Law, Courts & Regulations
First Amendment News will pause for the holidays and return after the first of the year. Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year . . . or whatever. The case is NetChoice v. Pax...
FIRE’s Laura Beltz is out with the Spotlight on Speech Codes 2022 report, which examines the free expression policies of almost 500 colleges around the country. This year, 89 Scrooge-like colleges are...
Stanford University’s Undergraduate Senate declined to fund a College Republicans event that would have brought former Vice President Mike Pence to campus. (Michael Estigoy / Flickr.com) Newly uncover...
Dr. Alina Chan also highlighted the virus’ unique feature indicating probable genetic engineering. An MIT/Harvard Scientist went before a panel of United Kingdom’s Members of Parliament (MPs) and asse...
As a public university bound by the First Amendment, University of California, Santa Cruz may not condition faculty employment on an applicant’s willingness to profess allegiance to a particular set o...
(Dacoslett / Wikimedia Commons) CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 9, 2021 – Davidson College is on the cusp of becoming the first private college in North Carolina to adopt a version of the Chicago Statement — th...
Yaakov M. Roth is counsel of record in Roberson v. United States. (Jones Day) "Roberson looks to be just the kind of case that could interest the Justices, involving the line between political influen...
BIDEN BOOM! That is also six months straight of inflation over 5%. How about that Biden Boom, you guys?! The consumer price index (CPI) rose 6.8% from November 2020 to November 2021, the fastest incre...
After faculty accused the University of Florida of barring them from testifying in a voting rights lawsuit, President Kent Fuchs promised reforms. Now, the university’s faculty senate has released a r...
Boston University's faculty council raised red flags with the administration, pointing to provisions in antiracism policies it believed compelled speech in violation of the university's promises of fr...
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8, 2021 — A new study by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education analyzes the written free expression policies at 481 of America’s top colleges and universities. Spotlight...
Nearly six weeks after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases challenging a Texas law that bans almost all abortions in the state, the justices on Friday limited – but did not fully elimi...
When student journalists at the University of San Diego discovered allegations that a psychology professor had been suddenly fired because of disagreement with administrators over COVID-19 restriction...
A University of Rochester English professor was suspended from teaching after reading a racial epithet aloud in class. FIRE urges his reinstatement. (Daniel Penfield / Wikimedia Commons) We’ve seen it...
f11photo / Shutterstock.com All semester, the attention on Yale University’s speech infringements has centered on two words: “trap house.” The case of law student Trent Colbert being pushed to apologi...
Sotomayor seemed desperate: “Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?” On December 1, 2021, th...
One of the enduring myths of higher education is that the vast majority of professors are protected by tenure and have jobs for life, and so they are therefore free to research, teach, or speak openly...
(Kyle S Lo / Shutterstock.com) For a public university with top-notch free speech promises , what’s happening at the University of Florida is a case study in how quickly things go wrong when politicia...
Ken Wolter / Shutterstock.com Bison statue on the campus of the North Dakota State University. In May, North Dakota’s governor signed into law a proposal conditioning some funding to state universitie...
This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, challenges to President Donald Trump’s 50% tariff on Turkish steel, the University of North Carolina’s...