The decision departs from what most courts have done in such Title IX cases—but tracks what most courts do in the many other cases where disclosing a plaintiff’s name might damage the plaintiff’s reputation and professional prospects.
but throws out a similar award against another professor who backed the student's allegations. (A jury had concluded the student's allegations were false and defamatory.)
Priscilla Villarreal is appealing a 5th Circuit decision that dismissed her First Amendment lawsuit against Laredo police and prosecutors.
The bill also attempts to ban drag performances at public libraries.
A newly-obtained intelligence memo shows that the feds took a keen interest in Trump-era campus speech controversies.
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Instead of trusting parents to manage their families, lawmakers from both parties prefer to empower the Nanny State.
Local hostility to free speech may become a global problem.
In March, Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order demanding that colleges crack down on antisemitic speech.
The court found insufficient evidence to sustain 53 of 84 remaining counts against Lacey.
The American Sunlight Project contends that researchers are being silenced by their critics.
There are no good sides in today's Supreme Court case concerning the EMTALA and abortion.
The News2Share cofounder is revolutionizing news coverage.
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Lower courts have been extremely skeptical of attempts to regulate unfinished parts as firearms.
In the Jim Crow South, businesses fought racism—because the rules denied them customers.
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Columbia law professor David Pozen recalls the controversy provoked by early anti-drug laws and the hope inspired by subsequent legal assaults on prohibition.
The Eighth Amendment provides little, if any, protection for the homeless. But courts can help them by striking down exclusionary zoning, which is the major cause of housing shortages that lead to homelessness.
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It's a good idea that will hopefully be imitiated by our allies.
From NBC, what strikes me as a misleading characterization of Professor Catherine Fisk's confronting a student who pulled out a microphone to orate at a dinner organized at the professor's (and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's) house.
Such a removal by the city from city property wouldn't violate the First Amendment, but that doesn't preclude claims that the removal violated other legal rules.
Agency pushes the envelope to require gun dealer licenses beyond the statute.
Banning companies for doing business with China is a bad path to start down.
The new rules allow students to be found guilty of assaulting a classmate without ever seeing the full evidence against them.
The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station.
At least one inmate claims that the shower stalls, which were just 3 feet by 3 feet, were covered in human feces.
"This bill would basically allow the government to institute a spy draft," warns head of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
New language could make almost anybody with access to a WiFi router help the government snoop.
Ethan Blevins of the Pacific Legal Foundation explains why. I myself have made similar arguments.
The university has a history of suppressing speech from both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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