Law, Courts & Regulations
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...
“When you’re squeezing all you can out of the efficiency in terms of electricity use and water … you by definition either make the appliance worse or slower.” Manufacturers and customers are ticked th...
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....
“I’m happy I quit donating to ole miss bc of this reason” Conservative students should propose using student fees for an event supporting the Second Amendment and see how that goes. Campus Reform repo...
Shutterstock.com This op-ed originally appeared in Newsweek on March 1, 2023. In 1960, as the fight for civil rights gained steam, supporters of Martin Luther King Jr. publicly shamed the police in Mo...
Search all Cases To stop the punishment and chilling of hyperbolic expression, including political speech, FIRE submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in the case o...
ZHMURCHAK / Shutterstock.com UPDATED (June 9, 2023): On June 8, the United States Supreme Court issued a 9-0 decision in favor of Jack Daniel’s. Writing for the unanimous Court, Justice Kagan explaine...
“First Republic Bank and PacWest Bancorp both plunged Friday as the upheaval at SVB Financial Group spread to other lenders.” Within a 48-hour period, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) went from being the “Ba...
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 28, 2023 — At the end of the Second Red Scare in 1955, 9% of social scientists said they toned down their writing for fear of causing controversy. Today, one in four faculty say the...
Steven Walker / USA TODAY NETWORK "Good Trouble" by Clifford McDonald on display at the Embracing Our Differences annual art exhibit at Bayfront Park. The piece was one of three that State College of ...
Roberto Galan / Shutterstock.com Earlier this week, shortly after filing a bill intended to roll back New York Times v. Sullivan , a critical bulwark against government censorship, Florida state Rep. ...
My appearance on the Matt Allen Show on how to stop equity discrimination: “Sometimes when people get publicity on bad things they’re doing, they stop doing it. That doesn’t seem to be the case with t...
Shutterstock.com WATCH: The Arizona House of Representatives voted to require public school students to recite the pledge every morning. The problem is, that’s unconstitutional. Do you believe in pled...
This is New York Times v. Sullivan (1964). Legal Question: To what extent does the First Amendment protections for speech and press limit a state's power to award damages in a libel action brought by ...
Search all Cases Since before the Founding, advocating for civil disobedience has been a regular feature of American politics. From the Boston Tea Party to the abolition of slavery to the women’s suff...
One speaker has a tattoo of the manual vacuum aspiration. The speaker loves the procedure because “it’s one and done. It’s quick.” The insults to the Catholic Church at supposedly Catholic universitie...