First Amenment 2015.doc

Professor Robert Post Spring 2015 The First Amendment: Freedom of Expression I. INTRODUCTION 1. Some First Amendment Puzzles Monkey Parking: Parking Space App Shuts Down in Fan Francisco Locke v. Shore, 634 F.3d 1185 (11th Cir. 2011). Edwards v. District of Columbia, 755 F.3d 996 (D.C. Cir. 2014). Pickup v. Brown, 740 F.3d 1208 (9th Cir. 2014). King v. Governor of New Jersey, 767 F.3d 216 (3d Cir. 2014). Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, 130 S.Ct. 2705 (2010). II. THE ORIGINS OF FIRST AMENDMENT DOCTRINE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TEST. 2. The Marketplace of Ideas and the Development of the Clear and Present Danger Test. Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919). Debs v. United States, 249 U.S. 211 (1919). Espionage Act of 1918, 40 Stat. 553. Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919). Recommended: Frederick Schauer, Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry (1982), ch. 2. Jurgen Habermas, Legitimation Crisis 102-10 (T. McCarthy trans. 1973). 3. Hands Focus on Incitement and the Clear and Present Danger Test: Categories of Expression and the Circumstances of Expression. Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten, 244 F. 535 (S.D.N.Y.), revd, 246 F. 24 (2d Cir. 1917). Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925). Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 372-80 (1927) (Brandeis, J., concurring). Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U.S. 88 (1940). Recommended: Robert Bork, Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems, 47 Ind. L. J. 1, 21-26, 30-35 (1971). Thomas I. Emerson, The System of Freedom of Expression (1970), 46-53. 4. The Fate of the Clear and Present Danger Test: Can First Amendment Doctrine Resist a Consensus to Suppress? Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494 (1951). Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969). NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982). Virginia v. Black, 538 U.S. 343 (2003). III. THEORIES OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: FUNDAMENTAL FIRST AMENDMENT VALUES. 5. What is