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Clay Calvert Comments on First Amendment Protections for Offensive Language
September 23, 2021
Clay Calvert Comments on First Amendment Protections for Satire and Parody
September 14, 2021
Clay Calvert’s Book “Voyeur Nation” is Quoted in Viral Tik Tok Cheater Video Story
September 9, 2021
THE PERILOUS PUBLIC SQUARE: STRUCTURAL THREATS TO FREE EXPRESSION TODAY
(from @ColumbiaUP)
Friday read: @ProfClayCalvert's (@UFLaw) review of editor David Pozen's (@ColumbiaLaw) recent volume.
The Perilous Public Square: Structural Threats To Free Expression Today - Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews
Editor: David E. Pozen Publisher: New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2020. 408p. Reviewer: Clay Calvert | September 2021
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My review of @OxUniPress #Liars by #Sunstein in @clcjbooks https://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/liars-falsehoods-and-free-speech-in-an-age-of-deception/
Another great win for court access, courtesy of @CourthouseNews. 🎉
New Mexico found to violate First Amendment right of access
https://www.courthousenews.com/new-mexico-found-to-violate-first-amendment-right-of-access/
One past participant calls it "one of the very best things" she did in law school. And now she's a First Amendment lawyer! 👀
Registration for the 2022 First Amendment and Media Law Diversity Moot Court Competition ends Friday.
Application here: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/communications_law/initiatives_awards/mootcourt/
Bet they figured that out in a Jif . . .
Reporter who broke Theranos story could be barred from trial
Reporter who broke Theranos story could be barred from trial
The reporter who broke the story on Theranos may be banned from covering the trial against the company's former CEO Elizabeth Holmes.
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That’s great writing. One sentence. We get the man and the issues that might lead to more. @TomWrightAsia @WSJ
So why proportionately beats rigid categorical rules: Wild horses couldn’t drag me away, at least through the fog of Moss Beach . . . distillery. First set to Breyer #SCOTUS
My weekend is complete.
𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗠.
Chemerinsky: Expect a truly extraordinary year at the Supreme Court via @ABAJournal
Chemerinsky: Expect a truly extraordinary year at the Supreme Court
Every Supreme Court term has important decisions that change the law and affect people‘s lives, but some years...
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Law students with an interest in media law: Apply by Oct. 1 for this amazing networking and career-building opportunity through the ABA's Forum on Communications Law. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/communications_law/initiatives_awards/mootcourt/
From @1stForAll . . . Definitely not good news in here for journalists and the press . . . #FirstAmendment . . . Another good reason for @UFTrust initiative
"At the heart of the First Amendment is the ability to freely criticize both government officials and government policies," @UFJSchool's @ProfClayCalvert told @USATODAY's @SadeghiMckenzie. #UFintheNews
Fact check: Shouting profanity about the president is protected by the First Amendment, legal experts say
Contrary to online claims, legal experts say screaming profanity about the president is legal and protected by the First Amendment.
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Fact check: Shouting profanity about the president is protected by the First Amendment, legal experts say via @usatoday
Fact check: Shouting profanity about the president is protected by the First Amendment, legal experts say
Contrary to online claims, legal experts say screaming profanity about the president is legal and protected by the First Amendment.
www.usatoday.com
Yes, one can swear at #POTUS as @Reuters fact-checking column suggests, as long as it's not part of a true threat . . . https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-biden-cursing-idUSL1N2QN289 . . . @UFJSchool @UFLaw . . Paul Robert Cohen's jacket making a cameo
I always thought standup and academia were alike. Thank you, Norm, for confirming . . .
“The Supreme Court made it clear in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell in 1988 that satire and parody are protected by the First Amendment.” -#UFLaw/@UFJSchool @ProfClayCalvert in @washingtonpost
Perspective | An OnlyFans baseball parody has an Olney team crying foul â and hiring counsel
A satirical website called the Takoma Torch says it has the First Amendment on its side.
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Somewhere (either up there or down there) I think @ImLarryFlynt is likely laughing at this satirical riff off of #OnlyFans by @TakomaTorch . . . Story now in @washingtonpost column by @JohnKelly . . . @UFJSchool and @UFLaw . . . https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/onlyfans-olneyfans-baseball/2021/09/13/3e981d22-14ba-11ec-9589-31ac3173c2e5_story.html . . .
A vision becomes reality — the University of Florida takes its place among the nation’s top public universities as a top-five institution in the @usnews 2022 #BestColleges rankings. 🤩5️⃣ #UFRising
