Law, Courts & Regulations
We’re not supposed to be here anymore. At least that was the thought when we were founded 20 years ago. FIRE co-founder Harvey Silverglate put it best : “There is, of course, a sad side to FIRE’s long...
Delaware State Flag. Credit: Shutterstock Holiday Notice: FAN will be taking a holiday break and will return on Jan. 8, 2020. Later that month we will post a press release likely to be of considerable...
Last month, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni wrote a letter to the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to express concern about Penn’s treatment of law professor Amy Wax and about th...
de Blasio blamed an “atmosphere of hate has been developing in this country over the last few years.” Readers of LI are well aware that anti-Semitism has been on the rise in the U.S. and across Europe...
UPDATE, 12/11/19: The text of the executive order is now publicly available . The order directs federal agencies charged with enforcing Title VI to “consider” the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism and ...
(Christopher E Zimmer/Shutterstock) Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in a lawsuit filed in September by FIRE against Mississippi’s Jones County Junior College as...
Truman State student Naomi Mathew's animal rights group has been approved after FIRE advocated for fairer club recognition policies. (Rivera Eye Photography for FIRE) KIRKSVILLE, Mo., Dec. 10, 2019 — ...
With the spike in antisemitic violence in and around NYC, the campaign by Jewish Voice for Peace and other anti-Zionist groups to blame Israel and American Jews for police shootings of minorities take...
Protesters and police in Hong Kong clash on Oct. 1, 2019. (Isaac Yeung/Shutterstock.com) The mass protests that have swept Hong Kong in recent months are unlikely to cease anytime soon. What is likely...
First Amendment News is a weekly blog and newsletter about free expression issues by Ronald K. L. Collins. It is editorially independent from FIRE. In 2018, California passed a law that expanded its p...
After pushback from students and FIRE, Ohio University dropped an unconstitutional directive suppressing student speech. ATHENS, Ohio, Nov. 26, 2019 — Ohio University dropped an unconstitutional direc...
“the suspect – identified as Grafton E. Thomas, 37, of Greenwood Lake, New York – will face five counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary” As Mary blogged earlier this week, New York City ...
<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Sp...
This past Monday the Supreme Court handed down its first campaign finance ruling since McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (2014), this at the same time that it denied cert. in another campaign ...
After police shut down a free speech event at Santa Ana College, students in the campus chapter of Young Americans for Liberty fought back to get the policy changed. (Credit: SAC Young Americans for L...
“You f*cking Jew, your end is coming!” Jews in New York City have faced even more anti-Semitic attacks this week as they celebrate Hanukkah. The New York Police Department (NYPD) is now investigating ...
Chad Robertson Media / Shutterstock.com SYRACUSE, N.Y., Nov. 22, 2019 — Days after an alleged racist incident caused Syracuse University to pull the plug on all fraternity activities — even those of m...
Tony Mauro The American Lawyer and ALM recently announced the first winners of the Tony Mauro Media Lawyer Award, "established this year to honor attorneys who zealously advocate for freedom of the pr...
The newsroom of Radford University's student paper, The Tartan. (Courtesy Dylan Lepore) Are more student newspapers going missing again after a two-decade downturn ? It sure seems that way. A bizarre ...
Liberal legal analyst Danielle McLaughlin said in a panicked voice that she had no idea what the Democratic counter-strategy was, outside of “literally hoping Ruth Bader Ginsburg survives.” There was ...