Law, Courts & Regulations
Shutterstock.com The First Amendment prohibits the government from censoring protected speech. But can the government outsource censorship to private booksellers? Nope. The First Amendment prohibits t...
Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK Supporters of Israel rally during the March for Israel in Washington on the National Mall on Nov. 14, 2023. Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed...
Teaneck Board of Education Vice President Victoria Fisher (left) cuts off a person from speaking during the public comment period of the Oct. 18, 2023 meeting of the Teaneck Board of Education. Hamas’...
My take on the hearings: “These presidents seem completely either oblivious or not being honest with what’s going on on campuses for them to say that they welcome diverse viewpoints on campus.” The Un...
Search all Cases At an October 18 Teaneck Public Schools Board of Education meeting, members of the board restricted public comments about the superintendent’s statement on Hamas’s October 7 attack on...
sdx15 via Shutterstock X’s lawsuit against Media Matters for America, a media watchdog non-profit, complains about the “impression” a recent Media Matters report conveyed about X’s advertisers and use...
Lacy Jessica Photography PORT WENTWORTH, Ga., Nov. 21, 2023 — A Georgia city apologized and paid up to settle a lawsuit about its officer’s arrest of a veteran for holding a sign that said “God Bless ...
A low-turnout vote in Venezuela to annex the region likely means that war isn’t coming to the Venezuela – Guyana border yet. But it is certainly another area to watch in 2024. This Sunday, a small nu...
Victor Moussa via Shutterstock Last week, former United Nations Ambassador and current presidential hopeful Nikki Haley got herself in hot water when she suggested during a Fox News interview that ano...
via Annenberg Media WATCH: Booted from the classroom for calling Hamas “murderers”? The University of Southern California has barred economics professor John Strauss from teaching on campus for the re...
Aaron of L.A. Photography / Shutterstock.com Former Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley at the 2024 Republican Presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Aug. 23, 2023. ANONYMOUS EDITOR’S UPDA...
“…the reason this pause fell apart is they don’t want those women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody.” It’s simple. Either Hamas is keeping the women and child...
Brian Logan Photography via Shutterstock Rockland Community College campus building In the wake of widespread student protests on our nation’s campuses surrounding the conflict in the Middle East, uni...
T. Schneider / Shutterstock.com This week, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights published a “Dear Colleague” letter to educational institutions accepting federal funds reminding ...
ACLU Mary Beth and John Tinker display their black armbands in 1968. In 1965, several students attending public schools in the Des Moines Independent Community School District planned to wear black ar...
As CoP28 climate conferences focuses on cows, the EPA is now targeting methane (a by-product of cattle digestion) and considering new effluent rules on meat industry. As the countdown to Nov. 5, 2024,...
JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.com The Brandeis University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine is no more. The chapter was notified yesterday that, due to comments made by the national organization...
Los Angeles City College may have recently ushered in a new college president , but one thing remains unchanged: its disregard for the rights of the student press. Between kicking student journalists ...
Search all Cases In November 2022, the Pike County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio arrested newspaper editor Derek Myers and seized his laptop and cell phone after he published audio of courtroom testimony t...
Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy deal, which will reach the Supreme Court for oral argument on Monday , is just one of many examples of recent unorthodox civil procedure maneuvers in public harms litigation...