Showing posts with label first amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label first amendment. Show all posts
Monday, June 27, 2011

"Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than playing Mortal Kombat."

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Says Justice Scalia in today's 7-2 opinion in California v. Entertainment Merchants Association , striking down a California law that re...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Justice Alito doesn't like the First Amendment

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He was the lone dissenter in the crush video case . And now he is the lone dissenter in the funeral protester case : The Supreme Court ruled...
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Wednesday, January 05, 2011

"Nudity itself is not per se indecent."

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That was the Second Circuit , discussing Connie McDowell's scene in an NYPD epidosde . From the AP : The Federal Communications Commiss...
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010

"Some of the Grimm’s fairy tales are quite grim." -- Justice Scalia during oral argument yesterday

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So were some of those election results... Here's the NY Times article on the violent video game argument in the Supreme Court: The law w...
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Friday, March 12, 2010

The Broward Bar Association has nothing better to do...

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... than ask whether the JAABlog is acting professionally. From this morning's DBR : A Broward County Bar Association committee will m...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Too bad they didn't have Facebook when I was in highschool

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Okay, so SFL got us hooked on this Scribd thing , so here goes. Judge Garber issued this very interesting order in a case involving a stu...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

The Conway briefs are in

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Our previous coverage of Sean Conway's bar issue and proposed settlement is here (He agreed to settle his bar case for calling Judge A...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Blogging about your own criminal trial...

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... as a defendant . UPDATED BELOW Yup, you can read about photographer Carlos Miller's trial in state court from Miller's perspecti...
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Friday, January 11, 2008

Gagged?

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Unfortunately, I will not be blogging about the Liberty City 7 case any more until the following issue is cleared up: As regular readers kno...
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Thursday, January 03, 2008

Should an acquitted defendant, his wife and his lawyer be gagged

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That's the issue raised in this morning's article by Vanessa Blum : A federal judge who declared a mistrial last month for six South...
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