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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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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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Georgia Indictment: Expect Trump’s Mugshot, DOJ Investigating Jail Where He May be Booked

Isn’t all of this election interference? The left knows a mugshot would help Trump win the nomination. Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat told the media earlier this month that he expects President Donal...

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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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UN Human Rights Council gets it wrong: Prosecuting blasphemy won’t stop religious discord, but it will silence dissent

Sk Hasan Ali / Shutterstock.com Bangladeshi Muslims in Dhaka protest against the burning of a Quran in Sweden on July 07, 2023. Last month, two men stood outside a mosque in Stockholm and proceeded to...

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LAWSUIT: FIRE files third lawsuit to vindicate right to hold ‘God Bless the Homeless Vets’ sign in Georgia

Lacy Jessica Photography PORT WENTWORTH, Ga., July 17, 2023 — Police in Georgia keep failing an easy test: Does the First Amendment protect the right to hold a sign reading “God Bless the Homeless Vet...

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Trump Responds to Indictment: ‘The Whole World is Laughing at the United States’

“And what about those Indictment Documents put out today, long before the Grand Jury even voted, and then quickly withdrawn? Sounds Rigged to me! Why didn’t they Indict 2.5 years ago? Because they wan...

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Buckeye State bill bans college professors from teaching with a ‘point of view,’ limits academic freedom rights

Shutterstock.com Ohio state capitol building in Columbus. In 2020, with FIRE’s support, Ohio passed robust protections for free speech at the state’s public colleges and universities when it enacted S...

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Nadine Strossen

Nadine Strossen is a senior FIRE fellow and the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita at New York Law School, and was the national President of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 ...

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Myth-busting reactions to the Supreme Court’s decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis

Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK Protesters rally in front of the Supreme Court building on Friday, June 30, 2023, the last day of the term when the Court released opinions on 303 Creative LLC v. Eleni...

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Trump Indicted on 13 Counts in Georgia 2020 Election Probe

18 others have been indicted, too. The prosecutors described the indicted as a “criminal organization.” Here it is. President Donald Trump has been indicted for the fourth time. Trump faces 13 charges...

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VICTORY: After FIRE threatens lawsuit, Uvalde school district lifts ban on father who questioned school safety

Nycole Knoxx Adam Martinez was banned from Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District property for two years for questioning the qualifications of a recently hired school district police officer....

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VICTORY: After FIRE lawsuit, Georgia city rescinds law requiring mayor’s permission to protest

BLACKSHEAR, Ga., July 6, 2023 — A Georgia city has eliminated an unconstitutional law that required citizens to get approval from the mayor and city council before they could exercise their right to p...

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Deepfakes, democracy, and the perils of regulating new communications technologies

Are deepfakes protected by the First Amendment? When are deepfakes illegal? Read FIRE's answers to legal questions about deepfakes since the launch and widespread use of popular AI image-generation pl...

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Georgia Sealed Trump Indictment Handed To Court

Indictment may be unsealed tonight. This moved quickly. The Grand Jury has handed in a Sealed Indictment that may be unsealed tonight. Media reports say there are “ 10 indictments ” – I don’t know wha...

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Museum of the American Revolution stands up for free speech, allows Moms for Liberty event to proceed

Rosemarie Mosteller / Shutterstock.com The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution seeks to “share diverse and inclusive stories about our n...

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FTX Founder Bankman-Fried Allegedly Used Over $100 Million in Customer Funds Towards Political Donations

“He leveraged this influence, in turn, to lobby Congress and regulatory agencies to support legislation and regulation he believed would make it easier for FTX to continue to accept customer deposits ...

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Fulton County (GA) Prematurely Publishes Trump Indictment Docket Sheet

13 Felonies listed on docket, even though Grand Jury still meeting and hasn’t voted. In case you had any doubt that Fani Willis is going to get an indictment against Donald Trump, there no longer is a...

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NY Democrat: Erie County Won’t Take More Migrants After Second Alleged Assault Involving Asylum Seeker

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz also demanded “full reimbursement by New York City to the town of Cheektowaga for all costs associated with securing these hotels.” Erie County Executive Mark Polo...

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