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Bilzin Sumberg

Supreme Court’s Social Media Ruling Tilts Toward Free Speech

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The US Supreme Court this month declined to rule on whether Florida and Texas laws limiting social media platforms’ content moderation violates the First Amendment, sending the issue back to the lower courts. But in doing so,...more

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The Academic Advisor - Education Law Insights, Issue 3, March 2024

Welcome to the third issue of The Academic Advisor for 2024. In this edition, we examine the following topics of import for schools, institutions of higher education, and other education-focused organizations: -...more

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Texas Students' Petition for Emergency First Amendment Ruling

Campuses across the country have ongoing debates regarding many different aspects of free speech. At the heart of these debates is whether efforts to confront bias on campuses intimidate students who want to speak their mind....more

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Federal Court Rules Texas Drone Law Not Facially Unconstitutional

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s 2022 ruling on the constitutionality of Texas Chapter 423 law (i.e., the drone law) which restricts the actions of drones. Nat’l Press Photographers...more

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Texas Drone Law Unconstitutional

U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman struck down a Texas drone law (one of the most restrictive in the U.S.), for violating the First Amendment’s protections of freedom of speech and the press. While there have been other cases...more

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Texas Anti-SLAPP Law: The Expanding Scope of the Texas Citizen’s Participation Act – Part 1

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The Texas Anti-SLAPP law is known as the Texas Citizens Participation Act (the “TCPA” found at Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code at § 27.001, et seq.). “If a legal action is based on, relates to, or is in response to a party’s...more

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