The Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate has its supporters, but it faces a legal challenge that will come before the Supreme Court this term. Photo courtesy of SEIU International.
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A California man who stood during Supreme Court oral arguments on Wednesday and began expressing his opinions on Citizens United has been charged with violating federal law.
A woman who says a video clip was used without her permission on an anti-Muslim movie trailer posted on YouTube has won a federal appeals court OK of an injunction…
A designated protest area at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California qualifies as part of a military installation that can be declared off limits to a long-time protester, the U.S.…
A trial court must reconsider a First Amendment challenge to elementary school uniforms that sport a “Tomorrow’s Leaders” motto, a federal appeals court has ruled.
In an unusual First Amendment challenge to a revised state law seeking to protect individual privacy, two companies that offer license-plate readers and data services to private businesses such as…
A contentious oral argument Wednesday before a federal appellate court panel in Chicago included a lesson in appellate advocacy for the BigLaw litigation leader representing the University of Notre Dame…
A federal appeals court has struck down a North Carolina law authorizing “Choose Life” specialty license plates because the state did not offer plates expressing an alternative view.
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave CNN a partial victory in a suit demanding it provide closed-captioning on all videos posted on its website, but then…
A Florida appeals court has overturned an injunction against a blogger whose sole topic is criticizing Miami Heat part-owner Ranaan Katz, saying the lower court wrongly applied the state’s exception…
The father of a 7-year-old boy suspended from school for two days last year for chewing a breakfast toaster pastry into the shape of a gun did not protest the…
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