The Lawyer as Public Figure for First Amendment Purposes

The First Amendment and public health, at odds.

At the turn of the last century, allies of industry on the Supreme Court deployed a novel constitutional doctrine to thwart government regulations aimed at improving public health and safety. During the Lochner v. New York era, the Supreme Court discovered a right to “freedom of contract” in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that advanced the “economic liberty” of businesses to...

Expressive Merchandise and the First Amendment in Public Fora

Courts have struggled to strike a balance between the interests of individuals and cities with the application of intermediate scrutiny to content-neutral time, place, and manner restrictions, and several variations have emerged. This Comment will examine the breadth of those approaches as they affect the determination of what expression triggers First Amendment protection. Ultimately, the Note...

Filters and the First Amendment

Smoking and the First Amendment.

2351 provide solutions to all the complex problems of health worker migration, it offers needed guidance on possible policy and legislative approaches. There is growing evidence that its legal framework can work as a platform for cooperation to strengthen health workforce systems. Sixtynine countries have thus far designated a national authority responsible for the exchange of information on he...

Physicians and the First Amendment.

In the November elections, the citizens of three states resoundingly defeated initiatives aimed at curtailing reproductive rights. In Colorado, a proposed amendment to the state’s Constitution would have given the same legal rights to fertilized eggs as to living persons. This amendment, which was rejected by a wide margin, would have had broad ramifications for abortion rights, the use of cont...