Law, Courts & Regulations
The Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington in Seattle. (Arthit Kaeoratanapattama/Shutterstock) As the country reckons with the reverberations of the May 25 murder of George Floyd, students n...
UCLA lecturer Gordon Klein is teaching once again, after he and FIRE fought back to protect his academic freedom rights. (Credit: UCLA) LOS ANGELES, June 10, 2020 — The Foundation for Individual Right...
Search all Cases On June 10, 2020, the Victim Rights Law Center, Equal Rights Advocates, Legal Voice, and Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation challenged the 2020 Title IX regulations as arbit...
Part of a decade-long campaign to falsely blame Israel and U.S. Jewish organizations for U.S. policing under the banner of the “Deadly Exchange” campaign, a vicious campaign we have exposed many times...
DCStockPhotography / Shutterstock.com On May 6, the Department of Education issued new regulations governing the way colleges and universities must address claims of sexual misconduct under Title IX. ...
The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., ignoring a letter from FIRE , won’t explain why it suspended a professor for tweets expre...
The Stewart Bell Tower at Weber State University. (D.fletcher4/Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0) Yesterday, Weber State University placed tenured professor Scott Senjo on “administrative leave,” removing him fr...
It has been eight years since the Obama administration created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, which allows undocumented young adults who came to the United States a...
In a sweeping, decisive victory for procedural fairness on campus , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a student expelled for sexual miscond...
Any valid democratic theory of the First Amendment must protect the ability of self-governing citizens to discover and vote in line with their true best interests. Because both regulating and not regu...
(Kim Willems/Shutterstock) Vote of as few as 1 in 10 undergraduates could be enough to strip the group of official recognition On Apr. 25, the Undergraduate Student Government at Case Western Reserve ...
“What I would like is for all police around America to get their jobs and do them the right way, the correct way. Innocent people shouldn’t have to die. You can do your job and still maintain respect ...
An internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II, the Granada War Relocation Center in Colorado. Administrators at Bellevue College in Washington have come under scrutiny in recent months...
One feature of debates over college students’ attitudes toward free expression is disagreement over whether recent examples of illiberalism on campus are a component of a larger generational shift in ...
Official Clarence Thomas portrait. (Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States) Justice Clarence Thomas, like Justice William O. Douglas, prides himself on being a constituti...
This post — which is an updated version of posts that we have published in earlier terms — addresses some of the questions about orders and opinion announcements that we have commonly received during ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second part of a multi-part series updating developments since the publication of “ The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Gen...
Shutterstock.com On May 6, the Department of Education completed a nearly 18-month-long process of reforming how educational institutions must handle Title IX complaints by publishing new regulations ...
Floyd Abrams In FAN 247 , I profiled Wendell Bird's “ The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech: From Blackstone to the First Amendment and Fox’s Libel Act ” (Oxford University Press, 2020) (clot...
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination “because of sex.” Today the Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-3, ruled that even if Congress may not have had discrimination b...