The first case of a person being arrested for attempting to challenge Florida’s antitrans bathroom law has been tossed out of court after state prosecutors missed filing deadlines. Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old transgender college student, was arrested in March for washing her hands in the women’s restroom of the Florida Statehouse in Tallahassee. She was […]
What are the First Amendment rights of minors? You might imagine two extreme positions: Minors have the same rights as adults. Friendly amendment: Restrictions on their rights have to be judged under the same tests (such as “strict scrutiny”) applicable to restrictions on adults’ rights, even if the tests might sometimes practically play out slightly […]
Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Monday that Anthropic did not violate the Copyright Act by training its large language model (LLM) on copyrighted books so long as those books were legally acquired. This case is one of many filed against artificial intelligence (AI) companies for […]
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The majority in today’s Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton began with the established principle (see Justice Brennan’s majority opinion in Ginsberg v. N.Y. (1968)) that certain material may be constitutionally protected for adults but unprotected when distributed to minors: When regulating minors’ access to sexual content, the State may broaden Miller‘s “definition of obscenity” to […]
AI-Generated Image. Â In today’s Supreme Court ruling in FCC v. Consumers’ Research, a 6-3 majority upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to impose levies on telecommunications carriers to support a “Universal Service Fund” intended to subsidize telecommunications services for low-income consumers, people in rural areas, and some others who might not otherwise get them. […]
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Today’s majority upholds an age verification requirement for online porn, which is of course the more speech-restrictive option in this case. And it upholds the law by concluding that the “strict scrutiny” test—which the Court generally uses to evaluate content-based restrictions on speech that falls outside the First Amendment exceptions—doesn’t apply to such age verification […]
Thanks to Eugene for blogging about Justice Jackson’s shout-out, in FCC v. Consumers’ Research, to my Notre Dame Law Review article, The Myth of the Federal Private Nondelegation Doctrine. (I’m in Paris today and just saw Notre Dame from the top of the Eiffel Tower a few hours ago, so this makes sense.) He quoted […]