The allegedly libelous claims about the candidate were made three months after he lost the election; a Magistrate Judge had held the candidate was no longer a public figure, but the District Court disagreed.
Rebekah Massie's removal and arrest from a city council meeting was "objectively outrageous," the judge ruled.
The court also concluded defendant had libeled plaintiff, but the court held that even the nonlibelous expressions of opinion could lead to emotional distress liability. The total verdict of $6.8M.
may be constitutionally unprotected threat.
"Invoking the innocence of children is not...a magic incantation sufficient for legislatures to run roughshod over the First Amendment rights of adults."
The co-founder of Ideas Beyond Borders argues that there is "no better independence than economic independence."
"Plaintiff's allegations are emotionally and politically charged, and ... Plaintiff is a member of certain groups subject to discrimination. That, however, is true of a plethora of cases in the federal courts and has generally not been understood to authorize anonymous pleading."
The court concludes that X's requested discovery is broader than necessary, though it leaves open the door to some considerably narrower discovery.
How the equal time rule is helping him hijack the airwaves.
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.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
The state has been demanding that TV stations remove political ads in support of a reproductive freedom amendment on the ballot this year.
Sarrita Adams, who was a prominent public critic of the English Lucy Letby murder trial, got that order almost four months ago.
But the Arizona Court of Appeals just reversed, concluding that speech about a person generally isn't "harassment," even if unwanted speech directed to the person may be.
The ACLU’s wise decision to defend the NRA in NRA v. Vullo bears fruit.
British law allows local governments to enact absurdly censorious orders limiting "anti-social" behavior.
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.
