The National Rifle Association sued Los Angeles in federal court Wednesday, claiming the city overstepped its constitutional authority by passing a law requiring contractors to disclose ties to the organization.
Read moreThe fight against robocalls got a boost Wednesday when the Fourth Circuit struck down a loophole carved out for the collection of federally backed loans.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit ruled Friday that the House of Representatives did not violate the First Amendment when it denied an atheist the opportunity to deliver a secular prayer at the opening of a legislative session.
Read moreNo profanity, no bullhorns and no protesting near the circus gates: Defending these rules Tuesday, a lawyer for a county-run stadium in Pennsylvania urged the Third Circuit to overturn a ruling that found them unconstitutional.
Read moreAn Iowa judge ordered state prison officials to stop barring inmates’ access to materials that contain non-sexually explicit depictions of nudity while a lawsuit brought by 13 inmates is heard by the trial court.
Read moreFive military and U.S. intelligence community veterans took legal aim Tuesday at the government’s system of prepublication review, calling it rife with dysfunction and inequality.
Read moreA federal judge granted summary judgment on First Amendment grounds to a high school student whose school kicked her off the cheerleading squad for saying “fuck school, fuck softball, fuck cheer, fuck everything,” to other students off school grounds on a Saturday.
Read moreIn the first decision since a major fault line opened in the legal landscape around the First Amendment, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled that its powerful writ reaches past the state courthouse door.
Read moreA lawyer for Philadelphia urged the Third Circuit on Friday to toss free-speech claims against a law meant to narrow the wage gap.
Read moreIt was a tale of two San Diegos this week as a state assemblyman Thursday introduced two bills aimed at increasing government transparency following the public backlash which led a state senator earlier in the week to kill a bill he’d written with the city attorney which would have made it harder to recover attorney’s fees under the California Public Records Act.
Read moreThe U.S. government ran an operation to screen journalists, activists and others while investigating last year’s migrant caravan from Mexico, a San Diego TV station reported Wednesday, citing leaked documents.
Read moreIn an ongoing battle over First Amendment rights on college campuses across the country, right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro is pushing back against university policies that conservatives say are designed to stifle their speech.
Read moreAn Iowa judge denied the state’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a group of prison inmates who say a law enacted last year violates their constitutional rights by denying them access to materials that are sexually explicit or feature nudity.
Read moreA San Diego lawmaker is trying to complicate the already convoluted process that reporters and Californians must take to view public records and make it harder for requesters to recoup attorney’s fees when they prevail over the government in court.
Read moreClaims of autonomy by the nonprofit operator of public-access television sparked derision Monday at the Supreme Court by a lawyer for one of the founders of the Nuyorican poetry movement.
Read moreA staunchly conservative Seventh Circuit panel upheld Chicago’s “bubble zone” ordinance creating a buffer area around medical facilities – including abortion clinics – but the ruling almost begs the pro-life plaintiffs to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Read moreIn George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” the icon of the surveillance society was the “telescreen” – a closed-circuit device that “received and transmitted simultaneously.”
Read moreReloading in a court battle over the dissemination of 3D-printable firearms, gun-rights activists brought a federal complaint Tuesday against New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal.
Read moreAn attorney representing the San Diego branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a handful of protesters arrested while holding vigil for a man shot and killed by a police officer in 2016 said San Diego law enforcement has a pattern of declaring protests unlawful assemblies once they become “inconvenient.”
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