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    Silencing the Departed: Limits on Non-Disparagement Clauses in Employment and Severance Contracts in Florida

    October 22, 2025By Stephanie Gudiel

    Non-disparagement clauses in employment agreements and severance packages have become common. When an employee departs, particularly involuntarily, an employer often offers a severance package contingent on signing a release of claims and a promise not to make negative statements about the company.[i] These clauses are marketed as a way to protect an organization’s reputation. However, […]

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    Free Speech or Targeted Harassment? Reassessing Campus Protections in the Wake of Rising Antisemitism

    October 1, 2025By Zachary Schindler

    On July 29, 2025, a federal court approved a 6.13 million dollar settlement after video footage and student testimony confirmed that protestors had cordoned off auditorium entrances during a demonstration, creating a self-labeled “Jew Exclusion Zone” at the University of California Los Angeles (“UCLA”).[i]  Jewish students and faculty reported being verbally harassed, blocked from accessing […]

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    Pretty Dangerous: Commercial Speech, Beauty Product Advertising, and the First Amendment

    September 26, 2025By Jordan Basit

    The modern beauty industry occupies a curious position at the intersection of constitutional law, consumer protection, and gendered health risks. Advertising for cosmetics, whether glossy television spots or viral TikTok endorsements, enjoys robust protection under the First Amendment as commercial speech. Yet this protection often shields marketing for products later revealed to contain toxic ingredients […]

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    Fact-Check-Be-Gone: The Disabling of Facebook’s Fact-Checking Program, A Step in the Right Direction?

    March 26, 2025By Donovan Smith

    On January 7, 2025, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (“Zuckerberg”) announced the discontinuation of the company’s fact-checking program on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. Meta will now rely on its 3.2 billion daily users to identify and correct inaccurate or false posts.[i] This system is similar to the one used by […]

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