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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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White Supremacy is ‘the Single Most Dangerous Terrorist Threat in Our Homeland’ Preaches Biden At Historically-Black Howard U.

“And I’m not just saying this because I’m at a Black HBCU. I say this wherever I go.” This weekend, speaking at the commencement of Howard University, an historically black college, Joe Biden told the...

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Uvalde School District Bans Parent for Criticizing School Security: Adam Martinez adv. Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District

Search all Cases Adam Martinez is a father of two children in the Uvalde, Texas public school district, one of whom was present at Robb Elementary during the shooting that resulted in the death of 21 ...

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Do I have a right to interview sources employed by my college?

Shutterstock.com Day and night, FIRE’s Student Press Freedom Initiative answers hotline calls from student journalists with questions about defamation, First Amendment issues, copyright, and more. Eac...

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UK police’s speech-chilling practice of tracking ‘non-crime hate incidents’

Shutterstock.com Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on the U.K. police tracking so-called “non-crime hate incidents.” Lawmakers in the United Kingdom are considering a revised set of g...

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Congressional redistricting, patent infringement, arbitration, and the Armed Career Criminal Act

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here . The Supreme Court will be consider...

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Uncompelling verdict: After 18-year legal battle, former student loses fight against college officials who tried to compel his speech

Shutterstock.com Here at FIRE, we often come across speech-related policies and practices with disturbing implications. But perhaps one of the most unsettling practices is compelling speech — that is,...

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Free speech shredded: Syracuse University protesters tear down flyers for conservative speaker’s event

debra millet / Shutterstock.com Syracuse University students tore down event flyers ahead of North Korean defector and human rights activist Yeonmi Park ’s speech on April 5, protesting her outspoken ...

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Florida just doubled down on the Stop WOKE Act, and the new bill is just as unconstitutional

K M H P H O T O V I D E O / Shutterstock.com The Florida House of Representatives voted today to send Senate Bill 266 , approved by the Florida Senate on Friday, to Governor Ron DeSantis’ desk. The le...

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Dept. of Energy Going After Dishwashers With New ‘Efficiency Rules’

The standard for maximum per-cycle water consumption (gal/cycle) now is 5. Many newer dishwashers are 3.5. But the DoE wants to make it 3.3. The Department of Energy quietly announced new dishwasher e...

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No, a heckler’s veto is not ‘more speech’

Lawren Simmons / Special to the Sun Students protest during an open forum discussion with Sen. Ben Sasse at Emerson Alumni Hall at the University of Florida. This op-ed originally appeared in the Los ...

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The RESTRICT Act threatens a free and open Internet. It must be stopped.

Ascannio / Shutterstock.com The Senate is currently considering a law that could make censorship in the United States much easier. It’s called the RESTRICT Act , and while it’s still early in the legi...

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From Florida to Maine, school boards and city councils silence critics in the name of ‘decorum’

Tim Short / Florida Today / USA TODAY NETWORK Woman holds a sign reading "freedom of speech" during the Oct. 26, 2022 meeting of the Brevard County School Board in Viera, Florida, which attracted grou...

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IT’S OVER! WHO Officially and Belatedly Declares End to Covid Global Health Emergency

The most interesting aspect of this announcement is the timing. I declared the covid pandemic over when I realized the virus had transitioned to an endemic pathogen that we would be routinely exposed ...

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D.A. v. Tri County Area Schools: School District Forces Students to Remove “Let’s Go Brandon” Sweatshirts

Search all Cases Complaint - D.A. v. Tri County Area Schools Petition for Writ of Certiorari - D.A. v. Tri County Area Schools Michigan’s Tri County Area School District does not like when students ex...

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Students sue after Michigan school district forces them to remove ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sweatshirts

WATCH: Hey Michigan! Political speech in school is still protected speech HOWARD CITY, Mich., April 25, 2023 — Let’s go, lawsuit. Today, two students represented by the Foundation for Individual Right...

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Loyola New Orleans drops misconduct charges against student journalist disciplined for routine newsgathering

amadeustx / Shutterstock.com Student journalist Kloe Witt’s name has been cleared after Loyola University New Orleans said it would no longer punish the campus newspaper’s breaking news editor for rou...

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New York State Now Banning Natural Gas Hookups in Some New Construction

Unless the rule gets reversed, or New York state starts rapidly building nuclear power plants, the unintended consequences to New Yorkers will be many and painful. Late last week, I reported that New ...

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