A Texas Reporter Busted for Asking Questions Asks SCOTUS To Reject the Criminalization of Journalism
Priscilla Villarreal is appealing a 5th Circuit decision that dismissed her First Amendment lawsuit against Laredo police and prosecutors.
Priscilla Villarreal is appealing a 5th Circuit decision that dismissed her First Amendment lawsuit against Laredo police and prosecutors.
The bill also attempts to ban drag performances at public libraries.
A newly-obtained intelligence memo shows that the feds took a keen interest in Trump-era campus speech controversies.
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Instead of trusting parents to manage their families, lawmakers from both parties prefer to empower the Nanny State.
Local hostility to free speech may become a global problem.
In March, Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order demanding that colleges crack down on antisemitic speech.
The court found insufficient evidence to sustain 53 of 84 remaining counts against Lacey.
The American Sunlight Project contends that researchers are being silenced by their critics.
The News2Share cofounder is revolutionizing news coverage.
Plus: A listener asks the editors to steel man the case for the Jones Act, an antiquated law that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters.
From NBC, what strikes me as a misleading characterization of Professor Catherine Fisk's confronting a student who pulled out a microphone to orate at a dinner organized at the professor's (and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's) house.
Such a removal by the city from city property wouldn't violate the First Amendment, but that doesn't preclude claims that the removal violated other legal rules.
Banning companies for doing business with China is a bad path to start down.
The university has a history of suppressing speech from both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The long-time public radio editor's resignation proves he was right all along.
"Profound irreparable harm flows from the Act's chilling of adults' access to protected sexual expression," the filing reads.
A couple of circuit court decisions noted that the intervenors had to have a concrete plan to write about the records; the court here makes clear that such a plan indeed suffices for standing.
Under a legal theory endorsed by the 5th Circuit, Martin Luther King Jr. could have been liable for other people’s violence.
It's a good thing opponents of the move can appeal to the liberal values of free speech, free association, and equal treatment under law.
"Dr. Morrison brought this lawsuit. He chose to challenge the accuracy of these statements in a public courtroom. If disclosing the allegedly-defamatory statements invades his privacy or causes him injury, it is solely the result of his own actions and decisions."
based on state sealing law. The lawsuit is against a current Vermont legislator, and alleges the defendant had aided and abetted the sexual assault of the then-16-to-17-year-old plaintiff in 1968-70.
One viewer said it should be illegal to take the Lord's name in vain on TV—and that was one of the more coherent complaints.
U.S. need for Australia’s cooperation in the Pacific may win the journalist’s release.
"She prioritizes highlighting the intersectionality that comes with the environmental justice movement to achieve collective liberation for all oppressed communities. In her spare time, she enjoys holding elected officials accountable, watching endless amounts of movies, television series and sports, and enjoying time outdoors with her family and friends."
Fight back through better information and discourse, not by empowering the government.
whether at administrators' homes or in law school classrooms.
Kentucky's governor signed a law last week that could require porn sites to ask for users' government IDs before allowing access to adult material.
And they're still trying to censor speech on social media.