Florida Man's Tall Grass Saga Comes to an End
One man’s overgrown yard became a six-year struggle against overzealous code enforcement.
One man’s overgrown yard became a six-year struggle against overzealous code enforcement.
"We will continue to fight for the right to access the internet without intrusive government oversight," says the group challenging the law.
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Tenth Circuit upholds preliminary injunction in favor of volunteer football coach, high school founder, and school district critic.
A FOIA request reveals what the FBI and Homeland Security had to say about anarchist activities on May Day 2015.
The government always has seemingly good reasons to sidestep people’s rights.
Even vile speech is protected, but violence and other rights violations are not.
Julian Assange and Priscilla Villarreal were both arrested for publishing information that government officials wanted to conceal.
Alabama law doesn't let police demand individuals' government identification. But they keep arresting people anyway.
David Knott helps clients retrieve unclaimed property from the government. The state has made it considerably harder for him to do that.
The latest video podcast episode from Prof. Jane Bambauer and me.
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Calls from the left and right to mimic European speech laws bring the U.S. to a crossroads between robust First Amendment protections and rising regulation.
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The court held that the ADL's claims were factual assertions, and not just opinions; whether they are false assertions, and whether plaintiff is a limited-purpose public figure (who would therefore have to show knowing or reckless falsehood) remains to be decided.
even when he got the address through a public records request, and is trying to use it to show the chief lives far from town. The court concluded that the chief's "exact street address is not a matter of public concern" and therefore, under the circumstances, wasn't constitutionally protected.
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Young people need independent play in order to become capable adults.
The bill would allow the Education Department to effectively force colleges to suppress a wide range of protected speech.
How the Backpage prosecution helped create a playbook for suppressing online speech, debanking disfavored groups, and using "conspiracy" charges to imprison the government's targets
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Half the country says suppressing “false information” is more important than press freedom.
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.
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