Journal of Free Speech Law: "Thinking the Unthinkable about the First Amendment," by Nicholas Lemann
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
Jane and I discuss calls to restrict misinformation, from the Sedition Act of 1798 to Hurricane Helene.
The former president's authoritarian tendencies are alarming enough without inventing new outrages.
Due to North Carolina's lack of an anti-SLAPP law, the defendants will have to defend themselves in court.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
against the online critic who first posted the allegations, but not against CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations), which echoed them.
For more than three decades, the Institute for Justice has shown that economic freedom and private property are essential safeguards for ordinary Americans.
Priscilla Villarreal's case is about whether certain reporters have more robust free speech rights than others.
Plaintiff had argued that defendants' publicizing the religious court's statement "serves as a form of social pressure, calling on the community to shun or ostracize the individual until they comply with the court's demands."
The good news is that schools won't be forced to stock Trump-endorsed Bibles. The bad news is that they're still being forced to supply Bibles.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
We'll give you an answer within 14 days, and we can publish them within several weeks, if you'd like.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
Mason Murphy says Officer Michael Schmitt violated his rights by punishing him for constitutionally protected speech.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
At its core, the oft-denigrated decision revolved around whether the government can censor information leading up to an election.
South Carolina bans all media interviews with incarcerated people, a policy the state's ACLU chapter says is the most restrictive in the country and infringes on its First Amendment rights.
at least as those terms had been interpreted by the school board, holds the Eleventh Circuit.
The Florida Department of Health sent a cease and desist order to a Florida news station after it aired an ad claiming that women with cancer would be unable to obtain abortions in the state.
Reason's new documentary is now streaming on the video platform CiVL. I hope you'll watch.
The introduction to a symposium reprinted from Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Both presidential candidates (and their running mates) seem confused about the constraints imposed by the First Amendment.
To support the Chiefs, the young fan "wore Native American headdress, painted his face black and red, and donned a Chiefs jersey"; Deadspin said this was "black face" and showed "hate" towards "Black people and the Native Americans."
A divided circuit panel stays the district court's injunction against enforcing Ohio's law.
The film ties together years of reporting on a legal saga with broad implications for both free speech and sex work.
Her comments are a reminder that this free-speech protection is far from safe.
When civilians are the targets, terrorists’ grievances don’t matter; it’s time to hunt the perpetrators.
Daniel Horwitz often represents people illegally silenced by the government. This time he says a court violated his First Amendment rights when it gagged him from publicly speaking about a troubled state prison.
"The judge soon learned that, in a recorded conversation between defense counsel and the defendant, the attorney had referred to the age, race, political affiliation, and gender of the court's judges, and suggested that the court 'should look a little bit more like the people that are in front of them.' The attorney also suggested that the defendant would not receive a fair trial from the court's judges, who are a different race and gender from the defendant. Finally, the attorney used a pejorative term, drawing on racial and gender stereotypes, to refer to the complainant."
A federal judge ruled that the law was overbroad and violated the First Amendment.
(depending on whether the preacher also violated content-neutral conduct restrictions).
The judge concluded that the law, AB 2839, likely violates the First Amendment, and therefore issued a preliminary injunction blocking it from going into effect.
During Tuesday's debate, Tim Walz fumbled a key moment by misunderstanding the First Amendment
The broad ban on AI-generated political content is clearly an affront to the First Amendment.
as a means of stopping an anti-Israel "vigil" organized by the UMD chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.
The defendant had also posted (in 2019), "I'm gonna go to the [expletive] pro-Israel march and I'm going to shoot everybody" and other such statements.
Plaintiff (Stefan Passantino, Cassidy Hutchinson's former lawyer) may thus eventually prevail, if the claim is shown to be false, and if the defendant is shown to have spoken with "actual malice" (if plaintiff is a public figure) or negligently (if plaintiff is a private figure).
Do you care about free minds and free markets? Sign up to get the biggest stories from Reason in your inbox every afternoon.
This modal will close in 10