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Blogbeitrag#3128. April 2024

FIRE's Response to Police Dispersing Pro-Palestinian Protesters at UT Austin

Blog: Reason.com

As I've noted before, public universities have considerable authority to impose content-neutral rules on demonstrations, for instance prohibiting overnight campouts, restricting sound amplification, and so on. But of course the First Amendment requires such rules to be content-neutral (or, in "limited public forums" on campuses, at least viewpoint-neutral). And even content-neutral restrictions in outdoor quads,…

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Blogbeitrag#3228. April 2024

University of Illinois Relocates Demonstration [UPDATE: Demonstrators Return, University Threatens Arrest and Suspension]

Blog: Reason.com

UPDATE 4/29/2024, 12:05 am: Here's an item circulated Sunday evening: We write this evening to let the campus community know that demonstration activity began on the south end of the Main Quad several hours ago. This is a resumption of Friday's activities. The demonstrators were again informed of the policies and rules for activities in…

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Blogbeitrag#3327. April 2024

Court Upholds #TheyLied Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress Award Against Student Who Accused Professor of Sexual Assault

Blog: Reason.com

but throws out a similar award against another professor who backed the student's allegations. (A jury had concluded the student's allegations were false and defamatory.)

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Blogbeitrag#3427. April 2024

No Pseudonymity in Title IX Wrongful-Discipline Lawsuits, Holds Seventh Circuit

Blog: Reason.com

The decision departs from what most courts have done in such Title IX cases—but tracks what most courts do in the many other cases where disclosing a plaintiff's name might damage the plaintiff's reputation and professional prospects.

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Blogbeitrag#3527. April 2024

MIT President's Statement on the Anti-Israel Students' Encampment

Blog: Reason.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBoNDRuyLww Here's the transcript; on balance, the message seems to me to be correct (though I would be inclined to say that such encampments, if they violate content-neutral rules—as they usually do—should be removed more promptly): Hello, everyone. As you surely know, campus communities across the country are struggling to cope with strongly contending views…

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Blogbeitrag#3625. April 2024

Thursday Open Thread

Blog: Reason.com

What's on your mind?

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Blogbeitrag#3724. April 2024

Gen. Michael Flynn's Brother v. CNN "False Light" Lawsuit Dismissed

Blog: Reason.com

From today's decision by Judge Arun Subramanian (S.D.N.Y.) in Flynn v. CNN, Inc.: Plaintiffs Jack and Leslie Flynn have sued Defendant Cable News Network … under Rhode Island's false-light statute. The Flynns claim $75 million in damages. The entire dispute stems from a six-minute segment and, more specifically, the segment's use of a two-second clip…

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Blogbeitrag#3824. April 2024

No Pseudonymity in Lawsuit Challenging N.Y.'s Involuntary Commitment System as It Affects Gun Rights

Blog: Reason.com

In P.D. v. Sullivan (S.D.N.Y.), plaintiff alleges: New York State Mental Hygiene Law 9.39 is used to admit individuals to a hospital solely for emergency observation and evaluation as a person "alleged" to have a mental illness. An admission under MHL 9.39 is not a formal adjudication that an individual suffers from a mental disease or…

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Blogbeitrag#3924. April 2024

Private, Shmivate: Sit-ins, Campouts, and True Threats Are Constitutionally Unprotected at Universities, Whether Private or Public

Blog: Reason.com

The Wall Street Journal had an editorial this morning called "Defining Free Speech Down on Campus"; I agree that disruptive protests are unprotected by the First Amendment, but I think the editorial erred in its emphasis. The editorial begins by arguing that no First Amendment rights to protest on privately owned property: Universities are supposed…

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Blogbeitrag#4024. April 2024

John McWhorter on the Columbia Protests

Blog: Reason.com

An excerpt from his column in yesterday's N.Y. Times: Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on the composer John Cage. His most famous piece is "4'33"," which directs us to listen in silence to surrounding noise for exactly that amount of time.…

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Blogbeitrag#4123. April 2024

Northwestern Dean of Students' Presence at Anti-Israel Protest

Blog: Reason.com

[UPDATE 4/24/24: See David's response here.] I've seen some items online asserting that the Northwestern Dean of Students "joins anti-Israel rally organized by far-left student groups," was "openly standing in solidarity with students engaged in anti-Semitism and intimidation," or was otherwise at fault in supporting the rally. Our own David Bernstein, for instance, posted at…

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Blogbeitrag#4222. April 2024

District Court Unseals Sentencing Memorandum in Case Involving Detroit's "Topless Prophet"

Blog: Reason.com

From Judge Linda Parker's opinion Thursday in U.S. v. Markovitz (E.D. Mich.); the defendant is the author of Topless Prophet: The True Story of America's Most Successful Gentleman's Club Entrepreneur, though the criminal case appears unrelated to the book: Charles Blackwell initiated this miscellaneous action to unseal the sentencing memoranda in the criminal proceedings against…

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Blogbeitrag#4322. April 2024

Monday Open Thread

Blog: Reason.com

What's on your mind?

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Blogbeitrag#4422. April 2024

Despite Police Pushback, Biden Presses On With Visit To Syracuse After Two Cops Were Just Slain

Blog: Reason.com

From the Daily Caller: Biden is set to travel to the city on Thursday to promote the CHIPS and Science Act and announce a grant delivered by the legislation, according to CNY Central News. The president opted not to delay the trip following the loss Syracuse Police Officer Michael Jensen and Onondaga County Lt. Sheriff's Deputy Michael…

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Blogbeitrag#4522. April 2024

Brief Challenging Texas Restriction on "Sexual Gesticulations Using Accessories or Prosthetics That Exaggerate … Sexual Characteristics"

Blog: Reason.com

I was delighted to sign on to this amicus brief supporting the challenge to Texas's S.B. 12 (Woodlands Pride, Inc. v. Paxton (5th Cir.)), which was filed on behalf of Prof. Dale Carpenter (SMU), Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley), the Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic at Vanderbilt Law School, and me. Here's a summary of the Texas statute,…

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