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L.B.Lidsky

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I teach and write about defamation, the First Amendment, media law, and other fun topics. I survived cancer and being a higher ed administrator.
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A Prominent Free-Speech Group Is Fighting for Its Life - The Atlantic
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Yesterday, we argued to the 4th Circuit that South Carolina's prohibition on the unauthorized practice of law violates the First Amendment rights of the South Carolina NAACP and its members to provide basic legal advice to tenants facing eviction. www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...
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I’m grateful one of the people responsible for my friend Dan’s murder was found guilty yesterday.
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30 hostages under under 16. Youngest is 9 months old.
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Florida is suing platforms for harming kids while simultaneously, in NetChoice, defending a FL law compelling platforms to leave up even the most explicit, graphically violent, bullying, pro-teen-anorexia, racist, etc. content. 2/
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Via Paul Alan Levy, I learn that the ACLU has filed an amicus brief arguing against Judge Chutkan’s gag order, making many of the points critics have been making (like “target” being too vague. www.acludc.org/sites/defaul...
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Are you passionate about transparency and accountability in tech? Join our team as a legal intern next semester! We work on a range of issues from online fair use of copyrighted materials to illegal government spying!  Apply today!
Legal Internship - Spring 2024www.eff.org Applications for Spring 2024 internships are due November 15, 2023. Applications will be evaluated as they are received. You are...
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NEW: Trump moves to dismiss his DC case on the grounds of the First Amendment — as well as the impeachment and double-jeopardy clauses and the Due Process clause storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#FirstAmendment #Overbreadth #Vagueness #Dystopia
Proposed Florida rule bans public univ activities "intended to achieve a desired result related to social issues," defined as "topics that polarize or divide society among political, ideological, moral, or religious beliefs, positions, or norms." USF lawyer: "I can’t think of anything that doesn't."
Florida rule would limit talk of ‘social issues’ at public universitieswww.tampabay.com Critics say a proposed regulation is too broad and could inhibit free speech.
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Here is the full, translated statement from the Raanan family in response to Shaun King’s bizarre claim that he played a part in getting Judith and Natalie Raanan released by Hamas:
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Thomas Friedman is suddenly making sense and now I’m scared
T Friedman is doing what he can to get this message across. I am glad he is doing it this starkly. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/o...
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Gaza, home to 2.3 million people, is almost out of fuel, nearly two weeks after Israel imposed a “full siege” on the territory and launched an air war against Hamas. The U.N. said Sunday that its relief agency for Palestinian refugees that operates in Gaza would run out of fuel in three days.
Gaza gets some aid — but no fuel — as power crisis upends liveswww.washingtonpost.com Fuel was excluded from the first aid shipment to Gaza since the war began. The shortage has exacerbated an already dire humanitarian crisis.
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IDF: we have identified 210 hostages held by Hamas.
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If we're going to be originalists, I cannot emphasize enough how much historical evidence there is that freedom of the press included (at least) the right of the press to maintain the secrecy of their sources. For example, from 1769: