A federal judge found the plaintiffs had shown that the Department of Homeland Security "treats the mere public recording of its agents as a threat" that it responds to with violence.
The list includes picture book versions of "David and Goliath" and "Daniel and the Lion’s Den" for elementary students and excerpts from the Book of Job for high schoolers.
BOSTON, Mass. — The Massachusetts Court of Appeals vacated a judgment in favor of a prison in a prisoner’s lawsuit over prison officials’ decision that the book “Life of a Klansman” by Edward Ball was contraband and that the inmate wasn’t allowed to have it. The inmate’s “complaint plausibly alleges that the [prison officials] are violating his constitutional rights by allowing inflammatory media against one race to be distributed, while not allowing [him] to possess anti-racist material that may be perceived as inflammatory against another race.” He also alleged that the prison played videos of Louis Farrakhan “advocating hate of White People” and held books titled with racial epithets in its library.
A former public defender says the state office fired him after he moved to drop three cases from a workload covering 130 clients.
The Stabbin' Wagon claims the city of Medford and its employees tried to get the state health authority to "undo" its $1.5 million grant.
YouTuber SeanPaul Reyes, otherwise known as Long Island Audit, was arrested in 2023 after entering two Brooklyn police precincts while filming.
By tying state prisoners’ religious rights to whether prison guards consented to federal legislation, the three liberal justices said their colleagues had transformed civil rights protections to “nothing more than the wheelings-and-dealings of an especially wealthy private party.”
The $270,000 fence was installed following an incident in which protesters breached the lobby of the federal building and broke windows.
BROOKLYN — A New York federal judge granted a preliminary injunction halting the enforcement of the Religious Safety Act, which would have prohibited picketing, oral advocacy and literature distribution within 35 feet of entrances or driveways leading to houses of worship. The advocates challenging the law wish to advocate for immigrants as an expression of their Catholic faith, and because the law would give criminal penalties for even basic First Amendment activities such as wearing T-shirts with political messages, they are likely to succeed on their challenge.
Thursday's opinion reinstated an Ohio requirement that minors under age 16 get parental consent before creating social media accounts, despite First Amendment objections from an internet trade group.
PHOENIX — An appeals court in Arizona ruled that an ex-boyfriend’s social media post stating that he is HIV positive and identifying his ex-girlfriend, the mother of his child, as a former partner constituted First Amendment-protected speech. The lower court erred in determining that it was criminal harassment and issuing an order of protection against him.
