The Latest Breaking News from Stanley Marcus

Welcome to the Friday, September 8 Brew. 

A three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama ruled on Sept. 5 that the revised congressional district boundaries that the Alabama legislature enacted on July 21, 2023, were not in accordance with the Voting Rights Act. The state adopted the revised congressional map…

Plus: A court rejects a "discriminatory harassment" ban at a Florida university, a private space mission heads back to earth, and more...

More from today's Eleventh Circuit decision in Speech First, Inc. v. Cartwright (written by Judge Kevin Newsom and joined by Judge Stanley Marcus and District Judge Richard Story); seems quite right to me: The bias-related-incidents policy creates a mechanism by which a UCF student can be anonymously accused of an…

From Eleventh Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus's concurrence in Speech First, Inc. v. Cartwright: I join fully in Judge Newsom's opinion for this Court. The University of Central Florida's discriminatory-harassment policy almost surely violates the First Amendment. It is grievously overbroad, and it is a content- and viewpoint-based restraint on free…

An excerpt from today's Eleventh Circuit decision in Speech First, Inc. v. Cartwright (written by Judge Kevin Newsom and joined by Judge Stanley Marcus and District Judge Richard Story), which generally strikes me as quite right: [In] determining the propriety of preliminary injunctive relief[, we consider, among other things, whether…