If you want to stay out of federal court when suing someone from another state, ask for $75,000 or less at the outset -- as Eric Wedgewood / Heiko Julien, the creator of the Content Zone meme pages, has learned.
Four myths about the law that made the modern internet possible.
Going beyond criticism, the resolution would punish the NRA and its supporters by cutting off contractors with ties to the group.
"Approximately 2½ minutes after Ms. Oransky's group began chanting ... a representative of the Community Center announced that the facility was closing and that everyone had the leave the building. Ms. Oransky took credit for that announcement immediately telling a videographer 'we closed it down!'"
Western Illinois University clamps down on student speech.
Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys? Who knows? Do something!
The Supreme Court has said the First Amendment protects government contractors against termination based on their political views.
Right-wing cancel culture comes for Jamie Riley, who dared to criticize the American flag.
Nobody is being "confused" by vegetarian meat substitutes.
... or refer to all students without a title (e.g., by first name or by last name) and not use third-person pronouns to refer to them.
Episode 6 of Free Speech Rules, from UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
Conservatives who argue that the video platform is constrained by the First Amendment are forsaking their constitutional principles.
“There’s some merit in some of the criticisms of things that I’ve gotten wrong,” admits the former Quillette reporter.
It flies in the face of precedent.
An economist and a science fiction author discuss cryogenics, mythology, philanthropy, fragmentation, and simulation.
"... , especially where, as here, the party who filed the suit alleges harm from the public availability of the record."
"Hong Kong is a place without basic political and economic freedom," Wong tells Reason.
The state attempted to recall the vanity plate on the grounds that it referenced "excretory acts or functions."
The same First Amendment principles that apply to the president also apply to the congresswoman.
That's what a California bill (passed 76-0 by Assembly and 6-0 and 5-2 by Senate committees) would ask film tax credit seekers to provide in their tax credit application.
Authorities questioned Ismael Ajjawi for eight hours at Logan Airport. Then they revoked his student visa.
"If the Court sealed the disputed materials, it would essentially conceal the very mechanism that REA used to perpetuate the scheme, leaving the public with little more than the judgment itself to establish the existence of the scheme."
California public accommodations law has been read as banning discrimination based on "political affiliation," but the court concluded that this didn't apply to discrimination based on "political views" more broadly (or based on votes as an elected official).
... though the defendant's other crimes likely affected the sentence.
The New York Times columnist emailed a professor to complain about a mean tweet—and cc'ed the provost.
The comedian's new Netflix special deftly skewers woke scolds.
That material: Photoshopped pictures of PM Narendra Modi "embracing his right-hand man Rajnath Singh on an idyllic beach."
The unsurprising result of conservatives complaining about Big Tech bias: less speech, not more
Sealed memos fought over in federal court last week show authorities have known for years that claims about Backpage were bogus.
By punishing Jeff Klinzman, Kirkwood Community College has dealt a blow to free speech.
But at least he wasn't labeled a "copyright orc" ....
The mysterious "hybrid rights" doctrine comes up again—but might not matter.
"Joke or not, these types of comments are felonies under the law," says the Volusia County Sheriff's Office
"Eugene Volokh told the police he refuses to leave me alone."
... if you're asserting your own rights of access (which all of us have) to court records.
The move would violate the First Amendment.
... by a federal district court decision yesterday, in a case brought by a pro se litigant in New Jersey.
The FBI is looking for companies to comb through social media posts and pinpoint possible threats ahead of time. Think of it like a meme-illiterate Facebook-stalking precog from Minority Report.
The Democratic presidential contender suggests that "racist threats or anti-immigrant manifestos" could justify federal gun confiscation orders.
That's so regardless of whether the statement is seen as a true threat or incitement—and it applies to any "harmful" speech "inten[ded] to retaliate" against anyone giving law enforcement "any truthful information" related to a federal crime.
The ads are the first to be banned since the new law went into effect in June.
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