A 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.
Read more
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.
Read moreA Washington county violated an anti-Muslim group’s free speech rights when it refused to run bus ads displaying the names and headshots of 16 purported terrorists, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.
Read moreA lawsuit over a student government campaign video that some considered racially insensitive fuels an ongoing debate about schools’ rights to limit free speech.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit was keenly aware of the national repercussions of the issue before the court at oral arguments Friday in Courthouse News Service’s First Amendment lawsuit seeking same-day access to new civil complaints filed in Chicago.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday appealing the dismissal of a case that accused the Arizona Department of Corrections of concealing information about the state’s executions.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought against President Donald Trump by a group of protesters forcibly removed from a Kentucky campaign rally, finding that Trump’s call to “get ‘em out of here” did not rise to the level of inciting a riot.
Read moreA federal appeals court in Missouri upheld a ruling that banning political action committees from receiving donations from other political action committees violates free speech.
Read moreA company that sells plant-based meat products and a nonprofit that advocates for those culinary alternatives challenged a Missouri law Monday that restricts organizations like theirs from using the term “meat” to describe their products.
Read moreReviving a constitutional challenge in Florida, the 11th Circuit said that a Fort Lauderdale nonprofit may have a First Amendment right to host meals in a public park where homeless people tend to gather.
Read moreThe Washington Post and seven other newspapers sued Maryland Friday over the state’s implementation of a law requiring greater disclosure about the buyers of online political ads.
Read moreCalifornia cannot dodge a lawsuit claiming it enacted unconstitutional rules to hide the most gruesome parts of inmate executions from the public, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Read moreIn the bucolic days of December 2017, before media outlets had to hire armed security guards to protect their reporters from the riffraff that makes up a presidential pep rally nowadays, President Donald J. Trump offered one of his more telling critiques of the free press.
Read moreThe U.S. Border Patrol may have violated the First Amendment rights of two photographers who were prohibited from taking pictures at the Mexico border, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday.
Read moreVermont does not trample the First Amendment by giving politicians the option to engage in unlimited private fundraising or to collect public funds so long as they meet certain restrictions, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA federal judge in Brooklyn ruled late Friday that a group of anti-abortion protesters did not harass patients and escorts outside a Queens clinic, finding they have the right to continue their Saturday morning demonstrations that began in 2012.
Read moreNinth Circuit judges heard arguments Tuesday about whether a police chief was simply exercising his First Amendment rights when he convinced a former reporter’s boss to fire him after he wrote a column criticizing the police force.
Read more(CN) – In a huge blow to organized labor, a divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government-employee unions cannot force
Read moreA 20-foot, electrically-illuminated cross that has stood in a public park in Albany, California for nearly five decades is unconstitutional and must be removed or the land sold, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Read moreThe Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Thursday that a Minnesota law barring voters from wearing political clothing at polling sites violates the First Amendment.
Read more