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View AllOccupy Wall Street Filmmaker Wins First Round in Lawsuit Against Police, NYC
March 28
A federal judge refused to dismiss the lawsuit by an activist who was arrested while filming protests in 2011. Now the filmmaker and her legal team will have a chance to investigate the city’s training policies regarding the First Amendment and handling the media.
Civil Rights, Conlaw, Criminal Justice, Documentaries blog, Documentaries, First Amendment Law School Dean Theodore Ruger, GSE Dean Pam Grossman, and Harvard’s Jill Lepore discuss Constitutional education during an “era of Constitutional crisis:” Penn Today
September 28
Conlaw, dean ruger, Faculty, Government, Legal History, Media, News, Penn, theodore rugerProf. Eric Feldman cautions that religious exceptions provide easy, unpoliced way for people to skirt COVID-19 vaccine mandates: Insider
September 17
Conlaw, Coronavirus, Eric A. Feldman, Faculty, Health Law, Media, News, SCOTUSProf. Kermit Roosevelt explains why the dismissal of obscenity charges against a homeowner over lawn signs was the right decision: Law.com
July 30
Conlaw, Faculty, Kermit Roosevelt, MediaLegal scholarship of Jessica Rizzo L’21 published in three law journals
July 29
Rizzo’s recently published pieces span constitutional, environmental, family, and intellectual property law.
Alumni, Conlaw, Cross Disciplinary, Environment, Featured, IP, Journal of Con Law, Publications, Students Prof. Wolff: The Supreme Court’s First Amendment decision leaves vague the boundaries of its protection
June 24
Prof. Wolff stated that while the decision is “good,” the opinion doesn’t offer much guidance for the future of the First Amendment in schools.
Conlaw, faculty perspectives, Faculty, inclusionfacultyvoices, SCOTUS, Social Institute for Law and Philosophy’s Sigal Ben-Porath explains issues in SCOTUS case involving high school cheerleader: Penn Today
June 23
Conlaw, ILP, MediaInstitute for Law and Philosophy’s Sigal Ben-Porath explains issues in SCOTUS case involving high school cheerleader: Penn Today
June 23
Conlaw, ILP, MediaInstitute for Law and Philosophy’s Sigal Ben-Porath shares insights on Supreme Court’s ruling in First Amendment in schools case
June 23
Ben-Porath calls it “a good day when [the Court] sides with a student’s right to freely express her views, her feelings, and her criticism of the rules of the community of which she forms a part.”
Conlaw, ILP, SCOTUS Prof. Wolff anticipates that recent SCOTUS ruling could mean local government agencies’ broadly granting religious exemptions: WHYY
June 18
Conlaw, Faculty, Government, LGBTQ, Media, SCOTUS, Tobias Barrington WolffProf. Wolff anticipates that recent SCOTUS ruling could mean local government agencies’ broadly granting religious exemptions: WHYY
June 18
Conlaw, Faculty, Government, LGBTQ, Media, SCOTUS, Tobias Barrington Wolff