Marion B. Brechner
First Amendment Project
The Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to current and contemporary issues affecting the First Amendment freedoms of speech, press, thought, assembly and petition.
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Clay Calvert Comments on Backlash from Publishing Controversial Newspaper Op-Ed
July 12, 2022

Ted Bridis and Clay Calvert Comment on How the Largest Utility Company in the U.S. Conducted Surveillance on a Jacksonville Journalist
June 27, 2022


Jasmine McNealy Appointed Technology Advisor for Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning
June 7, 2022
Covering some #FirstAmendment fundamentals in story by @MichaelWashburn re: social media platforms @NetChoice #AFloridaLaw . . . @UFJSchool @UFJouDept @UFLaw https://www.theepochtimes.com/legal-battle-over-floridas-big-tech-censorship-law-may-impact-future-of-free-speech-on-social-media_4644359.html
Listening yesterday @PractLawInst to this man talk about every key #SCOTUS case from last term was an honor and as “momentous” as he characterized the last term. @BerkeleyLaw
Among the famous explorers today on 51st and 8th Avenue #RoomWithAView
And me, baby, and me ✍🏼 @HachetteUS
Opinion | A court’s ruling against Sandmann doesn’t vindicate media outlets

Opinion | A court‘s ruling against Sandmann doesn‘t vindicate media outlets
The ruling sided with media outlets on the rationale that they were publishing protected opinion.
www.washingtonpost.com
My syllabi grow longer each year. Some additions required, some suggested (not the point here). If paid per word, this would be cool. But students aren't paid to read syllabi per word; I suspect some take it for window dressing, scan, move on. #ClickThruK #TalkAmongstYourselves🤔
Student expelled for offensive Snapchat post can sue school district, 10th Circuit says via @ABAJournal

Student expelled for offensive Snapchat post can sue school district, 10th Circuit says
www.abajournal.com
A few of my thoughts in @Mediaite column by @rumpfshaker re: running and removal of guest column in @HeraldTribune . . . @UFJSchool @UFJouDept https://www.mediaite.com/online/sarasota-herald-tribune-deletes-op-ed-by-proud-boy-wife-after-backlash-without-addressing-failure-to-disclose-conflict/
Helping out with @AP fact-checking by @sophia_tulp re: #Florida #HB233 and surveying faculty, staff & students at public universities after @StephenKing tweet . . . unraveling the mystery . . . @UFJSchool . . . https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/NOT-REAL-NEWS-A-look-at-what-didn-t-happen-this-17292468.php
Proofreading aloud my own copy in William F. Buckley’s voice and intonation makes it so much more, shall we say, amusing ✍🏼🤓🧐
Love it @DaStanfordTree
I'm betting in #MMC4200 this Fall Semester we just might be focusing a tad on Option 3 . . . as well as how long Lawrence holds up . . .@UFJouDept #SCOTUS @derigansilver
Hot off the press and ready for Fall Semester 2022 . . . @UFJSchool . . . My thanks to @derigansilver & @kozlowskid & my #MMC4200 students @UFJouDept
Thank you to the Supreme Court of Oregon this month for giving a shoutout (and quote out) to an article I co-authored with two excellent joint JD/MAMC graduates from @UFLaw & @UFJSchool #EmmaMorehart & #SarahPapadelias @emorehart #Libel
Tag teaming with @tbridis & @ProfClayCalvert @UFJSchool @UFJouDept Consultants for FPL covertly monitored journalist after critical coverage
Consultants for FPL covertly monitored journalist after critical coverage
Nate Monroe was surveilled after he wrote critically about Florida Power & Light's efforts to purchase Jacksonville's public utility, JEA.
www.sun-sentinel.com
Why law professors should co-author academic articles with law students via @ABAJournal

Why law professors should co-author academic articles with law students
I started writing law review articles in mid-career, after many years of publishing academic articles in STEM journa...
www.abajournal.com
Thanks for the shout out! @UFJSchool @UFJouDept
Prior restraint, a term I learned in @ProfClayCalvert's class at @UFJSchool, is definitely the first thing that came to mind after reading this @HeraldTribune headline. https://twitter.com/SkylerSwisher/status/1539310917598445570
Not a legal analysis, but a story about censorship and all the more pernicious. Story by @NathnGreenfield To understand Ukrainian solidarity, look to the literature
To understand Ukrainian solidarity, look to the literature
Teaching Russian and Ukrainian literatures today involves a deconstruction of the Great Russian Narrative – a coloni...
www.universityworldnews.com