303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, 2023 U.S. LEXIS 2794 (S. Ct. June 30, 2023) (Gorsuch, J.) Like many States, Colorado has a law forbidding businesses from engaging in discrimination when they sell goods and services to the public. Laws along these lines have done much to secure the civil rights of all Americans. But in […]
Tag: First Amendment
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-FIRST AMENDMENT-SPEECH-IMMIGRATION VIOLATION-OVERBREADTH
United States v. Hansen, 2023 U.S. LEXIS 2638 (S. Ct. June 23, 2023) (Barrett, J.) A federal law prohibits “encourag[ing] or induc[ing]” illegal immigration. 8 U. S. C. §1324(a)(1)(A)(iv). After concluding that this statute criminalizes immigration advocacy and other protected speech, the Ninth Circuit held it unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment. That was error. […]
WORKERS’ RIGHTS-FIRST AMENDMENT-POLITICAL AFFILIATION
Minor v. River, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 14239 (3d Cir. June 8, 2023) (Ambro, C.J.). The Delaware River and Bay Authority (DRBA) hired Frank Minor as its Deputy Executive Director in 2009 and terminated him in December 2017. Minor, believing he was fired for his support of then-incoming New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, sued the […]