First Amendment Clinic News And Events

Joint Motion for Special Assignment Granted The Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic at Vanderbilt Law School was successful in their motion on behalf of their client, Alexa Renehan, a records requester in Montgomery County, Maryland. In a motion filed jointly with the Maryland Coalition for Justice and Police Accountability,… Read More

The Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic has signed on to an amicus brief in the case, which is pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Read More

Joint Motion for Special Assignment Granted The Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic at Vanderbilt Law School was successful in their motion on behalf of their client, Alexa Renehan, a records requester in Montgomery County, Maryland. In a motion filed jointly with the Maryland Coalition for Justice and Police Accountability,… Read More

Joint Motion for Special Assignment Granted The Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic at Vanderbilt Law School was successful in their motion on behalf of their client, Alexa Renehan, a records requester in Montgomery County, Maryland. In a motion filed jointly with the Maryland Coalition for Justice and Police Accountability,… Read More

Students in the clinic, directed by Gautam Hans, worked with Daniel Horwitz ’13 to defend a nonprofit group’s satirical mailer criticizing a Tennessee state representative. Read More

Clinic students served as co-counsel in Human Rights Defense Center v. Marshall County, Tennessee, which claimed that the county sheriff’s department engaged in unconstitutional censorship. Read More

Supreme Court case addresses the right of citizens to freely access official statutory codes as a means of ensuring effective participation in democratic self-government. Read More

Funded through a grant from The Stanton Foundation, the clinic will give students opportunities to development and use legal strategies while working on cases addressing First Amendment rights. Read More