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Attorney Speech Restriction Violates First Amendment
The tide is coming in on professional speech regulation. While we still don’t have an official “professional speech doctrine,” since the 2018 decision in NIFLA v. Becerra, the pace of cases considering – and…
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Photography, Discrimination, and the Limits of Speech Regulation
Chelsey Nelson Photography v. Louisville, a federal District Court case decided in August, is our latest entrant in the slowly-expanding string of cases recognizing that strong First Amendment interests are at play when professional…
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Gorsuch Weighs in on Legal Deregulation
There was a terrific access-to-justice piece in US Today last week, authored by former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Love Kourlis and her fellow Coloradan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Kourlis and Gorsuch…
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Arizona Cuts Attorney Regulation
Following on the heels of Utah, Arizona has approved sweeping changes to its rules regulating the practice of law. Once again, I’m pleasantly surprised that a state bar has gone for what I’ve long…
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Recent Cases Bode Well for Professional Speech Rights
Catching up – this summer has seen some important developments on the professional speech front: Billups Decision Affirmed on Appeal In Billups v. City of Charleston, a unanimous 4th Circuit panel affirmed the District…
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Summer of CDA 230
Since my last series of posts on this topic, there has been an epic surge of hot nonsense government proposals on CDA 230. First up: Donald F. Trump’s executive order purporting to take social…
