The Legal Satyricon
This blawg focuses on First Amendment, entertainment, and intellectual property law issues as well as commentary on legal practice and legal education issues.
Author: Marc J. Randazza is an associate at Weston, Garrou, DeWitt & Walters in Altamonte Springs, Fla. He is also an adjunct professor at Barry University's Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law in Orlando, Fla.
Blawg Related Categories: Entertainment & Sports Law • First Amendment • Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Trademark Law • Internet Law • Law Practice Management • Media & Communications Law • Barry University, Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law • Associate • Law Professor
Recent Posts from The Legal Satyricon
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Law Professor gets pwned by pornographer
Prof. Barry McDonald is one of many “First Amendment Professors” who don’t know a goddamned thing about the First Amendment. Not that Pepperdine is a bastion of intellectual prowess, but the fact that this ass…
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Stagliano Video
A representative of the group Bureaucrash wrote me and sent me a link to this video. I feel like uploading it to my iPod touch, strapping that to a brick, and throwing it through some…
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Indiana Explicit Materials Law Struck Down
An Indiana state law that required vendors of “explicit material” to register with the state and pay a $250 fee has been crushed in a resounding victory for free speech rights in the Hoosier State.…
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Goodbye Windows!
This is my first blog posting from my new Mac. I went over to Windows during law school, because you had to have special software to access Lexis and Westlaw, and they only made it…
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Miserable Failure? Check
Here is a chart of Bush’s historical approval ratings And, for the idiots who still think he’s doing a heckuva job.
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Hustler Store Challenges Ohio Sex Offender Registration Law
Last year, the Ohio legislature jumped into the fiesta of states trying to outdo each other passing stronger and stronger sex offender registration laws. Ohio’s Adam Walsh compliance act, Senate Bill 10 seems to have…
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Passing Unconstitutional Laws has a Price
GameSpy reports: The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced [on June 30] that the state of Minnesota paid $65,000 in attorney fees and expenses incurred as a result of their successful challenge to Minnesota’s unconstitutional video…
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Here I come to sue your Ass!
A small firm in Maryland, Man & Machine has been manufacturing the waterproof “Mighty Mouse” for a few years. Unfortunately, they seem to be one of those businesses that said “nah, we don’t need no…
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More tangential ruminations on D.C. v. Heller
As I dwelled on what D.C. V. Heller meant for First Amendment rights, it appears that William Patry was similarly ruminating on how D.C. v. Heller illustrates how the Court interprets Constitutional clauses. This being…
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Guest Blawger Sam Lea: The New Marketplace of Ideas Remains Open for Business
Blogging, an often controversial area of the “marketplace of ideas,” has just won a victory over an overzealous attorney, who improperly sought to silence one of his clients critics. In an Order handed down by…