A woman's case against the defendants who arranged the prosecution (a police department captain, who was her ex-husband and the target of her speech, and his friend who was a police investigator) can go forward.
The head of Ideas Beyond Borders is translating books by Steven Pinker, Sam Harris, and others into Arabic and distributing them for free.
When she did post such a photo, she was arrested and prosecuted -- a remarkable case from two years ago, which I just learned about.
More on their unconstitutionality.
The government may not discriminate against businesses because of the political views the business (or its spokesman) has expressed.
Inviting followers to harass this man violates the platform's terms of service.
The perils of poorly sourced stories
The Supreme Court's decision in Tinker is viewed as the high-water mark for students' First Amendment rights, but Justice Black's strident dissent-not the majority-spoke for most Americans at the time.
Online platforms will be subjected to a costly, easily-abused system that will likely pull down legal content.
"Solutions won't come from new laws from Washington, D.C., or from a speech police at the U.S. Department of Education."
How should we feel about conscience-based discrimination?
Bill also calls for holding forum moderators legally liable for extreme speech.
So a federal judge just held.
"Brett Kavanaugh said he would kill Roe v. Wade last week." Except he didn't.
So a Sixth Circuit panel just held, and it also concluded that the statements weren't actionable under Kentucky law.
The defendant, Imani Pennant, reportedly said that there's a web site that helps people create such orders.
Demands for government oversight hide opportunism amid rhetoric about safety.
Critiquing an ex-president's warnings about anti-media rhetoric, non-voting, and unelected bureaucrats
An interesting new Younger abstention case from the Ninth Circuit, arising in our challenge to Washington's very broad criminal harassment statute.
Conspiracy theorist banned for "abusive behavior."
The Department of Justice plans to look into whether social media platforms are "hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas."
Tom Cotton to Jack Dorsey: "Do you prefer to see America remain the world's dominant global superpower?"
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff explain how "good intentions and bad ideas" have made young people super-fragile-and how to make things better.
My Spanish blasphemy post reminded that I've been meaning to blog about the Indonesian decision, handed down last month.
"The Spanish Association of Christian Lawyers has announced that it is also planning to ask the judge to consider investigating Toledo for hate crimes after he said during a television interview that if people were shot for their religious beliefs and Catholic churches burned during the Spanish Civil War, it was because they 'must have done something."'
Before demanding censure or intervention, take a step back from the Twitter machine and ask yourself whether anyone really cares about this stuff.
A good example of a court properly protecting the public right of access to court records.
The rule would have banned, among other things, "harmful verbal ... conduct that manifests bias or prejudice towards others" "on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or socioeconomic status in conduct related to the practice of law," including "in bar association, business or social activities in connection with the practice of law."
Tracy Zona was ordered to "remove forthwith, all references to petitioner the family and legal representatives and make no further posting in re of any kind"; she was then ordered to spend five days in jail unless she removed the posts (which she did).
Referencing Shakespeare, the Bible, and American colonial times, a federal court rules in favor of a group's right to feed the homeless.
Threatened regulations on "fake news" would be an attack on press freedom
Cody Wilson's attorney talks guns, speech, and "Lochner-izing the First Amendment."
But would the First Amendment allow Congress to regulate search results?
That's how I read his item last week in TechCrunch, which warns Internet companies that this might happen if they "fail to understand one simple principle: that an individual endorsing (or denying) the extermination of millions of people, or attacking the victims of horrific crimes or the parents of murdered children, is far more indecent than an individual posting pornography."
Plus: "Sheriff Joe" Arpaio faces voters again, states go after sexual-assault NDAs, and Louisiana florists fight licensing exams.
Should we be concerned about a new system to keep track of real vs. fake news?
Prof. James Livingston (white himself) said he "hate[s] white people" -- but Rutgers' reasoning would equally punish professors who express a wide range of views that offend people with a particular religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and the like.
The NRA accuses N.Y. government officials of unconstitutionally pressuring financial services companies into not dealing with the NRA -- an ACLU friend-of-the-court brief says, "If true, those allegations represent a blatant violation of the First Amendment."
The insults were in e-mails sent to the Turkish embassy.
Far from undermining freedom of the press, the president's fulminations prove its durability.
The court stressed that the song threated particular police officers by name.
An Oklahoma case involving an employee's allegations of food plant contamination-litigated under seal.
An inside look at how indie media veterans James Larkin and Michael Lacey became the targets of a federal witchhunt.
Words of wisdom from Rhode Island Judge Richard Licht.
It's not the first time Apple has bowed to China's censorship demands.
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