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Occidental College Search all Cases Shock jock Jason Antebi, a student at Occidental College, served for three years as host of a popular student radio show known for political parody, provocative hum...
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Lewis & Clark College Search all Cases In November 2013, two friends and football teammates at Lewis & Clark College—one African-American and one white—were accused of, among other things, “Discrimina...
The majority-white state of Santa Catarina enacted a January law that banned race-based affirmative action at public universities and state-funded colleges, despite precedent that such systems are con...
Doane University Search all Cases In April 2019, Doane University investigated and suspended faculty librarian Melissa Gomis for curating a historical photo display, entitled “Parties of the Past,” co...
Tufts University Search all Cases In 2006, Tufts University's conservative student newspaper The Primary Source (TPS) published a satirical Christmas carol titled "O Come All Ye Black Folk," a parody ...
Brandeis University Search all Cases On October 30, 2007, Brandeis University declared a professor guilty of racial harassment and placed a monitor in his classes after he criticized the use of the wo...
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University of Colorado, Boulder Search all Cases On November 5, 2013, sociology professor Patti Adler presented a lecture on prostitution as part of her "Deviance in U.S. Society" course. A feature of...
Canyon, Texas Search all Schools West Texas A&M University has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request form . Wes...
Norfolk, Virginia Search all Schools Eastern Virginia Medical School has not been given a speech code rating. To request speech code information about this school, please submit a speech code request ...
The city and the homeless residents agreed on a settlement meant to improve safe parking lots more than a year ago.
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Zach joined FIRE after several years litigating civil rights and liberties issues. While in private practice at a Washington, D.C., law firm, Zach maintained an extensive pro bono civil rights portfol...
Hannah returns to FIRE after serving as an Arthur D. Hellman Fellow in First Amendment Litigation in the summer of 2023. Hannah’s lifelong passion for liberal democracy and civic participation inspire...
Amendments proposed by Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger could delay collective bargaining and impact the makeup of a labor oversight board, among other changes.
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The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, ratified on December 15, 1791, and which enshrine our inalienable rights into law. On December 15, 1791, after years of rigorou...
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