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Schools, Worship, and the First Amendment
(2015)
This five-part article examines the use of public school space for worship, arguing that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was wrong in its First Amendment analysis related to the Free Speech Clause, the Establishment ...
Sign Regulation After Ladue: Examining the Evolving Limits of First Amendment Protection
(1995)
This article examines the law of sign and billboard regulations, with particular attention to the dual concerns noted by the U.S. Supreme Court in City of Ladue v. Gilleo of restricting "too much" speech and restricting ...
The First Amendment and Religion After Hosanna-Tabor
(2014)
The Supreme Court’s treatment of religion under the First Amendment has shifted significantly in the past quarter century. Though the Court had focused on separation for the Establishment Clause and accommodation for the ...
Religion as Speech: The Growing Role of Free Speech Jurisprudence in Protecting Religious Liberty
(2008)
This article explores the role of free speech jurisprudence in protecting religious liberty, both describing how that role has grown in recent years and evaluating its propriety for the twenty-first century. The article ...
Where to Pray? Religious Zoning and the First Amendment
(1987)
Despite emerging recognition that the normal rules do not apply when zoning affects first amendment activities, the Supreme Court has not yet definitively addressed zoning restrictions that affect the exercise of religion. ...
Politics, Religion, and the First Amendment
(2000)
This article examines some of the lesser-studied constitutional issues surrounding the religion-in-politics debate. Part I of the article examines the perceived relation of religion and politics at the nation's founding, ...
Property and the First Amendment
(1997)
This article will examine the relationship of property interests to First Amendment exercise, and in particular the Supreme Court’s treatment of the ways property interests might interact with First Amendment rights. ...
Opening the Broom Closet: Recognizing the Religious Rights of Wiccans, Witches, and Other Neo-Pagans
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2011-11)
Religious freedom is a core component of our nation and one of the most widely known and accepted constitutional guarantees provided by the First Amendment. No prior civilization had adopted a national policy that tolerated ...
Watching the Watchmen: The People’s Attempt to Hold On-Duty Law Enforcement Officers Accountable for Misconduct and the Illinois Law that Stands in Their Way
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2012-04)
In the days when police brutality and public official corruption pump through the veins of society as a fermenting virus, a critical analysis of a controversial law curtailing efforts to intensify public awareness of ...
Speech Shouldn't be "Free" at Funerals: An Analysis of the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2008-05)
This comment analyzes the facial constitutionality of the protest limitation provisions of the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act under the First Amendment's free speech clause and concludes that they are constitutional ...