Claim That Someone Is "Racist" or "White Supremacist" Is Opinion and Thus Not Libel, Though …
claims that someone has engaged in specific conduct may be factual assertions and therefore potentially libelous.
claims that someone has engaged in specific conduct may be factual assertions and therefore potentially libelous.
Law students: Take that Choice of Law (often called Conflicts of Laws) course your law school offers; it can be tremendously important.
The Democratic nominee has favored policing online speech. Would a future Harris administration defend free expression?
The chaplain's post "discuss[ed] 'how God designed each person as male or female, and that sex is immutable'" and "stated it is unfair to allow males to compete in women's sports."
The mandate required platforms to, among other things, report to the state "how the terms of service define and address (a) hate speech or racism; (b) extremism or radicalization; (c) disinformation or misinformation; (d) harassment; and (e) foreign political interference, as well as statistics on content that was flagged by the social media company as belonging to any of the categories."
"The Community Guidelines' prohibitions of, inter alia, 'homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, racism, or any other forms of oppressive beliefs or behaviors,' 'name-calling,' and 'disrespect' are prohibitions against ideas that offend, and therefore discriminate on the basis of viewpoint in violation of the First Amendment."
Rebekah Massie criticized a proposed pay raise for a city attorney. When she refused to stop, citing her First Amendment rights, the mayor had her arrested.
One of the functions of the First Amendment is to create a kind of arms control agreement: With respect to censorship, all sides agree to lay down their arms.
Last week’s sedition conviction is yet another step backward for press freedom.
Officials pursue an anti-liberty agenda through unofficial pressure and foreign regulators.
Priscilla Villarreal, known as "Lagordiloca," is suing law enforcement for violating her First Amendment rights. She is appealing to the Supreme Court.
For free speech on campus, Brandeis and Holmes should guide colleges and universities.
The award consisted of $1.5M compensatory damages and $350K punitives.
Conforming speech policies to the First Amendment would serve private universities well, legally and otherwise.
A dissenting subgroup of the Libertarian Party of Michigan was barred from "from identifying as the Libertarian Party of Michigan in the provision of services."
"[M]uch of [the Oregon State Bar statement's] criticism of then-President Trump did not relate to the justice system at all—for instance, it criticized Trump for describing Haiti and African countries as 'shithole countries.'"
"[T]he district court’s Rule 50 ruling improperly intruded on the province of the jury by making credibility determinations, weighing evidence, and ignoring facts or inferences that a reasonable juror could plausibly have found to support Palin’s case."
Governments around the world seek to suppress ideas and control communications channels.
The Telegram co-founder may become a free-expression martyr for the terrible crime of enabling permissionless speech.
So the District Court in Sen. Mastriano's case just held.
French police arrested Telegram founder Pavel Durov for failing to control his social media and messaging app.
But her national origin discrimination claim (apart from the sex discrimination component) is rejected, as is her defamation claim.
Nativity scene was allegedly excluded (ostensibly on COVID grounds) while a menorah lighting was allowed.
That’s the Fruits of Their Labor Clause of the North Carolina Constitution.
"While this case involves a statutory conferral of anonymity, the legislature is not exempt from the Constitution."
The amicus briefs come from several organizations and people, some liberal (e.g., the ACLU), some conservative, and some apolitical.
Susan Hogarth posted a photo of her primary ballot. In North Carolina, that's against the law.
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