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Novoa v. Diaz: Florida Board of Governors: Florida Law Restricting How College Professors, Students Can Discuss Race and Sex

University of South Florida Search all Cases Novoa v. Diaz Complaint More than a half-century ago, the Supreme Court recognized that the First Amendment “does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of or...

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Campus Activism Resources

For more than 20 years, FIRE has worked to protect fundamental rights on America's college and university campuses in several key areas, including: freedom of speech and expression; religious liberty ...

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A small nonprofit condemned electric shocks on autistic people. Now it’s facing a lawsuit threat.

Zoey Read, credit: Whitney Ingram, Odja LLC BOSTON, Aug. 30, 2022 — Can a powerful organization bully a critic into silence for condemning the use of electric-shock devices on autistic residents? Not ...

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EU Claims Biden and Iran are Close to Striking New Nuclear Deal

Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid: Biden’s nuke deal will “give Iran $100 billion a year.” President Joe Biden is close to entering a new nuclear deal with Iran. European Union foreign policy chief J...

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Hate Speech

The First Amendment recognizes that the government cannot regulate hate speech without inevitably silencing the dissent and dialogue that democracy requires. Contrary to a common misconception, most e...

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What Are Speech Codes?

Despite the critical importance of free speech on campus, too many universities — in policy and in practice — censor and punish students’ and faculty members’ speech and expressive activity. One way t...

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Alarming proposal would punish K-12 students for any written communication unrelated to class

Is it rain, or are they teardrops? Welcome to Pennridge School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where students will soon have to toss their rights in the trash as soon as they hop onto the bus....

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CRT is “so widespread that it’s harder to find places where it’s not being taught” than places “where it is being taught”

My interview on The Daily Signal Podcast with host Doug Blair about our CriticalRace.org databases: “It’s truly frightening what’s happening in the medical community.” Our CriticalRace.org project con...

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Students sue college president who invented rules to ban conservative flyers

Young Americans for Freedom member Alejandro Flores is suing Clovis Community College. (Alvarez Photography Studio) FRESNO, Calif., Aug. 11, 2022 — Three conservative college students wanted to critic...

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‘So to Speak’ podcast: That Facebook post about abortion could land you in jail

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade , eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion in the United States, many people expected states to pass laws restricting access to abortion servic...

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Flores v. Bennett: California College Censors Conservatives on Campus

Clovis Community College Search all Cases Flores v. Bennett Complaint Flores v. Bennett 9th Circuit Opinion Affirming District Court Decision Plaintiffs Alejandro Flores, Daniel Flores, and Juliette...

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Report: Top FBI Agent Forced Out After Accusations of Political Bias Concerning Hunter Biden

Timothy Thibault, who supposedly has left the agency, has been mentioned quite a bit in letters from Sen. Grassley to FBI Director Wray. The Washington Times reported that Timothy Thibault, an assista...

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Pennridge School District: “Student Expression/Dissemination of Materials” policy

Search all Cases Pennridge School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, proposed a “Student Expression/Dissemination of Materials” policy that would, if adopted, impermissibly restrict students’ Fir...

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UNC Chapel Hill student government commits to follow First Amendment after suggesting it wouldn’t fund pro-life student groups

UNC explained that no student groups will be denied funding on the basis of viewpoint after the student government issued an order cutting off funding to pro-life student groups. (Chad Robertson Media...

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