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Upcoming Supreme Court Oral Arguments in IP & Tech Cases

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Hetronic (Extraterritorial application of US Trademark Law — damages from foreign sales). Colorado (When does speech rise to a “true threat”, unprotected by the First Amendment. Younter (If SJ is denied on a question of law, must the party reassert the issue in JMOL in order to preserve the issue for appeal.

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Supreme Court Clarifies First Amendment Test for True Threats

Constitutional Law Reporter

Colorado , 600 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. 18–3–602(1)(c), a Colorado statute making it unlawful to “[r]epeatedly. Following Colorado law, the trial court rejected that argument under an objective standard, finding that a reasonable person would consider the messages threatening. The Colorado Supreme Court denied review.

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Why Do We Treat Sex Crimes Differently Than Other Violent Crimes?

The Crime Report

In a recently published research paper in the Stanford Law Review, Aya Gruber, a law professor at the University of Colorado, considers the concept of “sex exceptionalism” in the United States criminal justice system and asks readers to take a second look at how we treat sex crimes. Gruber asked.

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