The EARN IT Act Is Back. Here's What People Are Saying.
Plus: The #OldProProject, food truck police, and more...
Plus: The #OldProProject, food truck police, and more...
"If you (or someone you know) are affected by a free speech event on campus, here are some resources..."
A lawsuit claims N.Y. law authorizes this; if it prevails, expect many more such claims in a wide range of libel cases.
is usually unlikely to yield the best candidate.
What happens in places where the pandemic is a transparent guise for seizing more state power?
The city was not "required to permit the 'organized lawlessness' conducted by the protestors."
Three and a half lessons about Neil Young, Joe Rogan, Spotify, and our age of cultural plenitude
Should Whole Foods be allowed to stop staff from wearing Black Lives Matter masks on the job?
The school told the student she was "restricted from discussing Dr. Lazorski with any student in the CHE 1800 course or any of Dr. Lazorski's classes."
The Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland won't let the animal rights group advertise on public buses.
“Appellants offer no causal link that suggests it was an isolated inquiry by a single Member of Congress that prompted policy changes across multiple unrelated social media platforms.”
UPDATE: "One of our best experiences with a journal yet. Rigorous reviews, supportive editors & simple process. This is what publishing should be like!"
Pandemic-era technologies like Zoom hold great promise, but also create unexpected problems for international students sent back to their home countries.
The pimping charges Krell helped bring against Backpage's CEO and founders were twice thrown out of court.
The court rejected an Excessive Fines Clause challenge (by a 5-4 vote) and a First Amendment challenge.
In The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder, the legendary First Amendment lawyer exposes the tricks of today's "anti-free speech movement."
On government curation and government speech.
University’s removal of professor from journal editorship may violate First Amendment, holds a federal court in the Journal of Schenkerian Studies controversy.
The latest from Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen), pushing back against threats of trademark litigation over parody.
The judge also says the plaintiff's request for pseudonymity was inadequately supported.
“The allegedly defamatory statements Ms. Legarde made included not just online posts but defamatory statements in calls and emails to six people whom Ms. Legarde allegedly knew were Vermont residents and who were associated with Plaintiff through Vermont-based organizations.”
“Plaintiff has filed numerous lawsuits, several of which involve circumstances similar to this case. In some she has been permitted to proceed anonymously; in others, she has not. Regardless, Defendant maintains that Plaintiff is a ‘vexatious litigant.’ This goes directly to Plaintiff’s credibility, and Defendant should not be hampered in pursuing that defense.”
Proving that claim requires more than reckless rhetoric, which is constitutionally protected.
The Director of the UW School of Computer Science & Engineering said Prof. Stuart Reges's statement is "not relevant to the content of the course he teaches"—but the school encourages professors to include its own preferred view, which is just as irrelevant to the course content.
"Lets get ready to steal bitch."