Part of the facts in an interesting recent case, dealing with plaintiff's claims that the police retaliated against her for exercising her First Amendment rights to report crime.
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when in context the statement just expressed "an intention to file a complaint against the conduct of government officials."
The legal victory has been attributed to a 2020 law banning qualified immunity for police in Colorado.
Censorship of 2,872 Pennsylvania license plates raises free speech questions.
The "uncommitted" protest campaign had a strong showing in Minnesota, but underperformed in other states.
A new bill would ban TikTok and give the president power to declare other social media apps off limits.
"People are not in politics for truth-seeking reasons," argues the data journalist and author of On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything.
A law forcing kids off social media sites is still likely coming to Florida.
The culture of public accusation and shaming, in high school (and stemming from a relationship that apparently happened when the accuser and accused were sophomores).
So concludes the Nebraska AG's office, partly based on Nebraska state law and partly based on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Iran’s leaders wanted to show the world a high voter turnout. Instead, people stayed home for the "sham" elections.
Salina, Kansas, restaurant owner Steve Howard argues in a new lawsuit that the city's sign regulations violate the First Amendment.
Rather than destruction of property, Wendell Goney was convicted of possession of a firearm as a felon.
A new report from the Future of Free Speech project (a collaboration between Vanderbilt University and Justitia).
A federal judge ruled that three men who committed nonviolent felonies decades ago are entitled to buy, own, and possess guns.
Students should be able to peacefully protest events, but they shouldn't disrupt a speaker or assault attendees.
The Chick-fil-A story heard 'round the world.
"Nobody's ever reported that to me," Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey said after his deputies admitted to brutalizing innocent people.
Several justices seemed troubled by an ATF rule that purports to ban bump stocks by reinterpreting the federal definition of machine guns.
Two-thirds of Americans oppose the Alabama ruling that claims frozen embryos are equivalent to children.
Mississippi's prisons are falling apart, run by gangs, and riddled with sexual assaults, a Justice Department report says.
A federal judge in an ongoing case called the porn age-check scheme unconstitutional. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton doesn't seem to care.
The First Amendment restricts governments, not private platforms, and respects editorial rights.
Supreme Court arguments about two social media laws highlight a dangerous conflation of state and private action.
In Cargill v. Garland, the Court should apply the National Firearms Act text that Congress did enact, and not the text that gun control advocates wish had been enacted.
"No parent can shield a child from all risks," the Iowa Supreme Court ruled.
The Supreme Court seems inclined to recognize that content moderation is protected by the First Amendment.
Hackers have unmasked some of the tactics Beijing and Tehran use to silence their opponents.
The survey also found that two-thirds of respondents believe that America is on the "wrong track" when it comes to free speech.
The monologue was sexually themed, but it's not clear to what extent the court's rationale might extend to situations where a student objects to the monologue for other reasons.
The plaintiffs claimed that 15-year-old Bella Herndon committed suicide because of the film.
Byron Tau's Means of Control documents how the private sector helps government agencies keep tabs on American citizens.
The laws violate the First Amendment because they require social media sites to abjure most content moderation, and platform speech they disapprove of.
Both states are trying to force tech companies to platform certain sorts of speech.
