Hospital Threatens Defamation Suit Over a 15-Year-Old's Change.org Petition
The hospital baselessly claimed the teenager's mother wrote the petition after she was fired without cause.
The hospital baselessly claimed the teenager's mother wrote the petition after she was fired without cause.
The paper worries that "social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against political misinformation."
While chalking on D.C. sidewalks and streets is illegal, the protesters say they were targeted for their beliefs.
Plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden allege that federal pressure to remove and suppress COVID-19 material on Facebook and Twitter violates the First Amendment.
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The District allowed "Black Lives Matter" protestors to violate the city's defacement ordinance, but enforced the law against groups with a different political message.
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Body camera footage shows that Delaware police cited Jonathan Guessford for flipping them off, even though they later agreed it was his right to do so
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The decision supports the notion that victims are entitled to recourse when the state retaliates against people for their words. But that recourse is still not guaranteed.
The Kids Online Safety Act imposes an amorphous "duty of care" that would compromise anonymous speech and restrict access to constitutionally protected content.
When he alleged fraud and sought help from government officials, they say, Trump was exercising rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Recent articles by Lawfare and Walter Olson perform a valuable service on this front.
UVA found "insufficient evidence" to conclude that Morgan Bettinger called protesters "good speed bumps." They punished her anyway.
Larkin, 74, took his own life on Monday, just a little over a week before he was slated to stand trial for his role in running the web-classifieds platform Backpage.
"Government in general does a lot of things that aren't necessary," says Jared Polis.
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Unlike calling Trump's stolen-election fantasy "the Big Lie," his lawyer's statements were demonstrably false assertions of fact.
"Can someone quickly remind me why we were removing—rather than demoting/labeling—claims that Covid is man made," asked Meta's president for global affairs.
Texas A&M placed a professor on paid leave for criticizing Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in a lecture on the opioid crisis.
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Both the state attorney general and the state legislature declined to defend the law in court after the ACLU of Arizona and news media organizations sued to overturn it.
DeSantis talks a lot about freedom but increasingly only applies it to those who agree with him.
Appeals in the January 6 cases raise serious questions about how broadly the statute should be applied.
Blame university administrators.
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Schools don't get to censor nondisruptive off-campus speech.
Joshua Rohrer not only seeks damages for his violent arrest but also wants the city's anti-panhandling ordinance overturned on First Amendment grounds.
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One thing is clear about Missouri v. Biden: The decision cannot be understood by viewing it through a polarized lens.
Journalism is an activity shielded by the First Amendment, not a special class or profession.
"Disinformation" researchers alarmed by the injunction against government meddling with social media content admire legal regimes that allow broad speech restrictions.
The response to the decision illustrates the alarming erosion of bipartisan support for the First Amendment.
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Adam Martinez was banned from school property after he criticized the district's decision to hire an officer deemed "ineligible for rehire" by the local sheriff's office.
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"Americans don't need a permission slip to speak in front of city hall. The First Amendment is their permission slip," said one attorney involved in the case.
Unfortunately, there is reason to doubt that the judge's decision will meaningfully constrain the feds.
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"We are adamant that the hiring committee...not extend a job offer to Dr. Yoel Inbar," reads the petition.
If you can't force a web designer to serve a gay wedding, can you force a web platform to serve a politician?
The decision reverses a terrible previous decision by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The lawsuit claims the ban has no "legitimate penological justification"
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The ruling is the latest in a series of legal defeats for anti-drag laws.