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Online Threats: The Dire Need for a Reboot in True-Threats Jurisprudence

Oct 10, 2019 | Case Note, First Amendment, John Sivils

By John Sivils Abstract Free speech protection ends where true threats begin. The Supreme Court of the United States has defined “true threats” as “those statements where the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful...

The Rise of the Viewpoint-Discrimination Principle

Sep 15, 2019 | Essay, First Amendment, Lackland H. Bloom Jr., Supreme Court of the United States

By Lackland H. Bloom, Jr. Abstract The Supreme Court’s freedom-of-speech jurisprudence is complicated. There are few hard and fast rules. One is that judicially-imposed prior restraints on speech are hardly ever permissible. In recent years, another hard and fast rule...

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