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New College of Florida axes professor who criticized college, purportedly over his ‘leftist’ views

Thomas Bender / Sarasota Herald-Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK Christopher Rufo (center) is escorted by police away from protestors at the New College of Florida on May 15, 2023. Earlier this week, New C...

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Continuing a pattern and practice of unconstitutional diktats, OCR now requires schools to ‘promote diversity’ to comply with anti-discrimination laws

(Justin Kozemchak / Shutterstock.com) Last month, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released a letter and resolution agreement regarding book removals at some Forsyth County S...

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UPDATE: UNC Chapel Hill’s clarification on DEI task force reignites FIRE’s First Amendment concerns

University of College / Shutterstock.com In a recent turn of events, FIRE’s understanding of actions by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine regarding recommendations f...

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House Approves Measure to Prevent Biden Administration’s Gas Stove Ban

180 Democrats are going to have to explain to their constituents why celebrities and super-wealthy get exemptions from climate cult rules. The House of Representatives just approved a measure that wou...

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Enduring lessons from Nat Hentoff’s 1982 ‘The Day They Came to Arrest the Book’

Random House Children's Books As a teen, I didn’t like “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The ending bears the hallmarks of a cop-out and I swore I could pinpoint the moment when Twain put the manu...

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When shouting silences speaking: Disinvitations, shoutdowns, and civil disobedience

Shutterstock.com Graduation time used to be known as “ disinvitation season ” around FIRE’s offices, as we prepared for the yearly increase in demands by faculty members and students to revoke the inv...

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Utah Library Association adv. City of Orem: City Punishing Librarians for Protected Speech

Search all Cases The City of Orem banned book displays for gay pride, women’s history, and minority groups. When the Utah Library Association (ULA) criticized that policy as discriminating against par...

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Will NY Gov. Hochul Sign Reparations Legislation?

She hasn’t signed the law to create a commission, yet. Meanwhile, New York City is considering its own reparations program. Last week, the New York legislature passed a bill to form a commission to ex...

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Little v. Llano County

Search all Cases Texas state law directs public libraries to present to the public “the widest diversity of views,” including “those which are unorthodox and unpopular with the majority.” But defendan...

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Campus free speech champion Robert Zimmer dies at age 75

(Photo by John Zich) Former University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer speaks at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago in 2019. Robert J. Zimmer, the former pres...

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FIRE reminds Penn State that student groups have a right to determine their membership

Ken Wolter / Shutterstock.com A recent incident at Pennsylvania State University demonstrates why public universities must respect student groups’ First Amendment’s right to freedom of association. Wh...

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Wuhan Lab Leak Source of COVID: Sunday Times of London Lays Out Detailed Case

SARS-Cov-2 came from a shadow project on virulent viruses from a Chinese mine that being funded by the Chinese military. From the start of the covid pandemic to the present day, Legal Insurrection has...

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In this small Illinois town, beware the book police

Shutterstock.com An Illinois teacher is out of a job after a group of parents accused her of “child grooming” for including an LGBTQ-themed book in a reading assignment for eighth grade students in th...

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VICTORY: UNC Chapel Hill rejects task force recommendation, shows why it’s a ‘green light’ school

Kirk Wester / Shutterstock.com UPDATED (June 7, 2023): This report, indicating that the UNC School of Medicine would not be implementing constitutionally problematic social justice initiatives, was ba...

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UK police can still log ‘non-crime hate incidents’ even after reforms

Watcharisma / Shutterstock.com In Part 1 of this series, I highlighted why the British police are misguided in logging so-called “non-crime hate incidents,” or NCHIs. In this second essay, I consider ...

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Twelfth Oregon County Votes to Join the “Greater Idaho” Movement

These counties do not want to be part of the “Greater Utopia” that includes Portland. This January, I wrote that one Oregon county submitted a petition that added a ballot initiative for joining 11 o...

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New Texas bill could diminish or eliminate tenure protections, jeopardizing academic freedom.

Martina Birnbaum / Shutterstock.com Texas state capitol building in Austin. UPDATED (May 31, 2023): On May 27, the Texas State Senate voted to accept the House’s version of Senate Bill 18. After FIRE ...

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FIRE statement on Florida’s expansion of the Stop WOKE Act

THOMAS BENDER / HERALD-TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed three bills into legislation on Monday May 15, 2023, at New College of Florida. Earlier today, Gov. Ron DeSantis sig...

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FIRE to Uvalde: Lift ban on father who questioned school safety or we'll sue

Nycole Knoxx Uvalde father Adam Martinez was banned him from school property and school board meetings for two years. UVALDE, Texas, May 15, 2023 — Mere months after the Uvalde school district suspend...

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Supreme Court cabins reach of aggravated identity theft statute

The defendant in the case, David Dubin, was convicted of health care fraud for overbilling Medicaid while working as the managing partner of a psychological services company. The government also charg...

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