The Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro has done it again. For the third year in a row, he has filed what he calls one of Cato’s “funny briefs” with the U.S. Supreme Court, an amicus curiae brief that celebrates, more or less, the objectionable speech at issue in a First Amendment case.
The latest brief weighed in on Lee v. Tam, a challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decision to deny trademark registration to the Asian-American rock band called The Slants because the name is “disparaging.” The case will be argued Jan. 18.
