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		<title>Government Speech and Justice Souter (1)</title>
		<link>http://nahmodlaw.com/2010/08/27/justice-souter-on-government-speech-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Is Government Speech? Simply put, when government itself speaks, rather than regulating the speech of private persons, its speech is immunized from any meaningful First Amendment scrutiny, including the prohibition against engaging in viewpoint discrimination. Under the doctrine, government becomes a “market participant” in the marketplace of ideas rather than a regulator of that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nahmodlaw.com&blog=8604426&post=669&subd=nahmodlaw&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gun Control, the Second Amendment and Section 1983 After McDonald v. Chicago</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction From a section 1983 perspective, here are some things to look for in the aftermath of the Supreme Court&#8217;s recent decision in McDonald v. Chicago, 130 S. Ct. &#8212; (2010). The Second Amendment and Section 1983 McDonald held that the Second Amendment right of a person to possess a gun in his home for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nahmodlaw.com&blog=8604426&post=650&subd=nahmodlaw&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-SLAPP Statutes and Section 1983</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>snahmod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Questions What is a SLAPP lawsuit? What is an anti-SLAPP statute? And what, if anything, does section 1983 have to do with anti-SLAPP statutes? Some Answers 1.  A SLAPP (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation) lawsuit is one that is filed to chill the exercise of a defendant’s First Amendment rights in order “to obtain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nahmodlaw.com&blog=8604426&post=631&subd=nahmodlaw&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All My Posts</title>
		<link>http://nahmodlaw.com/2010/07/07/all-my-posts-by-category/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Nahmodlaw.com began in August 2009, I have written thirty-four posts (including a video and podcast) on what I consider to be topics of interest and importance going beyond what might be considered &#8220;hot&#8221; at any particular time. It occurs to me that it would be useful to readers, especially those who have only recently [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nahmodlaw.com&blog=8604426&post=608&subd=nahmodlaw&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Certiorari Granted in Skinner v. Switzer: Section 1983, Habeas and Heck</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Case The Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Skinner v. Switzer,  2010 WL 338018 (Fifth Cir. 2010), cert granted, 130 S. Ct – (May 24, 2010), to deal with the following Question Presented: May a convicted prisoner seeking access to biological evidence for DNA testing assert that claim in a civil rights action under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nahmodlaw.com&blog=8604426&post=591&subd=nahmodlaw&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Purdue v. Kenny A.: A New Supreme Court Attorney&#8217;s Fees Decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction The Civil Rights Attorney&#8217;s Fees Awards Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. § 1988, provides that prevailing plaintiffs  in § 1983 and other civil rights cases (excluding prisoners who are separately covered by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995) are ordinarily entitled to a reasonable attorney&#8217;s fee unless special circumstances render such an award [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nahmodlaw.com&blog=8604426&post=571&subd=nahmodlaw&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Laptops in My Classroom: Part One</title>
		<link>http://nahmodlaw.com/2010/05/22/no-laptops-in-my-classroom-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 13:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The First Signs I noticed it first about five years ago. Students began asking me in class to repeat what I had just said. This was happening more and more often, so I began to think about its significance, especially for the kind of discussion, or modified Socratic, method I use to teach constitutional law, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nahmodlaw.com&blog=8604426&post=554&subd=nahmodlaw&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Section 1983 Podcast: Damages and Procedural Defenses</title>
		<link>http://nahmodlaw.com/2010/05/07/a-section-1983-podcast-damages-and-procedural-defenses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 18:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction My law school, Chicago-Kent, and I just wrapped up our 27th annual conference on section 1983 held on April 15-16, 2010. This conference lasted two days and featured nationally known scholars and attorneys addressing different aspects of section 1983 litigation. Over 160 attorneys from all over the country were in attendance and, thanks to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nahmodlaw.com&blog=8604426&post=527&subd=nahmodlaw&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Section 1983 Primer (4): Causation and the Mt. Healthy Burden-Shift Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction As in ordinary tort law, a person who is sued under section 1983 for damages must be shown to be responsible in order to held liable. In other words, that person must have caused the plaintiff&#8217;s constitutional deprivation. But in certain section 1983 cases involving impermissible motivation, such as public employee equal protection and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nahmodlaw.com&blog=8604426&post=514&subd=nahmodlaw&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Stevens and Section 1983</title>
		<link>http://nahmodlaw.com/2010/04/12/justice-stevens-and-section-1983/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction By now, all of us know that Justice Stevens has announced that he will step down immediately after the last day of the 2009 Term (in late June or early July 2010). In this post, I want to call attention to Justice Stevens&#8217;s unheralded position advocating respondeat superior liability for section 1983 local government [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nahmodlaw.com&blog=8604426&post=502&subd=nahmodlaw&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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