U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Jan. 30, 2014
UCLA law professor helps expand free speech protections to bloggers
Eugene Volokh persuaded the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that First Amendment protections in libel cases apply to everyone who publishes their view, not just to a favored group of professional journalists.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
UCLA School of Law professor Eugene Volokh was about to publish a history of the freedom of the press when a nagging question wouldn't let go.
"Why am I writing about this when I could be doing something about it?" Volokh said he asked himself as he pondered how some First Amendment constitutional protections have been applied only to the institutional press but not to book authors, write...
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