Yes, said San Antonio police officers, arguing that a bar's license shouldn't be renewed -- "those remarks show what kind of people Bottom Bracket's owners really are and that they should not be allowed to operate a bar."
But there's no "hate speech" exception to the First Amendment.
The government's theory would equally criminalize insulting posts on a NRA page, or on a pro-Trump organization's page, or on a Communist Party page.
Two recent stories in the news, plus a third item about Malaysia.
A separate holding from today's Klein v. BOLI (Sweetcakes by Melissa case), from the Oregon Court of Appeals.
The Oregon Court of Appeals upholds a $135,000 damages award imposed on Sweetcakes by Melissa for its owners' refusal to make a cake for a same-sex wedding.
A woman is injured in a car accident supposedly because of bad roadway design decision (a dangerous cut in the median) -- so she sues business that had lobbied county to make that decision.
Free speech is increasingly triggering.
Jia Yueting got an injunction from a Washington state court, forbidding critic Gu Yingqiong from "publish[ing] any posts or [online] commentary concerning" Jia.
So held a federal court in New Jersey yesterday (GJJM Enterprises, Inc. v. City of Atlantic City).
Bruce Perens' claimed that Open Source Security's license violates the GPL open-source license agreement; that's protected opinion, the court said.
A Federal district court grants a preliminary injunction in V.A. v. San Pasqual Valley Unified School District.
The Justice Department's attempt to prosecute six anti-Trump protesters falls flat on its face, but it says more trials will follow.
The New Jersey Supreme Court narrowly construes a ban on annoying conduct to avoid First Amendment problems.
Seems inconsistent with a 1995 Supreme Court precedent, but the D.C. federal court allowed this, and the D.C. Circuit seems to agree.
Obvious propaganda should be labeled propaganda, obviously.
It turns out the Supreme Court has dealt with the question, in Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville (1975).
A sound decision Monday from a federal district court in Michigan.
No, says the New Jersey Supreme Court in an opinion that sharply limits the state criminal harassment statute.
Sharing arrest and accident info on Facebook before cops can tell "official" media is not OK, say Laredo police-and nevermind that one of their own was the source.
Will colleges sanction every educator with a provocative opinion?
So says the Hawaii Supreme Court.
So a Federal Circuit panel held today, answering a question that the Supreme Court's Slants case left open.
As people worry about the net neutrality vote, public officials threaten our rights to free speech.
The bill would gut Section 230 and make sex advertising a federal crime.
A related measure would open digital platforms to liability for past crimes committed by users.
Also on the Reason Podcast: Is abortion a good reason to vote for Roy Moore? Did Al Franken get a raw deal? Can the feds smother bitcoin?
In 2017, the left eats its own and the right shows its true colors.
Feed yourself in a public park. Feed the pigeons and the squirrels there, too. Whatever you do, though, don't share your food with a hungry person.
DOJ argues workers are being forced to subsidize political positions with which they may disagree.
The Oregon engineering board fined Mats Järlström for exercising his First Amendment rights. Now, finally, it admits it's not allowed to do that.
An appeals court defends anonymous speech.
An investigation would've taken months, so Larksville Police decided to skip that part.
This is a clear-cut case of unconstitutional compelled speech with an easy verdict.
"Bikinis can convey the very type of political speech that lies at the core of the First Amendment," writes federal judge.
Public accommodation laws clash with freedom of religion and compelled speech.
A legal fight involving the alt-right, Trump voters, one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful law firms, and the website 4chan is brewing.
"No pony has ever attacked an American politician," the lawsuit notes.
The point seems to elude The New York Times.
He did make the mistake of having his picture taken with Milo Yiannopoulos.
Joseph Stiglitz is the George Costanza of economists: Every instinct he has, do the opposite.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown argues in The New York Times that we can thank "feminism, but also free markets" for the ongoing purge of predatory men.
What do the Catholic Church, the ACLU, PETA, and Milo Yiannopoulos have in common? None of them can buy ads on the D.C. subway.
"It's dangerous to say that a topic is off the table just because it might be a little bit controversial," says the Wilfrid Laurier University student.
General counsel for the university system tries to slip in long-condemned policy.
In a Fifth Column interview, FCC chair announces the beginning of the end of Title II regulatory classification of Internet companies, frets about the culture of free speech, and calls social-media regulation "a dangerous road to cross."
The government is regularly excluded when we use the word "violence."
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