“The article also documents Plaintiff’s four failed attempts at appearing on the Real Housewives of New York, and the potentially circumstantial evidence that the fire was used as a publicity stunt as it occurred just one day prior to Plaintiff joining a talk show wherein she talked extensively about the fire.”
An article from the Defamation: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives symposium, sponsored by the Center for Legal Philosophy at UC Irvine.
After police detained Benjamin Hendren, they urged construction workers to lie about him.
Public colleges must have viewpoint-neutral policies, but they don't have to allow protester encampments.
The town of Lakeland will have to refund Julie Pereira $688 in fines and fees and pay her $1 in nominal damages for violating her First Amendment rights.
Plus: A listener asks whether Bruce Springsteen's song Born in the U.S.A is actually patriotic.
"Every teacher, every classroom in the state will have a Bible in the classroom and will be teaching from the Bible in the classroom," state Superintendent Ryan Walters announced last week.
The official argued, among other things, that defendant's speech constituted "words of incitement" intended "to rile up the Black community to attack [her]."
Department of Education settlements with protest-wracked colleges threaten censorship by bureaucracy.
Supervised release shouldn't require former inmates to give up their First Amendment rights.
The creator of Masameer County was charged with promoting homosexuality and terrorism for his South Park-style satirical cartoon.
And the Supreme Court agrees to weigh in.
An Ohio trial court issued the injunction, but the Ohio Court of Appeals has just set it aside.
Jane Bambauer and I quickly run down what happened in these two cases (both of which involved First Amendment challenges and social media).
Even as he praises judicial decisions that made room for "dissenters" and protected "robust political debate," Tim Wu pushes sweeping rationales for censorship.
But, at least in this case, this view didn't get the four votes necessary to grant review.
The defendant had alleged that he, his family, and his lawyer had been threatened by the public, but the Ohio Supreme Court concluded that the trial court wasn't given adequate evidence to justify sealing.
The Court is remanding these two cases for more analysis—but it made its views on some key issues clear.
China's free speech record is bad, but the federal government's isn't so great either.
Assange's plea deal sets a threatening precedent for free speech and journalism.
Although the FBI never produced evidence that Ali Hemani was a threat to national security, it seems determined to imprison him by any means necessary.
The standing requirements laid down by the majority might make it extremely difficult or impossible for victims of indirect goverment censorship to get their cases to court.
The verdict in Murthy v. Missouri is a big, flashing green light that jawboning may resume.
It's a classic case of jawboning.
Murthy v. Missouri challenges government efforts to suppress dissenting viewpoints on social media.
Should pseudonymous litigants, and any precedents set in their cases, be known by the initials of the law firms that represent them?
"It’s not like public health is infallible," the Stanford professor and Great Barrington Declaration author tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
The Town of Rose Bud restriction appears aimed at a particular proposed constitutional amendment, which would "require all schools receiving public funds to meet identical standards and would require universal access to pre-K education."
and continuing the conduct while following those employees."
Upcoming legislation would repeal parts of the 1873 law that could be used to target abortion, but the Comstock Act's reach is much more broad than that.
