Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 19, 2023

Colorado , 600 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that to establish that a statement is a “true threat” unprotected by the First Amendment, the state must prove that the defendant had some subjective understanding of the statements’ threatening nature, based on a showing no more demanding than recklessness. In Counterman v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 25, 2023

Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees. The law defines “public accommodation” broadly to include almost every public-facing business in the State. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Share Last term at the Supreme Court teemed with culture-war issues: guns , religion , climate change , COVID vaccines , and of course abortion. In 1978 , 2003 , and 2016 , the court affirmed that universities may consider applicants’ race as part of an effort to foster diversity on campus. 9, another remedial statute is at risk.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2023

Jack Phillip, the Colorado baker who brought the challenge in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. Colorado Civil Rights Commission has again lost an appeal in Colorado state court. The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that the refusal to make the cake requested by Autumn Scardina did not constitute free speech.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 27, 2021

There is a new ruling out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit that could be headed for a major showdown in the Supreme Court. Elenis could force a hitherto evasive Court to rule directly on the conflict between anti-discrimination laws and the religious clauses. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that a Texas law requiring age-verification and warning labels about the alleged dangers of porn contravenes the First Amendment. The court found that “the statute is not narrowly tailored and chills the speech of Plaintiffs and adults who wish to access sexual materials. [it]

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 4, 2021

Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. The Supreme Court reversed an intermediate appellate court’s decision affirming a superior court determination that the defendant could not present a necessity defense.

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