Law, Courts & Regulations
Harvard Yard at Harvard University. As most FIRE followers will remember, Harvard made the disgraceful decision this spring to terminate law professor Ronald Sullivan and his wife, Stephanie Robinson,...
(Carrington Tatum/Shutterstock) Last week, we covered a bill sitting on the desk of Texas Gov. Greg Abbot that, if signed, would pose a serious threat to free speech on campus . While that bill’s fate...
A Georgia state representative is the latest legislator to urge a public college to punish a faculty member over comments protected by the First Amendment. Last week, Georgia Rep. Bee Nguyen tweeted a...
Your weekly report on campus news. The Gibson Bakery vs. Oberlin College case just got more interesting. The story generated tons of interest. There were plenty of other crazy campus stories this week...
Shutterstock.com CRETE, Neb., June 10, 2019 — Can Doane University faculty teach without fear? No comment . That was Doane’s troubling response to a letter of concern from the Foundation for Individua...
The Daily Targum lost more than $500,000 in funding following an April referendum. FIRE's analysis reveals the referendum was unconstitutional. (WABC-TV) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., June 3, 2019 — Rutgers Un...
Search all Cases Villarreal v. City of Laredo Complaint Priscilla is a citizen journalist who has gained a loyal following on social media because of her unfiltered reporting on local matters, includ...
“academic leftism is metastasizing off-campus, spreading into some of the world’s largest corporations as well as institutions of culture” Writer Inez Feltscher Stepman suggests this is a problem that...
(Big Joe/Shutterstock) Following complaints from student journalists that Loyola University Chicago’s media relations policy frustrated their attempts to reach school faculty and staff in a timely fas...
FIRE and the National Coalition Against Censorship have sent a joint letter to Nebraska’s Doane University objecting to its investigation and suspension of a faculty librarian who curated a photo disp...
Former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama pose with former first ladies Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, and first lady Melania Trump. Each was disi...
Staffers encouraged to look for new jobs. One would think a progressive leftist media organization would thrive under a Republican administration. The Daily Beast reported Monday morning that ThinkPro...
The University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Ratio Christi, the Christian student club that sued the University of Colorado Colorado Springs over its denial of official recognition, has won that recog...
K. Issa / Shutterstock.com On May 7, FIRE wrote that Williams College needed to do more to protect students’ free expression in light of the College Council’s April 23 vote to deny recognition to stud...
K. Issa / Shutterstock.com WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., May 15, 2019 — The president of Williams College says she is “disappointed” that the student government refused to grant official club recognition to a ...
The first key hires for our research, investigative and education team. It has been a busy few months here since launching the Legal Insurrection Foundation in early March 2019. We have continued to p...
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein leaves a New York state court in 2018. (Lev Radin / Shutterstock) This weekend, Harvard University administrators hit another milestone in their campaign to engage ...
Roughly 1,500 issues of Colorado State’s student newspaper, The Collegian, went missing from stands located in the Lory Student Center. Readers might remember last month when FIRE wrote about how roug...
The old state capitol building in Iowa City, now part of the University of Iowa (David Harmantas / Shutterstock) There is good news for free speech at Iowa’s public universities. Last month, the Board...
Majority of likely voters agree that the boycott of Israel and campus shout-downs of pro-Israel speakers are anti-Semitic When a coalition of student groups at Cornell University, led by Students for ...