Law, Courts & Regulations
Gil C / Shutterstock.com Harvard is consistently ranked one of the best universities in the United States. But FIRE frequently finds itself in the odd position of giving this all-star academic school ...
Wikipedia.org For most students, a new school year brings new classes, new books, and maybe a new notebook or two. For Colorado middle schooler Jaiden Rodriguez, it brought controversy after school ad...
Shutterstock.com No freedom may be more central or important to the human spirit and condition than freedom of religion and conscience — and none may be more dangerous to limit. Religious liberty is t...
The grand jury recommended charging 39 people. As if we needed more proof the charges and indictments in Fulton County, GA, are political. Thanks, grand jury! The grand jury wanted to charge 39 people...
Search all Cases On August 20, 2023, the Yolo County, California, branch of Moms for Liberty hosted a “Forum on Fair and Safe Sport for Girls” in a publicly available meeting room at Yolo County Libra...
When Northern Light Health threatened a lawsuit over 15-year-old Samson Cournane's activism, FIRE sent a letter demanding the conglomerate back down. BANGOR, Maine, Aug. 23, 2023 — Samson Cournane isn...
Search all Cases Demand Letter Samson Cournane is a 15-year-old student at the University of Maine and a patient-safety advocate. In July 2021, Northern Light Health’s Eastern Maine Medical Center fir...
My interview on Epoch TV’s American Thought Leaders discusses how DEI is a “charade” and “damaging performative art” that “forces people to lie” and how “bias-free” certification of algorithms and AI ...
WATCH: FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff on five ways college presidents can prove their commitment to free speech. It’s not everyday that presidents from more than a dozen of the nation’s leading...
Limelight Photography Reedley College professor Bill Blanken, one of FIRE's plaintiffs suing the California Community Colleges system. FRESNO, Aug. 17, 2023 — Today, the Foundation for Individual Righ...
Search all Cases Palsgaard v. Christian - Verified Complaint In May 2022, the California Community Colleges Board of Governors approved diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) regulatio...
Another development to add to the growing list of green energy dominoes that have fallen this summer. The summer of 2023 may be remembered as an important point in human civilization as the threat to ...
It’s not clear at this point how much of the case even will remain in state court. The Atlanta Judge presiding over the trials of Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants in the wide-ranging RICO and related...
“She’s the governor of the State of New York. New York City is in that state. Every county in this state should be part of this.” The argument over the migrant crisis escalated between New York City M...
NY Court: “The utilization of an individual’s religious beliefs and practices to limit their inclusion is the very definition of religious discrimination.” The City University of New York (CUNY) suffe...
The Republican-led House Small Business Committee wrote to the Department warn the new rules could put 10-30 percent of manufacturers out of business. If there has been a more humanity-hating administ...
So many books cover the work of the Supreme Court that the Journal of Supreme Court History can review several of them in each issue. The overwhelming majority of those books, though, analyze the work...
Three portraits with a message Trump’s mugshot was meant to deeply humiliate him, something the left has been hoping for during all the years of Trump’s presidency and beyond. Now that the photo has b...
“The TRUMP team is UPSET because Ron DeSantis played ball with his family while their dear leader was getting his mugshot taken. I seriously thought it was a parody account, but they really expect th...
Do a word association. What is the word to describe the mugshot — not how you feel about it (e.g. anger) — but what you think his ‘look’ shows. I wasn’t sure what ‘look’ Trump would use when he went f...