports that drove away advertisers? audioarguendo.com/listen.php…
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Another thought inspired by Knife Rights: While Georgia in 1837 did generally ban the open and concealed carry of pistols, it banned only the concealed carry of Bowie Knives. From Section 4 of the law: "no person or persons, shall be found guilty of violating the before recited act, who shall openly wear, externally, Bowie Knives ... and which shall be exposed plainly to view."
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Score another win for @GovRonDeSantis in the long-running saga of his controversial fight with Disney: The federal district judge overseeing the company's remaining First Amendment lawsuit has thrown the case out. | @baseballcrank
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Brilliant analysis by my former student Joel Alicea in the wake of the Supreme Court's oral argument in the Dobbs case.
"Dobbs and the Fate of the Conservative Legal Movement" disq.us/t/43e7r9q
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JLPP: Per Curiam has just published two essays about Roe, Casey, and the Court's upcoming decision in Dobbs. First up is "Roe and Casey Were Grievously Wrong and should be Overruled" by Charles J. Cooper, @RickGarnett, and more. LINK: harvard-jlpp.com/roe-and-cas… 1/
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JUST IN: One new cert grant this morning: Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP. More on the case here: scotusblog.com/case-files/ca…
#SCOTUS adds one new case to its merits docket this morning: Berger v. NC Conference of NAACP, in which the justices will weigh in on an effort by Republican legislators in the state to intervene to defend the state’s voter-ID law. Here's the order: supremecourt.gov/orders/cour…
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The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a lower appellate panel and held that Cook County's firearm and ammunition taxes are unconstitutional. law360.com/articles/1433310
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My Sunday essay: A Guide to Finding Faith:
nytimes.com/2021/08/14/opini…
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One of the few nice parts of 2020 has been getting to know the work of @jennfrey farefwd.com/index.php/2020/0…
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Breaking: CA5 en banc finds that structure of FHFA violates separation of powers. Next stop, #scotus
ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pu… – at Austin, TX














