McGeorge School of Law’s Professor, and Capital Center for Law & Policy Director, Leslie Gielow Jacobs was recently quoted in “Threatening Words: Courts lack clarity in determining when rants and raves exceed the boundaries of protected speech and should be considered a real danger” by David L. Hudson Jr. in the August 2018
It looks like Justice Anthony Kennedy will provide the key vote again, in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, argued today in the U.S. Supreme Court. The case pits a cake baker’s free speech claim against the state’s efforts to provide equal access to goods and services regardless of
On Tuesday, Dec. 5, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Colorado civil rights law requires vendors to provide their products and services without discrimination according to, among other things, sexual orientation. A Colorado baker claims that the U.S. Constitution trumps
Protecting Free Speech with Shelby Emmett
I recently sat down with Shelby Emmett, the Director of the Center to Protect Free Speech at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC, for short). Shelby, and the Center to Protect Free speech are based in Arlington, VA.
When it comes to
Today’s Senate Public Safety Committee Informational Hearing on the recent rise of violence at protests struck at the heart of one the most difficult questions California, and the nation, has had to deal with this year: How do we balance the need to protect our constitutional rights to free speech and assembly
Yesterday, the California State Senate Committee on the Judiciary held its first hearing on “Combating Hate While Protecting the Constitution.” The Senate Committee heard testimony from constitutional scholar and dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Erwin Chemerinsky, and from Joanna Mendelson with the Anti-Defamation