In 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 moreThe Providence Journal took its fight against the Rhode Island Superior Court to federal court Thursday, seeking confirmation that a judge cannot prohibit the media from contacting jurors in a criminal trial post-conviction.
Read moreIn their zeal to solve a 22-year-old cold case, Manhattan prosecutors could wind up chilling the state’s expansive press-shield laws, a First Amendment attorney told New York’s highest court on Tuesday.
Read moreThe families of six murdered teachers and children sued radio host Alex Jones on Wednesday over his promotion of the conspiracy theory that the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax. One FBI agent who responded to the gruesome scene is also named as a plaintiff.
Read moreDid officers have probable cause to arrest and incarcerate two men for gang murders they didn’t commit? A federal judge heard arguments Tuesday on why he should toss a gang conspiracy case where the San Diego District Attorney’s Office botched a new legal theory over an obscure gang law.
Read moreThe publisher of Prison Legal News blasted the 11th Circuit for finding that impoundments of the monthly magazine at Florida jailhouses do not violate the First Amendment.
Read moreThe Providence Journal’s request for the Providence Superior Court to send a letter to jurors correcting how they should handle interactions with the media has been tabled for a few weeks, a judge said Monday.
Read moreIn an expansion of inmate rights, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment rights protects speech and, in some cases, silence.
Read more“Gone with the Wind” actress Olivia de Havilland wants to go to the California Supreme Court with her lawsuit against the creators of the docudrama series “Feud: Joan and Bette” after a California appeals court ruled earlier this year the series’ portrayal of the actress is protected by the First Amendment.
Read moreThe University of California, Berkeley, must face claims that it discriminated against conservative speakers like Ann Coulter, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreIn an explosive week for Syracuse University, five suspended students brought a federal complaint Tuesday that says the school defamed them and violated their civil rights over leaked footage of their boorish fraternity roast.
Read moreThe Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday in a case centered around whether or not a career-ending blog post made by a former professor allegedly criticizing a colleague is protected speech.
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