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Dec 16, 2022

What college sells the most beer at home football games? My media law class found out.

Each semester, I require students in my media law & ethics course at TCU to file public records requests under state freedom of information laws. …

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What college sells the most beer at home football games? My media law class found out.
What college sells the most beer at home football games? My media law class found out.

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Nov 9, 2022

Breaking Bird Brain

Tuesday was my first election since 2008 without Twitter on the brain. It was, all in all, a pleasant experience. Mind you, I can’t pretend to be pleased with the results. I live in Texas, after all, so there wasn’t a single candidate I voted for who won, either locally…

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Breaking Bird Brain
Breaking Bird Brain

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May 24, 2021

Say No to Forced Patriotism: SB4’s unconstitutional effort to mandate the National Anthem at sporting events in Texas

This column, which I wrote with Dr. Amy Kristin Sanders from the University of Texas, originally ran in the Houston Chronicle on April 12, 2021. Now that the Texas Legislature will likely take up the bill for a vote this week, I’m posting it here on Medium. Before the 2023…

First Amendment

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Say No to Forced Patriotism: SB4’s unconstitutional effort to mandate the National Anthem at…
Say No to Forced Patriotism: SB4’s unconstitutional effort to mandate the National Anthem at…
First Amendment

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·May 20, 2021

Beware the Copyleft Trolls

When photographers sue after Creative Commons Licenses go awry. — The scam works a little like this: A photographer posts their work online under an outdated Creative Commons license, such as version 2.0, that does not give licensees the right to fix license problems within 30 days of notice, as do the current CC 4.0 licenses. The photographers lurk until…

Copyright

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Beware the Copyleft Trolls
Beware the Copyleft Trolls
Copyright

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Jan 12, 2021

FEC reports show overwhelming Trump support by TCU trustees

As we wonder why the TCU Board of Trustees continues to include Rep. Roger Williams — a Texas Republican who has been pushing conspiracy theories about election fraud that emboldened right-wing insurrectionists last week, and then voted twice to overturn the election hours after their siege of the Capitol building…

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FEC reports show overwhelming Trump support by TCU trustees
FEC reports show overwhelming Trump support by TCU trustees

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Jul 11, 2020

Parents demanding a tuition discount, think about who gets hurt if that happens

Among parents sending their kids to college this fall — and I’m one of them — I’m seeing a pretty common complaint on the parent Facebook groups and chats and the like. …

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Parents, if you’re demanding a tuition discount this fall?
Parents, if you’re demanding a tuition discount this fall?

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Jun 13, 2020

TCU was shamed into rejecting $5.7 million in CARES Act funding because we were “rich.” That was a mistake that should be fixed.

At a virtual town hall meeting this week, TCU Chancellor Victor Boschini addressed several questions submitted from faculty and staff, nearly 900 of whom attended the session. …

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TCU rejected $5.7 million in CARES Act funding
TCU rejected $5.7 million in CARES Act funding

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Oct 11, 2019

Is the Texas terroristic threat statute so broad it violates the First Amendment?

At the Texas legislative hearing on Mass Violence Prevention & Public Safety on Thursday, Rep. Joseph Moody of El Paso asked me whether Texas Penal Code §22.07, particularly part (a)(5), had been found to be overbroad or otherwise invalidated by courts on First Amendment grounds. I told him I wasn’t…

First Amendment

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First Amendment

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Oct 11, 2019

Prepared remarks for the Mass Violence Prevention and Public Safety hearing

Today, I spoke to a panel of legislators from the Texas House of Representatives at Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch. I was on the second session, which included Dr. Richard Pineda from the University of Texas at El Paso, and Dr. Jared Schroeder, a journalism professor at SMU. We had…

Privacy

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Privacy

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Sep 30, 2019

Media Law Through Science Fiction: Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech?

Several years ago, I was invited to submit to a research paper competition about the next 20 years of communication law. But I thought, why stop at 20? Why not think about the law 50 years from now, or 100, or 1,000? …

Science Fiction

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Media Law Through Science Fiction: Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech?
Media Law Through Science Fiction: Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech?
Science Fiction

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