The trial court found that "Decker continued contacting Siewert after she had asked him to stop five times" and "Decker's intent was to impose his will on Siewert to make her write about certain issues and to cover those issues in the way that he wanted them covered."
Restricting speech about the world's most pressing problems does not make them go away, nor does it settle any disputes.
Westbrook and the Jazz characterized the fan's insults to Westbrook as racist; in context, the court concluded, these were constitutionally protected statements of opinion.
Colorado, North Dakota, probably Montana, and maybe New York.
Police have set bounties on 13 activists, some living in the U.S.
New anti-drag laws were deemed unconstitutional in every state where they were challenged this year.
A rare federal court decision denying Younger abstention.
(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."
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