{"id":1886,"date":"2018-01-21T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2018-01-21T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T15:00:46","slug":"first-amendment-newsflash-1-8-1-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/first-amendment-newsflash-1-8-1-21\/","title":{"rendered":"First Amendment Newsflash 1\/8-1\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to First Amendment Newsflash, the First Amendment Law Review\u2019s 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\u00a0<\/i>Twitter<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/i>Facebook<\/i><\/a>\u00a0for regular updates.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Federal Court News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Parties in a federal lawsuit that accused a Louisiana police officer of violating a woman\u2019s First Amendment rights by grabbing her cellphone and deleting a photo she took of the officer reached a settlement<\/a> that includes officer training on the public\u2019s First Amendment right to photograph police performing their duties.<\/p>\n

The Ninth Circuit dismissed a sex worker advocacy group\u2019s lawsuit<\/a> claiming that prostitution should be a First Amendment-protected form of commercial speech.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department backs Archdiocese of Washington in its court appeal to have its Christmas fundraising ads<\/a> displayed on Washington, D.C. public transportation.<\/p>\n

A man, whose 1989 Supreme Court case granted First Amendment protection for flag burning, sued the City of Cleveland and others for their roles in his arrest after he tried to burn a flag<\/a> at the Republican national Convention in 2016.<\/p>\n

A federal court ruled that Republicans in North Carolina unconstitutionally violated voters\u2019 First Amendment rights<\/a> by gerrymandering congressional districts in 2016 to ensure Republican victory.<\/p>\n

Federal court reject\u2019s terminated Louisiana State University professor\u2019s First Amendment suit against the university<\/a>, stating that there is no meaningful connection between her vulgar and sexually explicit language and her training future elementary school teachers.<\/p>\n

The Second Circuit applied the First Amendment to grant a right for a food truck vendor to use an ethnic slur<\/a> in branding for his company.<\/p>\n

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The Ninth Circuit rules California law that prohibited merchants from imposing surcharges on credit card purchases<\/a> violated the First Amendment right to free speech by restricting how vendors could communicate that an additional amount is charged for credit card purchases.<\/p>\n

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State Court News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A Virginia man asks the Virginia Supreme Court to overturn his six month jail conviction for hanging a black-faced dummy by a noose<\/a> in his front yard to intimidate neighbors, arguing his First Amendment free speech rights were violated.<\/p>\n

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Federal Regulations<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 civil rights division will now provide protection for health-care workers who refuse to provide services<\/a> that run counter to their moral or religious convictions.<\/p>\n

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Other News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The University of Alabama expelled a freshman after her racial rants went viral<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n

Michigan State University will allow white nationalist Richard Spencer to speak on campus<\/a>, after settling a First Amendment lawsuit brought by a Spencer supporter.<\/p>\n

A U.S. Energy Department photographer is seeking whistleblower protection<\/a> after the department placed him on administrative leave for releasing a photo of the Secretary of Energy hugging a coal baron.<\/p>\n

A Louisiana teacher is contemplating a lawsuit after she was forcefully ejected and handcuffed in a video-recorded arrest<\/a> for questioning her superintendent\u2019s pay raise.<\/p>\n

Iowa State University will pay $150,000 to two student leaders of a pro-marijuana advocacy group for unconstitutionally banning the student group\u2019s T-shirts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Jersey prisons announced that it will now make\u00a0 \u201cThe New Jim Crow,\u201d<\/a> a best-selling book on mass incarceration and racial disparity, available to inmates after civil rights groups challenged a previous ban of the book in two state prisons.<\/p>\n

Trump announced his \u201cFake News Awards\u201d while two Republican lawmakers<\/a> and several Democrats criticized the president\u2019s attacks on a free press.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s it for your First Amendment Newsflash January 8-January 21, 2018. We will see you back for more First Amendment news on February 4!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to First Amendment Newsflash, the First Amendment Law Review\u2019s 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\u00a0Twitter\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook\u00a0for regular updates.   Federal Court News Parties in a federal lawsuit that …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}