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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...
West Texas A&M University Search all Cases Spectrum WT v. Wendler - Verified Amended Complaint On March 20, 2023, Walter Wendler, the president of West Texas A&M University, abruptly canceled a drag s...
Eric Hartline / USA TODAY Sports Philadelphia Flyers mascot Gritty waves a flag during Pride Night against the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Wells Fargo Center in 2021. American sports leagues are no str...
AP News: Since Biden took office, “Iran has launched 80 attacks against U.S. forces and locations in Iraq and Syria.” Nearly two weeks after Iran and Saudi Arabia restored diplomatic relations in a la...
599 U.S. 140 (2023) (2023) Search all Supreme Court Cases Search all Supreme Court Cases Like any issue in the public eye, Americans have a First Amendment right to parody, comment on, and ...
Wikipedia.org West Texas A&M University President Walter Wendler said the university "will not host" a student group's charity drag show on March 31. The president of West Texas A&M University said ye...
Benjamin Chambers / Delaware News Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK Delaware State University President Tony Allen rescinded sweeping confidentiality agreements on students and promised to foster institutio...
Meanwhile, 8 dolphins die on New Jersey beach after ‘mass stranding event’. Legal Insurrection readers will recall that I have been covering reports of numerous dead whales washing ashore on the beach...
Shutterstock.com Two weeks ago FIRE released the findings of its first ever survey of faculty attitudes toward free expression and academic freedom on campus. We asked 1,491 U.S. college and universit...
EQRoy / Shutterstock.com Restrictions on speaking with the media are among the most prevalent infringements on student and employee rights that FIRE sees. Dismantling these practices is a priority for...
Twitter.com Stanford's associate dean for DEI, Tirien Steinbach (left), speaks to Judge Kyle Duncan (right) during a Federalist Society event that was disrupted on March 9, 2023. The free-speech fallo...
The progressive attempts to push pseudoscience on Americans are reaping some unintended consequences. I have been following the ideological capture of our scientific institutions, and today I have som...
Twitter.com WATCH: Stanford's associate dean for DEI, Tirien Steinbach (left), confronts Judge Kyle Duncan (right) during a Federalist Society event that was disrupted by student protesters on March 9...
Michelle Baumbach / Shutterstock.com The Washington state House of Representatives at the capitol in Olympia. FIRE is pleased to announce an important legislative victory for free speech in Washington...
Shutterstock.com FIRE’s Student Press Freedom Initiative is excited to bring back our Free Press Workshop for its second year, this time on June 17, 2023, in Philadelphia. This one-day workshop brings...
“we trust that you will cease and desist from continuing to conduct the [Fellowship] based on racially discriminatory factors … [and will open the] program to all otherwise eligible applicants without...
littlenySTOCK / Shutterstock.com They say there’s no such thing as bad press, but it’s unlikely you’ll find too many politicians and public figures who can wholeheartedly agree. Their relationship wit...
Alexander Davidovich / Shutterstock.com Stanford University Hoover Tower at Sunset. Today, Stanford College Republicans (SCR) will host conservative commentator Matt Walsh, known lately for his “What ...
Everett Collection / Shutterstock.com National Women's Party demonstration in front of the White House in 1918. The banner protests Wilson's failure to support women's suffrage. Martin Luther King Jr....
Sec. Yellen’s announcement that US Treasury is not considering ‘blanket insurance’ for all U.S. bank deposits also a contributing factor. The stock market went up at opening today, with the hope that ...