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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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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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Cherry-picked history: Reva Siegel on “living originalism” in Dobbs

“ Dobbs is the product of originalism,” Reva Siegel, professor of law at Yale University, said last month. Few legal scholars would disagree. But for Siegel, the more interesting question is what orig...

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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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New book by Bollinger and Stone on social media and free speech — FAN 348

Lee Bollinger (left) and Geoffrey Stone (right) make for an impressive duo in their new book, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy.” When it comes to organizing and editin...

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Comeback of the catechism: When today’s speech norms launch old inquisitions

Painting by Francisco Goya depicting an act of public penance carried out between the 15th and 19th centuries of condemned heretics and apostates imposed by the Inquisition. (Wikipedia.org) In recogni...

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If We Don’t Tell Their Stories, Who Will? – Legal Insurrection Summer 2022 Fundraiser

“Professor Jacobson and the entire staff at Legal Insurrection are true heroes.” Giving voice to people under attack is one of the things Legal Insurrection does best. We bring light to the darkness o...

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Free speech culture can still flourish at ‘Warning’ schools

While some students may elect to forgo certain expressive rights when attending a “Warning” school with a mission they’re passionate about, The Black Menaces at Brigham Young University foster a cultu...

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Stars, Stripes and Civil Rights: The 2022 FIRE Student Network Conference

FIRE summer interns speak at the 2022 FIRE Student Network Conference From Friday, July 15 to Sunday, July 17, the FIRE Student Network Conference returned, with some old friends and some new twists. ...

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Repressive executive order from UNC Chapel Hill student government cuts off funding for pro-life individuals, causes

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., July 28, 2022 — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student government president issued an order this month cutting off executive branch funding “to any individual, busi...

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Affirmative action cases up first in November argument calendar

The Supreme Court will kick off its November argument session with the highest-profile cases of that session: challenges to the consideration of race in the admissions process at Harvard and the Unive...

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Neither lux nor veritas: Yale pairs speech-protective policies with a culture of intolerance

Yale University campus (Shutterstock.com) “I hope you, personally, will one day apply the values of intellectual diversity.” “I’d rather eat shards of glass.” “Go fuck yourself!” These were the types ...

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Cancel culture empowers the powerful — at everyone else’s expense

When Washington Post reporter David Weigel retweeted a joke in early June, he probably didn’t expect to be suspended without pay for a month, or for it to lead to a newsroom blowup culminating in anot...

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What is the reach of free speech after the Dobbs abortion ruling? Part 2 — FAN 347

First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins. It is editorially independent from FIRE. The July 13th post of FAN highlighted various attemp...

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Monkeypox: California, Illinois, New York Declare State and Public Health Emergencies

California, Illinois, and New York have 47% of the 6,000 confirmed monkeypox cases in the U.S. What a shock that the three states that led the country in draconian COVID measures have declared states ...

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Virginia Commonwealth University plans to violate the First Amendment rights of thousands of students with deferred recruitment policy

Bakhtiar Zein / Shutterstock.com Virginia Commonwealth University boasts that its fraternity and sorority community “has enhanced the lives of thousands of men and women over the last 50 years.” As a ...

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