Can California Employee Be Fired for Attending the Jan. 6 Protest at the Capitol?
California statutes suggest the answer may be no, so long as the firing is based on the political activity, and not on criminal conduct.
California statutes suggest the answer may be no, so long as the firing is based on the political activity, and not on criminal conduct.
A federal court said it did not violate her Fourth Amendment rights.
Colleen Oefelein was fired by the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency, and the incident illustrates the vagueness of New York law on this point.
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Federal court holds that documents accompanying motions are presumptively accessible even if the case settles before the court decides the motion.
Authorities "shall destroy the videos unlawfully obtained through the surveillance of the Orchids of Asia Day Spa," a federal judge says.
"The only people who broke the law here were the police officers and TBI agents who participated in this flagrantly unconstitutional arrest."
The company says Donald Trump's leading lawyer perpetrated "a viral disinformation campaign" based on "demonstrably false" charges.
The crackdown on crackpot Kraken claims continues.
Alex Winter's new film celebrates the Rock Hall of Famer's individualism, anti-authoritarianism, and entrepreneurship.
And can't "participate in any protests, rallies or demonstrations."
And, if so, what does this mean for 47 U.S.C. § 230?
"These allegations stand at the heart of plaintiffs' claims, and sealing them would make this litigation virtually incomprehensible to the public."
What went wrong at the outlet he co-founded, what's wrong with the ACLU, and what might go wrong in the Biden administration
The Ohio S. Ct. will take up the question, in the Cincinnati prior restraint case in which we filed an amicus brief.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Bryan Fogel fought Saudi censorship to make his new documentary, The Dissident.
Their letter to Congress warns about inevitable abuses against religious and racial minorities.
"The greater the importance of safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force ..., the more imperative is the need to preserve inviolate the constitutional rights of free speech ... to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion, to the end that government may be responsive to the will of the people and that changes, if desired, may be obtained by peaceful means."
The First Amendment should not be a viable defense in an impeachment trial
Government grows in response to a crisis.
We don’t need new tools or agencies to track alleged domestic terrorists.
Both Hawley's "national conservatism" and similar ideas prevalent in many quarters on the left threaten free speech and liberty more generally.
A nice line, though said in a narrow context (whether Facebook's decision not to remove comments from a government agency's page is relevant to whether the government agency could delete them).
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Threats of defamation suits have prompted corrective statements on Fox and Newsmax, but My Pillow CEO wants to fight.
American Thinker says its claims about Dominion Voting Systems were "completely false."
In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the biggest story was all the reporters looking for a story.
Like the Hays Code and Waldorf Statement before it, new diversity requirements are Tinseltown's way of asserting cultural dominance through self-policing.
Objections to police reform are often more rooted in partisan knee-jerk reactions than in sensible policymaking.
A controversy at the University of Illinois Chicago John Marshall Law School (not to be confused with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
A Connecticut law that made it easier to sue abusive cops is not expected to have a noticeable effect on municipal insurance costs.
Frightening events create openings for attacks on civil liberties.
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even when the parents had originally agreed not to vaccinate, and one parent later changed his mind.
A rejoinder to Josh Blackman and Seth Tillman.
The First Amendment doesn't come with an exception for "disinformation."
Unfortunately, qualified immunity remains intact.
No, says Techdirt's Mike Masnick, but it is cause for expanding Section 230 and building a more decentralized internet.
During the last few election cycles, a wave of well-funded progressive candidates have run for prosecutor's offices in major cities. This time, quite a few reform-minded D.A.s won.