Podcasts

Public School Students? Religious Speech and Viewpoint Discrimination
Contrary to the often-held assumption and the conclusions of some circuits, I argue that the Court's four student speech cases can be read together as a body of law that permits schools to engage in limited viewpoint discrimination, although the exact contours of that exception remain unclear.

A Reexamination of the Tinker Standard: Freedom of Speech in Public Schools
In some countries, such as the Netherlands and Canada, gay marriage has been a legal right granted to gay and lesbian citizens...

NJ primary vote may have been all messed up!
Ed Felten has been investigating. It seems the Sequoia voting machines have screwed up a lot of the counts...

"Activist involved in landmark Supreme Court speech rights case dies"
"Activist involved in landmark Supreme Court speech rights case dies": Today's edition of The Columbia Missourian contains an article that begins, "Lorena Jeanne Tinker, a peace and civil rights activist, made it her mission to change what she could and chronicle what she couldn't...

C-SPAN Tinker Session
C-SPAN had a program on the 40th Anniversiary of Tinker v. Des Moines, with Mary Beth Tinker and Maryam Ahranjani, a law professor at American University (who I think could have been a little more in touch with the educational world and the impact of Tinker - wonder if they know there are J...

posting at Freedom To Tinker for a few weeks
I was recently invited to guest-post at Freedom to Tinker, formerly Ed Felten’s group blog and now officially hosted by Ed’s Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton...

Parody is a Protected Form of Speech
Targets of criticism seek to shut down Internet sites that poke fun

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Immigration Related Employment Discrimination & Unfair Labor Practices
What to do about employers who discriminate because of national origin

How to prove housing discrimination based on sexual orientation in student housing?
There are several things you can do. First of all, contact any welfare advisors,...

Can a creditor/collection agency call other employees at your place of work AND call your adult children who live in another state?
A creditor can call you at home, several times a day if you aren't answerin...

Can a fifty-fifty notarized doc give a father the right to claim a child on his taxes that does not live with him?
i believe you have custodial custody of you daughter (meaning she lives with you...

How to place husband or wife's name on deed after mortgage closed?
The deed and the mortgage are two separate documents. If at the time you applied...

Can the police enter a house in which they suspect underage drinking is occurring?
No, they cannot, even if the windows are open. The home is NOT like a car, altho...

Religious Decorations
Oklahoma City to pay attorney fees in religious freedom violations lawsuit.

Free Speech
Canterbury agrees to pay $60,000 settlement in civil rights lawsuit.

Indianapolis
alleging the city's police are overly aggressive against the homeless in violation of the protection of free speech and unreasonable searches guaranteed in the US Constitution.

School House Abuse
Selwyn House School agrees to $5 million teacher molestation settlement.

Religious Discrimination
NMSU to pay $165,000 in Muslim discrimination settlement.

Discrimination
race, gender, disability, religious or age discrimiation.