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Maine hospital threatens defamation lawsuit over 15-year-old’s Change.org petition

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...

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Northern Light Health and Eastern Maine Medical Center adv. Samson Cournane: 15-year-old Mainer Fights Hospital Conglomerate’s Attempt to Silence Him With Lawsuit Threat

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...

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College presidents launching free speech initiatives: The buck stops with you

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...

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Nothing To See Here: Fins To The Left, Fins To The Right, Corruption All Around

And other things the media under-reported last week. The Democrat hacktivist media has had a tough week. They’ve worked their tiny little hearts and shriveled little souls hard to ignore, downplay, di...

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LAWSUIT: FIRE sues to stop California from forcing professors to teach DEI

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...

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Palsgaard v. Christian: California Community Colleges administrators compel professors to parrot the state’s views on DEIA in the classroom

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...

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High school removes student suspension and lifts vague social media policies after FIRE sues for First Amendment violations

TULLAHOMA, Tenn., Aug. 15, 2023 — Just weeks after a Tennessee high school student sued Tullahoma City Schools and two administrators for suspending him over Instagram memes lampooning the principal, ...

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Border Crisis: Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn Will be Used to House Migrants

The National Park Service manages the airfield. That means taxpayers are funding it. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn will be used as a migrant shelter. Floyd ...

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O'Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier

Search all Cases School board trustees Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff and T.J. Zane embraced the interactive nature of social media. They used their personal Facebook and Twitter accounts to solicit feedb...

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LAWSUIT: High school student sues after receiving suspension for posting off-campus cat meme

WATCH: Student suspended after posting memes TULLAHOMA, Tenn., July 19, 2023 — In one Tennessee school district, kids can’t be kids. Today, a 17-year-old rising senior represented by the Foundation fo...

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I.P. v. Tullahoma City Schools: A principal’s ego doesn’t override the First Amendment

Search all Cases Complaint - I.P. v. Tullahoma City Schools High schools cannot punish a student for satirizing the principal on social media when the satire occurs off campus and does not cause subst...

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Trump Georgia Bond Restricts His Communications With Witnesses and Initimidation, Including Through Social Media

No witness intimidation or communications with witnesses about the facts of the case including through “posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual on social media.” Not surpr...

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Report: As VP, Joe Biden Used Email Aliases To Loop Hunter In On Ukraine, Government Business

“Then-Vice President Biden emailed Hunter under the aliases ‘Robin Ware,’ ‘Robert L. Peters’ and ‘JRB Ware’ between 2014 and 2016, keeping his son abreast of scheduled talks with then-Ukrainian Presid...

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Trump Proposes April 2026 Trial In DC Election Prosecution

If the feds and Georgia were going to bring cases surrounding the 2020 election, they should have done it at least a year ago. Voters have a right to know the evidence and the outcomes before voting....

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NYC Mayor Adams, Gov. Hochul Trade Barbs While NY Dems Worry Over Migrant Crisis

Former advisor to Bloomberg: “There is no question in my mind that the politics of this is a disaster to Democrats. This issue alone has the potential to cost Democrats the House, because it is such a...

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Illinois Supreme Court Upholds Ban on ‘Assault Weapons’ and ‘Large Capacity Magazines’

The court did not address the Second Amendment implications of the law because the plaintiffs’ waived this claim at trial. In a 4–3 decision , the Supreme Court of Illinois upheld the state’s ban on “...

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Criminalizing Politics In The Trump Indictments

The means by which an election is overturned may be criminal, but the end goal in and of itself is not criminal. So much of what is alleged in the D.C. and Georgia cases is non-criminal politics. I’ve...

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GA State Senator Demands Emergency Session to Investigate Fulton County DA Fani Willis

Willis brought the charges against President Donald Trump. A grand jury indicted him this week. Georgia State Sen. Colton Moore (R) wants Gov. Brian Kemp to declare an emergency session to investigate...

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Maryland Parents Can’t Sue School Over Policy On Secret Gender Transitioning, Federal Appeals Court Rules

Dissent: Majority’s decision is “an unfortunate abdication of judicial duty … with respect to a very important constitutional issue that is directly harming and will likely continue to harm the parent...

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Federal Court Retains Mark Meadows Georgia Criminal Case Pending Hearing

The Court found no ground for summary remand of the case back to state court, and will make a decision whether to keep the case in federal court permanently after a hearing on August 28. Depending on ...

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