Happy Hump Day Everybody! Hope all had a nice Labor Day weekend. Read now to catch up on First Amendment news.<\/p>\n
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The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that feeding the homeless is \u201cexpressive conduct protected by the First Amendment,\u201d in Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs v. City of Fort Lauderdale<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Pittsburgh, Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church<\/a> won a unanimous ruling in a breach of contract lawsuit filed by its former pastor. A three-judge panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia stated that the First Amendment prevents courts from deciding questions of spiritual leadership.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Other News<\/p>\n Facebook and Twitter executives are to testify<\/a> on Capitol Hill regarding \u201csocial media companies\u2019 responses to foreign influence operations.\u201d<\/p>\n As Brett Kavanaugh hearings begin,\u00a0the New York Times gave an overview of his potential impact<\/a> on First Amendment and other rights.<\/p>\n Nike shows support for Colin Kaepernick<\/a>\u00a0with a new full-length\u00a0commercial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Hump Day Everybody! Hope all had a nice Labor Day weekend. Read now to catch up on First Amendment news. Federal Courts The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that feeding the homeless is \u201cexpressive conduct protected by the First Amendment,\u201d in Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs v. City of Fort Lauderdale. …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2310,"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\/2309"}],"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=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/firstamendmentlawreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}