By Any Means Necessary [Linda Greenhouse in the MNY Times, 8/20/14]: The Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — has endured so many near-death experiences that digging into the details of still another effort to demolish it is admittedly not an inviting prospect. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/opinion/linda-greenhouse-by-any-means-necessary.html?_r=0

When Do Doctors Have the Right to Speak? [NY Times, 8/20/14]: Do occupational-licensing laws trump the First Amendment? What limits, if any, does the First Amendment impose on government’s ability to restrict advice?

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/08/20/when-do-doctors-have-the-right-to-speak

After nearly 20 years of litigation, Ninth Circuit rejects Hare Krishna's First Amendment challenge to the Los Angeles International Airport's regulation banning the continuous or repetitive solicitation of funds. Read the case at:

http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/08/20/12-56621.pdf

Student Detained and Suspended Over a Dinosaur Story: A Constitutional Breach? [Ed Law Profs blog, 8/21/14]: The determinative facts are hard to confirm at this point, but based on news accounts, a student in Summerville, SC made a series of fictional story posts on Facebook as part of a class assignment just before the school year started.  His fictional story was about killing a pet dinosaur and buying a gun to do it.  

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/education_law/2014/08/student-detained-and-suspended-over-a-dinosaur-story-a-constitutional-breach.html