Part I
The year 2015 will likely be a stand-out year for new developments in First Amendment law. The end of this year has seen free speech at the top of the news on a near-daily basis. Protests of police department practices, sparked by events in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City, swept the country
Last month, the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency overseeing private sector labor relations, issued its much anticipated decision in Karl Knauz Motors, Inc dba Knauz BMW and Robert Becker (“Knauz BMW”). The Board held that the BMW dealership’s “courtesy” rule, which among other things prohibited employees from making remarks that were