displayed on defendant's car and on her fence facing neighbors who have a transgender child; an appellate court reverses the conviction on procedural grounds, without resolving the First Amendment issue.
The case was brought by Turning Point USA over the University of New Mexico's decision to charge over $5K (originally planned to be over $10K).
The decision is a reminder that independent reporters are still protected by the same First Amendment as journalists in legacy media.
The university caved to pressure to target pro-Palestine events.
(1) the particular plaintiffs, who wore masks for health reasons, were excluded from the ordinance's operation, and (2) the risk that officials would misapply the ordinance to them wasn't sufficient to give them preenforcement standing.
New guidance makes explicit what should have been clear already: Standard 208 obligates law schools to embrace First Amendment principles.
A great free resource for lawyers, judges, academics, and students doing cross-state constitutional law research.
Reversing a trial court decision that awarded custody to mother.
The court concluded that the Director of Safety and Security at a small private college didn't qualify as a "public official or public figure" for purposes of the state's anti-SLAPP statute.
The court stresses, though, that "The complaint includes no claims brought solely on behalf of Plaintiff Doe," and "Based on the description of the claims, including when and where the alleged vandalism took place and photographs of the vandalism, it appears defendants could adequately defend themselves against the claims without knowing Plaintiff Doe's identity."
The worldwide erosion of support for free speech continues.
So holds the Eleventh Circuit, upholding the district court's decision—but the court's standard of review suggests that the exact oppose district court decision might have been upheld, too.
State boards use outdated laws to target content creators, raising urgent questions about free speech in the digital age.
Opposing Priscilla Villarreal's petition for Supreme Court review, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton portrays basic journalism as "incitement."
What if there was a social media platform owned not by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or the Chinese Communist Party, but by everybody and nobody all at once?
employees were required to "correctly" answer multiple choice questions based on the training content.
As Israel-Hamas demonstrations continue in the new school year, the misunderstanding of free speech is fueling disruption and hypocrisy on campuses.
As long as academic institutions place social justice goals ahead of truth seeking and knowledge creation, they will lose the respect of the public and will not live up to their potential.
Officials allegedly retaliated against a professor who expressed politically controversial statements about the best treatments for gender dysphoria among youth.
Glenn Greenwald discusses Brazil's ban of X, the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov, and the global crackdown on speech on Just Asking Questions.
Social media poses problems far more serious than misinformation campaigns, but solutions consistent with the First Amendment are not clear.
Prof. Allan Josephson (formerly of the University of Louisville medical school) claims his contract wasn't renewed because "he expressed his thoughts on treating childhood gender dysphoria during a panel discussion sponsored by a conservative think tank [the Heritage Foundation]."
The best practitioners of the freedom of speech are those who do not assume that everyone who disagrees with them operates from bad motives.
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