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Judge: University of Florida can’t enforce conflict-of-interest policy to ban faculty testimony

In a scathing opinion this morning, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the University of Florida’s controversial conflict-of-interest policy, which UF administrators had invoked t...

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Stopping the speech police: FIRE files amicus brief in challenge to Virginia Tech’s bias policy and other speech codes

Katherine Welles / Shutterstock.com Bias Response Teams (BRTs) have proliferated in recent years on college and university campuses. FIRE’s research demonstrates that, where deployed, BRTs chill stude...

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Free speech fosters cultural diversity: Part 9 of answers to bad arguments against free speech from Nadine Strossen and Greg Lukianoff

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 ...

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The rise of certiorari before judgment

For obvious reasons, the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday to grant certiorari in a pair of cases challenging race-based affirmative action in higher education drew major headlines. Less well noticed...

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Might Garcetti v. Ceballos be limited in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District? — FAN 325

The case is Kennedy v. Bremerton School District . The two issues raised in the case are: (1) Whether a public-school employee who says a brief, quiet prayer by himself while at school and visible to ...

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Penn caves to pressure, initiates disciplinary proceedings against tenured law professor Amy Wax

University of Pennsylvania has opened disciplinary proceedings against tenured law professor Amy Wax. Today, Dean Theodore Ruger of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School did an about-face, a...

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SHURTLEFF v. CITY OF BOSTON

596 U. S. ____ (2022) Search all Supreme Court Cases Search all Supreme Court Cases Whether the flags Boston allows others to fly on government property express government speech, and wheth...

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Court will hear challenges to affirmative action at Harvard and University of North Carolina

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to reconsider the role of race in college admissions. In a brief order , the justices agreed to take up two cases asking them to overrule their landmark 2003 decisio...

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After FIRE criticism, Washington and Lee implements new political activity policy, allowing students to advocate for political candidates

The new political activity policy comes after Washington and Lee University barred the College Republicans from displaying campaign materials on campus in the lead-up to Virginia’s 2021 gubernatorial ...

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Ferris State cannot punish professor for comedic — and now viral — video jokingly referring to students as ‘cocksuckers’ and ‘vectors of disease’

Ferris State University Professor Barry Mehler addresses students in an introductory video for his "History of U.S. 1877 to Present" class. (Barry Mehler / YouTube.com) A professor at Ferris State Uni...

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FIRE launches new national ad campaign highlighting urgency to protect free speech

FIRE’s forthcoming advertisement in Sunday’s The New York Times Magazine, which can be found on the inside cover spread. NEW YORK, Jan. 14, 2022 – In a series of arresting ads that strike at the neces...

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Virginia Republicans Continue To Clean House As AG Fires Political Appointees And Announces Investigations

Newly elected Attorney General Jason Miyares relieved around 30 staffers in the AG’s office of their duties, over the howling protests of Democrats. Over the weekend, as Republican Glenn Youngkin was ...

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From protests to the Supreme Court: How the Civil Rights Movement advanced First Amendment legal protections

Protesters gather with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (center) at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. (Wikimedia Commons) The evening before Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinat...

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Sen. Rand Paul joins calls urging Duke to recognize pro-Israel club

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky sent a letter to Duke University in support of Students Supporting Israel. (Rich Koele / Shutterstock.com) Two months after Duke’s student government denied recognition...

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New York court uses college faculty manual as basis of ruling for terminated tenured faculty

A New York state court recently held that the terminations of four tenured music professors from the College of Saint Rose unlawfully violated the institution’s faculty manual. The decision sends a me...

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Revenge of the rescheduled cases: Congressional proxy voting, the ministerial exception, and more

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here . Last week’s relists yielded what w...

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University of Washington administrator doubles down on censorship and compelled speech in land acknowledgment debacle

Almost 48 hours after FIRE called out the University of Washington for its requirement that faculty syllabi include the university’s land acknowledgment on their syllabi or remain silent on this issue...

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Free speech is neither conservative nor liberal: Part 8 of answers to bad arguments against free speech from Nadine Strossen and Greg Lukianoff

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 ...

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Does free speech assume words are harmless? Part 7 of answers to bad arguments against free speech from Nadine Strossen and Greg Lukianoff

Terminiello v. Chic 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 19...

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Three Supreme Court Justices Slam NPR “Mask” Report: “It is false”

Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Gorsuch, Sotomayor Debunk Nina Totenberg Report That Gorsuch Rejected Sotomayor Request To Wear A Mask. On Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was being roas...

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