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Search Results for: first amendment

Posted on May 28, 2021 Free Expression

Fireworks over the First Amendment

At least I hope so. Here are two briefs I filed on behalf of four fireworks companies in New York that have been put out... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2021 Free Expression

First Amendment Special

Jim Romenesko reports, to no one’s surprise, that the public thinks there should be a link between freedom of the press and the quality of... Read more

US District Court for the Northern District of New York
Posted on June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 Litigation

First Amendment claims result in injunction against New York State in Rev. Steven Soos et al v. Cuomo et al

I submitted a proposed amicus curiae brief, working with Agudath Israel of America, a leading advocacy group for orthodox Jews, in this case filed by... Read more

Posted on May 28, 2020June 16, 2020 Litigation

The First Amendment has all kinds of things

Including freedom of religion. I talk about my latest (not my first) adventure with it, in association with the great Harmeet Dhillon and her Center... Read more

College Belushi
Posted on November 18, 2019December 16, 2019 Free Expression

First Amendment Lives on Campus (at least a little)

The online New York Law Journal (sub. required) reports on an important free speech case: Vesting a student association with virtually unbridled discretion in doling... Read more

Posted on November 1, 2019 Free Expression

That great, free First Amendment thing (Best of 2017)

First published July 24, 2017. I was recently, and very briefly, the toast of whatever for my efforts in making the world safe for nasty... Read more

Posted on September 18, 2019 Free Expression

Kinsley on The New York Times’ next First Amendment embarrassment

Not a lot of time to blog these days but this Slate piece from Michael Kinsley is a must-read. Excerpt: [T]he Times believes that its... Read more

Posted on January 15, 2018June 26, 2020 Litigation

Other First Amendment business

Spend enough time perusing LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION® and you might get the impression that there’s only one freedom protected by the First Amendment. This is error. I... Read more

Posted on July 24, 2017July 25, 2017 Free Expression

That great, free First Amendment thing

I was recently, and very briefly, the toast of whatever for my efforts in making the world safe for nasty trademark registrations under the banner... Read more

Posted on April 22, 2016April 28, 2016 Free Expression

“Liberals Against the First Amendment”

Marco Randazza again, this time on naked state-backed censorship at the University of Massachusetts: The UMass conservative organization, the Silent Majority, publishes a newspaper called... Read more

Posted on June 19, 2015June 29, 2015 Section 2(a)

Friends of the court, friends of the First Amendment

The approved and publishable amicus briefs in the appeal regarding the trademark registration of THE SLANTS are trickling in. Certainly interesting to see who is... Read more

Posted on January 3, 2014 Uncategorized

Second class on the First Amendment

The Administration believes bloggers can’t be trusted with free speech the way everyone else is, it seems.  Reports FT.com (hat tip to Marco): Advertisers in... Read more

Posted on June 7, 2013June 13, 2013 Free Expression

Making a joke of the First Amendment

Lawyers don’t do the Constitution any favor when every trifle becomes a matter of litigation — perhaps especially in lawsuits against schools over kids’ “free... Read more

Posted on May 22, 2013March 8, 2015 Free Expression

What the First Amendment isn’t

Eric E. Johnson published this last fall regarding the pathetic misunderstanding of what free speech does, and doesn’t, mean: Ben Stiller stars in the DreamWorks... Read more

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The question of whether consumers are likely to be confused is the signal inquiry that determines if a trademark infringement claim is valid. I write here about trademark law, copyright law, brands, free speech (mostly as it relates to the Internet and social media). That may sound like a lot, but it's just a blog.

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