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He Tweets, He Misses! Court Blocks Gilbert Arenas's Preliminary Injunction

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Basketball Wives: Los Angeles lives! And one of the reasons is an athlete's Twitter habit.

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BART Phone Blackout: Did the S.F. Transit Agency Violate Free Speech Protections? Part 2

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This is the second half of an analysis of the free speech issues implicated by the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)'s shutdown of mobile phone service on Aug. 11 in order to prevent scheduled protests.  The first part of the blog is available here.

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BART Phone Blackout: Did the S.F. Transit Agency Violate Free Speech Protections?

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When the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) shut down cell phone service at various train platforms on Aug.

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Banned in (Much of) Britain, and Beyond?

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Social media are abuzz about English Premier League footballer ("soccer player" to us Yanks) Ryan Giggs, who has obtained an order from a British court requiring Twitter to reveal the identity of various tweeters who identified him as having had an affair with model and Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas.

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Intentional Grounding: Can Public Colleges Limit Athletes' Tweets?

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An exercise we did Friday at Univeristy of Nevada, Reno's High School Journalism Day raised an interesting legal question: can a public university restrict its students' use of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter?

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Hate Mongers and Tunnel Rats are Entitled to Free Speech, Too

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It's often said that bad cases make bad law.  In the case of a decision issued by a New Jersey state court back in December, a bad case has also made for bad law commentary.

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New Hampshire Supreme Court Upholds Free Speech Rights for Online News Sites

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The New Hampshire Supreme Court today issued an important decision upholding the First Amendment rights of online publishers.

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Fake Giraffe Update: Louisiana Court Sides With Satirical Website

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Nicholas Brilleaux, publisher of Hammond Action News, got a big victory yesterday when a Louisiana judge dissolved an order prohibiting him from posting a satirical news story about a fictional giraffe attack on his blog.

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