Professor Can Continue with First Amendment Claim Over Denial of Raise for Including Expurgated Slurs on Exam
The Seventh Circuit so held yesterday; the case also involved other controversial statements besides the expurgated slur.
The Seventh Circuit so held yesterday; the case also involved other controversial statements besides the expurgated slur.
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner says "disseminating antisemitism" in a taxpayer-owned building is "unjust to the values of our city and residents and should not be tolerated."
Millions of people are barred from owning firearms even though they have no history of violence, and they have essentially no recourse under current law.
It's far from the first case of terrorism inflation.
At least not if the goal is keeping minors from viewing porn.
The 9th Circuit revived a First Amendment lawsuit by Lars Jensen, who says his community college punished him for complaining about dumbed-down courses.
Just eight colleges had official neutrality policies before the attack. By the end of 2024, it was almost 150.
The Ninth Circuit allows his First Amendment claim against his community college to go forward.
The message that public officials are required to follow the law, even if they disagree with it, does not seem to have gotten through.
Plus: Ukraine attacks Russia with drones, Newsom's revisionist history, and more...
We're hemorrhaging our child population for a reason.
It's both unjust and unconstitutional.
President Donald Trump has begun kicking immigrant “Hamas sympathizers” out of the U.S.
Several months ago, Reason interviewed Mahmoud Khalil at a protest encampment. Now he’s sitting in ICE detention.
A highly significant grant of certiorari for next term.
The law school's dean rejected the letter, arguing the First Amendment "guarantees that the government cannot direct what Georgetown and its faculty teach and how to teach it."
No? Then how can government refuse to hire Georgetown alumni, so long as Georgetown "teach[es] and promote[s] DEI"?
in prosecution for bomb hoax at church; but spray-painting "the stupid Jew" in the storage locker isn't relevant enough, and thus isn't admissible. (Both the painted items were in defendant's native Kurdish.)
The president campaigned on a promise to defend the First Amendment, but he's now attacking free speech through a variety of disreputable strategies.
Trump's nominee for NIH director once stirred major controversy for criticizing lockdowns, mask mandates, and school closures. Yesterday, Senate Democrats didn't even raise the issue.
If enacted, the order would weaken digital security for Apple users throughout the U.K.
Rose Docherty was arrested over her sign, which read: "Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want."
A proposed bill in 2021 would have put the HHS secretary in charge of censoring COVID-19 contrarianism on social media.
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Texas A&M's Board of Regents voted to ban drag shows on the grounds that they objectify women and violate state and federal policies against promoting "gender ideology."
So the Missouri Court of Appeals concludes, in allowing a negligence/design defect case to proceed against Lyft, based on a driver's having been murdered by riders who "fraudulently and anonymously request[ed]" a ride.
The Supreme Court will decide whether this threat to the Second Amendment is legally viable.
That's the correct decision, though I don't think there should even have been a question about it.
largely because the compensatory damages were just $1.
The department insists its directive will not suppress First Amendment rights.
A federal magistrate judge flags the issue, though doesn't purport to resolve it.
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