(Note that the court dealt with a professional licensing board's threat of punishment for such engineers; it doesn't deal with the separate question whether a government body may refuse to accept testimony from an unlicensed expert.)
The trial judge concluded the Tweet was “harassment by defamation.”
Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.
the Ninth Circuit rules, though expressly noting that "The question whether the Nevermind album cover meets the definition of child pornography is not at issue in this appeal."
recommends a Magistrate Judge, in a case brought over defendant student organization chair's claims that plaintiff had engaged in "sever[e], consisten[t], and widespread" misbehavior.
The Colorado Supreme Court's reasoning in deciding that Trump is constitutionally disqualified from running for president seems iffy.
Stella Assange discusses the imprisonment of her husband on the third episode of Just Asking Questions.
Law enforcement officials appear to have tarred ad hoc bands of protesters as members of an organized criminal movement.
The flip side of what happened with defendant-side discovery misconduct in the Rudy Giuliani and Alex Jones cases, though with much smaller stakes.
Some Substack writers are pressuring the platform to change its moderation policies. Others are urging Substack not to listen.
Defendant was "walking along the highway holding up signs to passing motorists stating 'PHUCK,' '#THIN BLUE,' and 'Slow Down Police Ahead.'"
FIRE and the ACLU of Vermont are now representing the man in a free speech lawsuit.
Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.
Most 18-to-24-year-old registered voters, a recent poll reports, view Israel's actions as "genocide."
The ACLU will represent the gun rights group in a case with widespread relevance for free speech.
A graduate student was forced to take down two pro-Palestinian signs from the door of her art studio, but others were allowed to keep up their own political messages.
"A group of eBay employees devised and engaged in a campaign of harassment, stalking, and threats to stop the Steiners from reporting about eBay" in their ECommerceBytes trade publication.
"The job of academia is the discovery of truth. Universities should not be in the bullshit business."
In her article, University of Pennsylvania professor Claire O. Finkelstein absurdly argued that colleges treat free speech as "near-sacred."
The ban also extends to private devices that are used to access state networks.
Liz Magill and two other university leaders provoked bipartisan outrage by defending freedom of expression on campus.
The trial of the first of 61 defendants starts today, but the judge has seemingly forbidden any of the defendants or their attorneys from discussing the case.
Plus: A listener asks if there is any place libertarians can go to start their own country or city state.
Security clearances can be denied based on constitutionally protected speech; but there's an adjudicative process aimed at reviewing whether such denials make sense in light of the facts of each case.
Let's focus concretely on proposed bans on advocacy of "genocide," at Stanford and beyond.
Plus: University reckoning, climate-grief vasectomies, Chinese garlic, and more...
"We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good."
