Ronald K.L. Collins' First Amendment News

Professor Collins provides insight into the Stanford shoutdown of a federal judge through the example of Stanford Law School’s renowned constitutionalist Gerald Gunther (1927-2002), who predicted the problem that today has engulfed his law school.

Soon enough Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric M. Davis will rule on summary judgment motions in the $1.6 billion defamation case Dominion Voting Systems has brought against Fox News and its parent company.

What a raucous spectacle it was at Stanford Law School last week as an unruly group loudly berated a federal judge while an associate dean intervened only to lecture the judge.

Notwithstanding his concerns about individual privacy, when it came to secrecy and power, Louis Brandeis stressed that “PUBLICITY is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.

In December 2018, two officers of the U.S. Park Service came to Gordon Price’s music store and issued a citation for failure to obtain a commercial filming permit.

After almost six decades of existing as settled law, the reign of New York Times, Inc. v. Sullivan is under attack on several fronts.

"Gonzalez is a massively important case about a specific application of section 230, but it’s not the massively important case about big tech that Justice Thomas has been clamoring for the Justices to take up.” — Professor Stephen Vladeck

Since the invention of type, books have regularly posed a threat to the existing establishments of the day — thus did the papacy rightfully fear Martin Luther and his printed Bible.

Law professor Ronald Collins examines new and forthcoming scholarship on free speech law.