HUNTINGTON -- The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and Marshall University are hosting a panel discussion on “Blogging and the Potential Limits of the First Amendment.”

The discussion will begin at 2 p.m. Sept. 22 in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center on the campus of Marshall University in Huntington.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Brent Benjamin will moderate the panel. He said the forum will focus on an issue which is both timely and important.

“As more and more Americans engage in online blogging, questions arise as to how and when the First Amendment should apply,” he said. “An outstanding panel has been put together to discuss and explore these issues. I believe this forum promises to be informative.”

Panelists are expected to include Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington, D.C.; Gene Policinski, vice president and executive director of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University; Howard J. Bashman, an appellate attorney in suburban Philadelphia who has a blog; Kevin Qualls, an attorney who is on the faculty at Murray State University in Kentucky; and Marshall University Journalism Dean Corley Dennison.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in several cases at Marshall at 10 a.m. the same day in the same location.

The public is invited to attend the panel discussion and attorneys who attend will qualify for 1.8 MCLE.