New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Chris Dunn | May 31, 2023
The First Amendment may limit the extent to which government officials can block from their accounts members of the public who post comments critical of the officials. Social media blocking is burgeoning—at the NYCLU we now receive many complaints about this practice every month—and the federal appellate courts are just starting to grapple with the constitutional issues it raises.
By Adolfo Pesquera | May 19, 2023
Texas state Sen. Bryan Hughes said many social media companies include a provision in their terms of service to require any actions against them be made in states that are beneficial to the social media companies.
By Adolfo Pesquera | May 19, 2023
The Supreme Court has urged the lower-level appellate courts to accept more permissive appeals, but recognizes it does not have authority to mandate that they do so.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Ilann M. Maazel | May 10, 2023
I had the privilege of being part of the team that recently won a $10 million jury verdict in a rape case against two-time Oscar-winning writer and director, Paul Haggis. It was the first-ever case tried under the New York City Victims of Gender Motivated Violence Protection Act. From this and many other #MeToo cases in my firm's practice, here are some tips on how not just to threaten a #MeToo case, but to win one.
By Riley Brennan | May 2, 2023
"It's not just the absence of protections from the U.S. Supreme Court," said Matt Segal, one of two senior staff attorneys tapped for the ACLU's new State Supreme Court Initiative. "It's also that we have seen in many ways that state supreme courts are important in the lives of people across this country and often act in important ways to protect them."
By Adolfo Pesquera | April 26, 2023
The bills could affect peremptory challenges of prospective jurors.
By Ellen Bardash | April 4, 2023
Attorneys with experience in defamation law say they can't remember another case, in Delaware or otherwise, in which a plaintiff had such a high likelihood of being able to win against a media company.
By Adolfo Pesquera | March 31, 2023
Pitman criticized defense counsel Jonathan Mitchell for donating to the library the previously removed books three months into litigation.
By Jason Grant | March 23, 2023
Citing a "substantiated excuse" of law office failure, a state appeals court has reversed a lower court's dismissal of what is believed to be the first lawsuit lodged under New York City's "revenge porn" law, which was instituted in 2018.
By Brad Kutner | March 21, 2023
"Maybe it'll be an additional incentive for education systems to do a better job educating children with disabilities," said Georgetown Law professor Brian Wolfman.
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