James Benjamin is a Past President of the First Amendment Lawyers’ Association. Daniel Aaronson is the current Vice-President and in July will become President of that esteemed organization. Yet, for both of us the First Amendment is not necessarily absolute,…
First Amendment Lawyers Association 2012
From February 15th through the 18th James S. Benjamin and Daniel Aaronson were in San Diego, California attending the February meeting of the First Amendment Lawyers’ Association. Daniel Aaronson is currently the Vice-President of this organization which now has close…
School First Amendment, we still have a lot to learn
When we were all growing up, at least those of our generation, we had complaints about our teachers, our principals and our schools. Sometimes we would tell them to our friends when speaking in a group, sometimes over the phone,…
Political First Amendment. Put your money where your mouth is.
We hope all of you had a great holiday season and that 2012 brings you and your loved ones a good year. It almost seems like the world is put on hold from Thanksgiving through January 1st and in some…
Docs v. Glocks NRA shoots to kill Doctor’s First Amendment rights
There are many and various different lobbying groups, both on State and Federal levels. As powerful as any of these lobbying groups are the NRA, the National Rifle Association, and the AMA, the American Medical Association. They yield power in…
College football players’ value
The beauty of writing an article such as this is that no one ever tells us what to write or how to write it. No parameters have ever been put on topics or points of view. It is in this…
FALA First Amendment Lawyers’ Association meeting
Last month the First Amendment Lawyers’ Association (FALA) held its summer meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Expecting the cooler temperatures that the State usually has to offer, we were incredibly surprised by the high 90’s temperatures that we arrived to. It…
Sex Sells but does it harm as well
We don’t know how many times that we have started or ended one of our articles with the phrase “Sex Sells”. Last month’s article dealt with Osama bin Laden having pornographic movies in his hideout in Pakistan and again we…
Osama Bin Laden bin looking at porn
After almost ten years of searching for Osama bin Laden, our intelligence agencies located him in a Abbottabad, Pakistan. In a more than heroic mission, the United States Navy Seals and other special operations military men conducted a nearly flawless…
FL-SEA adult entertainment swim with us or drown
On Monday, March 21, 2011, the law offices of Benjamin & Aaronson, P.A. hosted a meeting of FL-SEA. For those of you who do not know what FL-SEA is about or stands for, it is for lack of a better…