A brewing First Amendment controversy, triggered by newspaper's publishing information about a plea agreement in the policeman's prosecution -- the agreement was intended to be sealed, but was inadvertently briefly released unsealed on the docket.
When you give law enforcement a tool that can be used to target someone who has unpopular views, they will use it.
When alt-right activists adopted this amphibian as their own, were they stealing a cartoonist's property or exercising free speech?
So report Czech media.
"I get a lot of death threats, I don't even think I notice them anymore."
The American Library Association is facing criticism for reaffirming First Amendment rights.
"This display has generated public safety concerns for our campus community."
Justice Kennedy was the most speech-protective justice on a speech-protective court. What happens to free speech once he is replaced?
Federal and state courts are divided on whether such injunctions are constitutional, and the U.S. Supreme Court has not weighed in.
"Carter's words encouraging Roy's suicide, however distasteful to this Court, were protected speech."
Donald De La Haye says the University of Central Florida violated his First Amendment rights.
We headed to the Venice Beach boardwalk to test the bullshit detectors of passersby.
Second Amendment superlawyer Alan Gura doesn't think the settlement means the Trump administration are across-the-board gun rights defenders.
Where does Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stand on the First Amendment?
Egypt has no freedom of speech.
Prosecutors in southern Utah have argued that they can prove that the closing of a corral gate was the crime of attempted wanton destruction of livestock by pointing to a defendant's membership in a conservation organization. Today I argue to the Utah Court of Appeals that it should review the First Amendment implications of the prosecutors' maneuver.
Marquette is ordered to reinstate John McAdams.
Facebook apologizes to Zion's Joy! after treating a music video like a campaign ad.
So holds this morning's important Wisconsin Supreme Court decision, by a 4-2 vote.
Lawmakers resist plan that would likely lead to widespread censorship of online media sharing.
Deb Mashek explains why intellectual diversity can't be optional if we're serious about higher education.
Contrary to what his critics say, this "narrow-minded elitist" stands up for the little guy.
Trump extends Obama's war on leakers, jeopardizing a free press.
What we should celebrate on Independence Day.
The California Supreme Court rules that Yelp cannot be forced to remove negative reviews of a business.
A woman screamed "fuck you" and "fuck you, asshole," at the white nationalist, in addition to calling him a "murderer" and a "crybaby."
"This is not what the hate crime statute was for. This is criminalizing pure speech, and that violates the First Amendment."
The question that the Court didn't resolve in Lozman v. Riviera-Beach is back, in another case on which the Supreme Court just granted review.
"If an employee's speech is about, in, and directed to the workplace, she has no 'possibility of a First Amendment claim,'" say the dissenters -- but that's not what the First Amendment caselaw says.
"The majority's view, if taken literally, could radically change prior law," warn the Court's liberal justices.
States that want to allow public sector unions, and avoid "free-rider" problems, should still be able to do that -- just by paying unions directly, rather than via compelled agency fees.
A poorly written proposal to expand copyright claims could potentially decimate online sharing of information.
Today's Supreme Court decision adds to the law -- and the uncertainty -- about when the First Amendment bans the government from requiring speech.
President David Cole says guidelines "are explicitly designed to help affiliates and national staff think through various factors in case selection decisions."
David Cole and Nadine Strossen had responded to Kaminer's op-ed on this; Kaminer responds in turn.
Washington State told to revisit ruling against Arlene's Flowers.
Is the ACLU becoming less committed to protecting free speech, especially speech that some view as "imped[ing] progress toward equality"?
"Our defense of speech may have a greater or lesser harmful impact on the equality and justice work to which we are also committed."
Matt Kibbe explains why "beer is freedom," and talks about his new documentary series with Rep. Thomas Massie, Off the Grid.
It all began with a jurisdictional dispute over an Egyptian divorce proceeding and a New York divorce proceeding.
Frivolous defamation lawsuits undermine the First Amendment.
Very narrow decisions -- or decisions not to decide -- in some more of the Supreme Court's most watched cases.
Clinch seeks "an apology," "an undertaking from you not to post anti-trans or vilifying posts in future, and to remove those that are currently on your public Facebook profile," "a further undertaking from you to remove any anti trans and vilifying posts made by other people from your public profile," and "for you to participate in training about vilification, and trans' issues."
A big win for First Amendment advocates in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky.
But a more precise ban on clothing in polling places (which the Court treats as "nonpublic fora") that mentions candidates, parties, or ballot measures may be constitutional.
Federal Judge Raymond Moore applies strict scrutiny to a system with the power to restrict political speech and finds it unreasonable to outsource that power to anyone and everyone.
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