Law, Courts & Regulations
Ringo Chiu / Shutterstock.com A supporter of comedy and free speech holds signs while people rally in support of the Netflix transgender walkout in Los Angeles on Oct. 20, 2021. This op-ed originally ...
FIRE Summer Intern Emily Orland was disappointed when 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones declined to join the journalism program at UNC Chapel Hill. Over the coming months, Emily's experiences a...
Penn State’s response models how other universities should respond when the cost of providing security for student events threatens students’ expressive rights. (Kristopher Kettner / Shutterstock.com)...
Anyone shocked? Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland that “ highly credible whistleblowers ” detail efforts at the FBI and DOJ to downplay...
The Southern New Hampshire University College Republicans asked about inviting conservative speakers to campus. The university's response is concerning. (Shutterstock.com) When new president Kyle Urba...
KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 14, 2022 — A student expelled from Kansas City Art Institute for retweeting sexual art won their appeal Tuesday, notching a victory for free expression. KCAI reversed the expuls...
Shutterstock.com Indiana University School of Medicine will require faculty seeking tenure and promotion to embrace and advance the school’s politicized framework of diversity, equity, and inclusion. ...
An analysis by our CriticalRace.org shows: “The good news is that CRT and related ideologies have not yet captured the military service academies … The bad news is that these ideologies have establish...
Postmodern Studio / Shutterstock.com The dean of Penn Law has called for "sanctions" against Professor Amy Wax, the latest step in a months-long process of sanctioning her for protected speech. The Un...
Abortion rights activists pass the Supreme Court with signs showing their support for the court not to overturn Roe v. Wade. (Phil Pasquini / Shutterstock.com) Justice Kavanaugh's home : "The pickets ...
Jessica Cruz, Twinkle Don't Blink University of Washington Professor Stuart Reges SEATTLE, July 13, 2022 — When Professor Stuart Reges challenged the University of Washington’s position on land acknow...
After spending 9 months in a windowless basement after involuntary transfer to a school that didn’t want me, the Providence School District has given up fighting my legal grievance. Starting September...
For over two decades, FIRE has vigorously opposed legislation and regulations that threaten fundamental fairness in disciplinary proceedings for students on college and university campuses. But we als...
University of Washington Search all Cases Reges v. University of Washington - Complaint Stuart Reges is an award-winning professor at the University of Washington in the Allen School of Computer Scien...
Florida is so far the only state that has enacted legislation that explicitly imposes a curricular ban on institutions of higher education. (KMH Photovideo / Shutterstock.com) We have previously writt...
“pleaded guilty June 27 in District of Columbia federal court to a charge of demonstrating or parading in a restricted building” A Pennsylvania man named Mark Aungst who was set to be sentenced over h...
Washington, D.C., July 8, 2022 — On Thursday — after more than six weeks of investigation — American University administrators finally cleared a student of a bogus harassment charge for sharing his pr...
What is the Eternally Radical Idea? It is freedom of speech. The unfettered right to state your opinion is extremely rare in human history. Your right to promote reform, contradict prevailing orthodox...
In May 2021, I published a list of “ Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments ” with our friends over at Areo . The great Nadine Strossen — former president of the ACLU from 1991 to 2008, and one ...
The Supreme Court will again weigh the executive branch’s authority to set immigration policy as some red states claim that the Biden administration’s enforcement decisions are too lax. The justices o...