The case poses the question of whether union collective bargaining involves the kind of expressive speech that employees should not have to support.  It’s long been the law (since the Abood case) that employees have a First Amendment right not to be compelled to support union political speech.  Collective bargaining is something different.  So the … Continue reading Public Unions, Product Labels, and the Abuse of First Amendment ‘Rights’…

The EU’s proposed new privacy law would codify and expand the Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) decision of 2014, Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González.  It would require some range of Internet platforms to remove content that allegedly infringes on the privacy rights of individuals.  This range of platforms definitely includes search engines, which already … Continue reading NYT Editorial Underestimates Risk to Freedom of Expression of Proposed New European Privacy Law…