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Shutterstock.com The First Amendment does not let officials punish people merely because they maintain or espouse certain views. Yet government censors are not so easily dissuaded. Officials often try...
Postmodern Studio / Shutterstock.com A judge ruled last week in favor of The Irish Rover, an independent student publication at Notre Dame, in a defamation suit. FIRE’s Student Press Freedom Initiativ...
Guillaume Bigot Plaintiff Hannah Zoulek is a Utah high school student who fears the new law will chill Utahns’ speech online. SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 16, 2024 — In Utah, government gatekeepers are restri...
“Demonstrated increases in grantmaking for Black communities by foundations are still not enough in the eyes of some perennial philanthropic critics.” Have any lives been improved other than the leade...
Search all Cases Zoulek v. Hass - Amended Complaint From the printing press in the 1400s to the motion pictures of the twenty-first century, politicians have repeatedly tried to address questions insp...
Josh Morgan / USA TODAY Then-president of Harvard University Claudine Gay sits before the House Committee on Education & the Workforce during a hearing on anti-Semitism on college campuses. Harvard Pr...
On the heels of a tumultuous few months for free speech, we’re pleased to spread some good cheer this holiday season. Eastern Kentucky University, which for months held fast to a policy that burdened ...
“All substantive proceedings in this Court are halted. Despite this clarity, the prosecutors began violating the Stay almost immediately.” President Donald Trump and his lawyers have asked U.S. Distri...
Orhan Cam / Shutterstock.com Earlier this month, FIRE’s Legislative Counsel John Coleman participated in Rep. Greg Murphy’s third annual “ Congressional Campus Free Speech Roundtable ” discussion. For...
ALEX HICKS JR. / USA TODAY NETWORK A protester holds a sign reading, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." Since the October 7 Hamas terror attacks in Israel and the subsequent invasion...
Joel Angel Juarez / The Arizona Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK Protests at Arizona State University after the campus canceled an event where Rep. Rashida Tlaib was to speak about the Israeli-Palestinian...
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here . The Supreme Court will consider a ...
Police cruiser dash cam footage of Gregory Bombard's arrest. MONTPELIER, Vt., Dec. 18, 2023 — Gregory Bombard was driving through his hometown of St. Albans, Vermont, enjoying a coffee and a cigarette...
A week after the Israel-Hamas war broke out, Michael Eisen, editor-in-chief of the scientific journal eLife, took to X to post an article from the satirical newspaper The Onion bearing the headline, “...
Sophia Zengierski / Shutterstock.com “Ben on The Bench” sculpture of Ben Franklin reading the Pennsylvania Gazette on the University of Pennsylvania campus. Faculty members at the University of Pennsy...
“People transmit the infection after getting the microbes on their hands and then touching their mouths. People can also spread the intestinal infection through sexual intercourse.” Oregon officials h...
DCStockPhotography / Shutterstock.com UPDATED (Dec. 14, 2023): House Resolution 927 passed 303-126, with 3 members voting present and 2 members not voting. The resolution required a two-thirds vote to...
Morgan Patten Two signs posted to the door of a graduate student's studio art space in the fine arts program at Brooklyn College. College administrators may understandably fear disruption from the ran...
lev radin / Shutterstock.com New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Yesterday, New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul sent a letter warning the presidents of colleges and universities in New York that failing to discip...
Hamas raped, mutilated, and beat Israeli women before setting them on fire…alive. The domestic violence prevention group at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) encouraged people ...