Welcome to First Amendment Newsflash, the First Amendment Law Review’s bi-weekly roundup of the latest in free expression and religious freedom news and commentary. Check here every other Sunday for a new edition! Need First Amendment news in the meantime? Follow FALR on Twitter and Facebook for regular updates. Federal Court News Parties in a federal lawsuit that …
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Las Vegas Blogs By Lindsay Frazier; Staff Member (Vol. 16) Picture this: You walk into your favorite brunch spot on a Sunday morning at 11:45 a.m. with a group of friends. You decide to partake in a traditional brunch activity and order a mimosa to go with your food. The waitress …
Welcome to First Amendment Newsflash, the First Amendment Law Review’s bi-weekly roundup of the latest in free expression and religious freedom news and commentary. Check here every other Sunday for a new edition! Need First Amendment news in the meantime? Follow FALR on Twitter and Facebook for regular updates. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Josh Hallett Federal Court News …
Welcome to First Amendment Newsflash, the First Amendment Law Review’s bi-weekly roundup of the latest in free expression and religious freedom news and commentary. Check here every other Sunday for a new edition! Need First Amendment news in the meantime? Follow FALR on Twitter and Facebook for regular updates. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Jamie Federal Court News The …
Photo Credit: Courtesy of McKenzie Wark By Kaleigh Darty; Staff Member (Vol. 16) Imagine that an unarmed young man in your hometown was shot and killed by police in the course of an arrest. Word spreads throughout the town, and soon after the incident, a video surfaces online. In a matter of hours, the …
By Jasmine Plott; Staff Member (Vol. 16) “I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you’re ready, you just need to do it! You can’t keep living this way. You just need to do it like you did last time and not think about it and just do it babe. You …
Welcome to First Amendment Newsflash, the First Amendment Law Review’s bi-weekly roundup of the latest in free expression and religious freedom news and commentary. Check here every other Sunday for a new edition! Need First Amendment news in the meantime? Follow FALR on Twitter and Facebook for regular updates. Federal Court News The Supreme Court will decide whether …
By Kayla Rowsey; Staff Member (Vol. 16) Ah, yes—playgrounds. Definitely the forum we all had in mind for presenting such a divisive Establishment Clause issue to the Supreme Court. Let’s figure out how we got here. Missouri has a clause in its state constitution, commonly known as a Blaine Amendment, which forbids the allocation of …
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Jimmy Emerson, DVM By Adam Griffin; Staff Member (Vol. 16) North Carolina’s First Amendment Before the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, and before the Supreme Court doctrine of incorporation was created to impose the protections of the First Amendment against the State Governments, most State Constitutions had sister provisions that protected …
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Stephen Melkisethian By Sarah Rozek; Staff Member (Vol. 16) Charlottesville, a city in West Central Virginia, has a population of more than 200,000. It was not, however, the city’s size, its great selection of wineries, or its world-class university which made it into the headlines this year. Rather, it was the …
