Free Speech
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Feds can't threaten to prosecute man for 'degrading' email comparing ICE chief to Nazi: judge
Agents visited Rochester man's home while he was traveling, then tracked him down to NYC hotel, to deliver "warning notice" that "practically shouts" criticizing ICE may get him prosecuted. DOJ objects to D.C. court jurisdiction.
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Professors punished for resisting woke orthodoxy win six-figure settlements, freedom to teach
University of Washington computer scientist gets to post his parody "land acknowledgment" in syllabi "in perpetuity," with no more administrative interference. Community college backs off historian who criticizes "cultural Marxism."
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Appeals court blocks Minnesota's censorship of election integrity group over felon voting
The law is content-based and Minnesota has a better way to protect voting rights: tell specific felons they're eligible, judges nominated by Republican presidents say. State supreme court already rejected challenge to felon voting law.
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Minnesota ban on election 'deepfakes' doesn't exempt parody, groups ask appeals court to clarify
The ruling against satirist "Mr Reagan" shows trend of courts "narrowing state law to avoid a constitutional conflict," in this case that "the law does not criminalize constitutional parody despite no written parody exception," brief says.
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Louisville pays Christian photographer $800,000 for law requiring her to do same-sex weddings
A court banned the city three years ago from "either compelling or suppressing Nelson’s photography and writing" under its public accommodations law, which is superseded by the First Amendment.
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From Detroit to Times Square, politicians seek to censor the wrong speech in the wrong place
Detroit passed "buffer zone" around abortion clinics after its lawyer botched SCOTUS precedent, suit says. New York bills would create "series of First Amendment dead zones," Gov. Hochul wants to ban protests that "alarm and annoy."
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Pro-lifers defeat abortion clinic 'buffer zone' law, as other municipal speech bans face lawsuits
Free speech group warns city about vague ban on pamphleting, library sued for banning religious group
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First Amendment protects elementary school students, appeals court says in 'All Lives Matter' case
With 9th Circuit ordering a trial in lawsuit against principal for allegedly punishing first-grader for giving classmate a drawing, appeals courts covering half the states now recognize First Amendment rights at young ages.
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'Kangaroo court' tribunal fines school board member $750,000 for opposing gender ideology
Human Rights Tribunal orders Barry Neufeld to pay LGBTQ-identified educators for "injury to their dignity, feelings, and self-respect," prompting petition by would-be Conservative leader. Gender-critical nurse kicked out of her union.
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Cops arrest preacher after crowd assaults him for anti-LGBTQ sign, he appeals judge who approved it
President George W. Bush nominee claimed "heckler's veto doctrine" doesn't exist, told jury that censorship motivated by desire to "promote public order" doesn't violate First Amendment, appeals court hears.
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School district pays $650,000 to Christian teacher fired for refusing preferred pronouns: lawyers
New SCOTUS precedent on religious accommodations revived John Kluge's Title VII lawsuit against Indiana school district, prompting settlement before trial this spring.
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Judge bans college from punishing professor for criticizing DEI, 'cultural Marxism'
California's Bakersfield College can require Daymon Johnson to complete DEI training required for faculty screening committees, however, Biden-nominee judge says.
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Penn State forces faculty to become DEI zealots to get promoted, wine scientist's lawsuit says
University's promotion review committee denied enologist Molly Kelly because she only "checked the box" for DEI by doing outreach to insufficiently diverse groups, showing its unconstitutional "ideological demands," she says.