The Faculty Executive Council of the Maricopa County Community College District claims in a federal complaint that the district and its board barred the council’s 936 members from discussing faculty association matters during business hours, in violation of the First Amendment.
Read moreSpeech First Inc. claims in a federal complaint that rules against offensive speech at the University of Texas at Austin violate the First Amendment.
Read moreA federal judge ruled today that the Massachusetts law barring the secret recording of government officials is unconstitutional.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Friday reviewed a Montana law prohibiting public disclosure of ethics complaints filed against government officials until after they have been decided, inserting itself into the middle of a caustic political rivalry between a Montana House Republican and the state’s Democratic governor.
Read moreChallenging the ag-gag law that criminalizes anyone who shoots photos or video at animal-handling facilities without the owner’s permission, animal rights claim in a federal complaint that Kansas officials are violating the First Amendment.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Tuesday struck down part of a federal law that criminalizes encouraging undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States, finding it violates free speech rights.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in case that questions whether a claim of retaliatory arrest can survive if officers had probable cause to make the arrest.
Read moreThe police chief in Baker City, Ore., must face a First Amendment case brought by a newspaper reporter who claims the chief harassed him for years because he wrote a column criticizing the police department, the Ninth Circuit affirmed Friday.
Read moreThe White House suspension of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta’s press pass after he and President Donald Trump had a heated confrontation during a news conference has once against cast the president’s rocky relationship with the press in the spotlight.
Read moreThe White House has suspended the press pass of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta after he and President Donald Trump had a heated confrontation during a news conference.
Read moreAn attorney for a prominent immigration activist at risk of deportation urged the Second Circuit on Monday not to miss the chance to prevent a “First Amendment black hole.”
Read moreUrging the Supreme Court to lift a ban it faces in Florida correctional facilities, Prison Legal News found support for its censorship appeal this month from more than 100 groups across the political spectrum.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a claim that New Orleans is trying to enforce “an unconstitutional content-based regulation and prior restraint of speech” regarding a mural on one man’s property featuring “two vulgar words used by [Donald] Trump” on an “Access Hollywood” tape.
Read moreOpponents of what they call Chicago’s “draconian” ordinance regulating Airbnb rentals faced an unsympathetic Seventh Circuit panel at oral arguments Monday morning.
Read moreA literary advocacy group filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday claiming President Donald Trump’s robust threats to use his powers to punish critical media coverage chills writers’ free speech in violation of the First Amendment.
Read moreThe Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a 2nd Circuit ruling involving the application of the First Amendment to the private operator of a public-access television channel.
Read moreA federal judge in San Francisco struck down a lawsuit Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union that claimed U.S. Health and Human Services violated the separation of church and state by allocating millions of dollars to faith-based groups that took in unaccompanied immigrant minors but refused to give them birth control or access to abortions.
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Citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion services and the First Amendment, a Texas veterinarian claims in court that a state law prohibiting him from giving pet owners advice on the internet is unconstitutional.
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