Oregon Legal Research BlogThe contest’s essay topic for 2022: The First Amendment and the Schoolhouse Gate: Students’ Free Speech Rights
High school students who live within U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit jurisdiction may enter the contest.
Articles Tagged with First amendment
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Protests, Journalists, First Amendment, and the Little Red House (Portland, OR)
Plots thicken. Yes, they do. The “little red house” saga in Portland, Oregon, is a perfect example.
One article by journalists working with Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) summed up What We Know So Far, as of December 10, 2020, which, as you know if you continue to follow the story, had to be updated the next day and the next day and ….
The lesson to be learned here is always to listen, breathe, stop, read, research, listen, stop, sleep, read, and breathe again before you decide where you stand on an (or any) idea, news story, or shouted slogan.
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Writer, Director John Waters to Keynote AALL Annual Meeting in Baltimore, July 2018
John Waters and law librarians? This should be one for the books – and the pods, tubes, eeks, etc.
[FYI: AALL is the American Association of Law Libraries]
I’ve heard Mr. Waters speak from multiple platforms (he’s totally delightful) but never on library, legal, or access to justice topics, although he has had more than his fair share of censorship litigation experiences, so he likely has talked in the past about those. The Keynote speech should itself become a great topic for discussion at the usually, um, memorable Fastcase party.
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January 7, Paris: Law librarians and free press, free speech human rights advocates: Je suis Charlie
Judges, public interest lawyers, and law librarians have a special interest in this European equivalent to a First Amendment battle. We stand up every day for people who want their voices to be heard and their human rights respected.
This growing cartoon collection is one of the most moving images so far from January 7th:
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Obsidian & Padrick v. Cox Update
Background:
1) OSB Bar Bulletin April 2012 article, by Janine Robben, “How Oregon’s Blogging Defamiation Case Attracted National Attention”
2) Previous OLR blog post: When is blogging defamation, extortion, or free speech?
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A U.S. College Campus Free Speech Story Worthy of a Entry in “News of the Weird”?
Above the Law brings us the following news story worthy of News of the Weird.
California College Tells Student He Can’t Hand Out Copies Of The Constitution On Constitution Day,” which links to a story from FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education): “California College Forbids Passing Out Constitutions…On Constitution Day.”
How can one not love News of the Weird, which I usually catch up on through my Funny Times subscription? (You can also check out the News of the Weird Archive.)
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Civil Liberties Debate: John Yoo – Steve Wax, Alaska Debate Transcript on DVD
My law library now has a copy of the DVD (2 disks):
Alaska Bar Association: “Excerpt from 2011 Convention, Fairbanks, AK: The Balance Between Security & Civil Liberties in War Times,”
featuring UC-Berkely Law Professor John Yoo (former White House attorney under George W. Bush) and Steve Wax (Oregon Federal Public Defender)