First Amendment Archives

FL: U.S. appeals court: Lifetime computer ban for sex offender doesn’t violate First Amendment

·November 30, 2020
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[floridaphoenix.com - 11/30/20] A federal appeals court has upheld a lifetime ban on computer use for a South Florida sex offender who used text messaging to send a naked picture…

General News

Supreme Court: Court adds five new cases to docket

·October 28, 2016
·58 Comments

... Among the court’s other grants today, Packingham v. North Carolina is the case of Lester Packingham, a North Carolina man who became a registered sex offender after he was…

National

NC: On ‘ample alternative channels of communication,’ the First Amendment and social networking

·May 17, 2016
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A couple of weeks ago, I joined 16 law professors in an amicus brief (authored by Eugene Volokh and several of his students) urging the Supreme Court to grant certiorari…

General News National

NC: First Amendment woes in North Carolina

·November 11, 2015
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As most VC readers know, First Amendment law is dominated by a single question, the 800-pound constitutional gorilla that’s always in the room: What “level of scrutiny” will the court…

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