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Lord McAlpine and Twitter Libel: Does failing to sue when a libel is first...
Image via http://www.dailymail.co.uk The recent media scandal involving British peer, Lord McAlpine (pictured above) who threatened to sue the BBC, ITV and thousands of Twitter users over false...
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From the Censorious Criminal Libel Files (Canada Edition)
Image via http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org BCCLA demands watchdog investigate RCMP actions against critic | BC Civil Liberties Association.: New information in unsealed court documents has the...
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Threats of violence are not protected free speech, Supreme Court of Canada rules
This morning, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously affirmed the convictions of terrorism under Part II.1 of Criminal Code in R. v. Khawaja - 2012 SCC 69. On the issue of whether the provisions under...
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Matthew M. Pagett, “Sticks, Stones, and Cyberspace: On Cyberbullying and the...
Matthew M. Pagett (North Carolina Court of Appeals) has posted “Sticks, Stones, and Cyberspace: On Cyberbullying and the Limits of Student Speech”, UNC School of Government School Law Bulletin 2012/2,...
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Matthew Lafferman, “Do Facebook and Twitter Make You a Public Figure?: How to...
Matthew Lafferman (JD Candidate, George Mason University – School of Law) has published “Do Facebook and Twitter Make You a Public Figure?: How to Apply the Gertz Public Figure Doctrine to Social...
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Alexander Tsesis on “Inflammatory Speech: Offense versus Incitement”
Alexander Tsesis (Loyola University Chicago School of Law) has posted ”Inflammatory Speech: Offense versus Incitement”, Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 97, 2013/Loyola University Chicago School of Law...
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Jorge R. Roig on “Emerging Technologies and Dwindling Speech”
Jorge R. Roig (Charleston School of Law) has posted “Emerging Technologies and Dwindling Speech”, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 16, 2013 (Forthcoming). The abstract...
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Revenge Is A Link Best Served Cold
Engraving by Gustave Doré illustrating the Erinyes, chthonic deities of vengeance and death (via Wikipedia/Wiki Commons) I have been remiss in not writing about a recent debate in the Blawgosphere...
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