Bike-riding in the nude has been found to be a form of constitutionally protected speech in Portland, Ore. But across the river in Vancouver, Wash., the courts apparently take a…
Called by a concerned citizen over an undressed mannequin in a store window, Beatrice, Neb., police first covered that part of the window with paper and then, when store owner…
A tenured English professor who reportedly maintained an online persona as a dominatrix, posing with current and former graduate students, and admittedly supplemented her salary by working for a sex…
Saying that a blanket ban on all use of certain expletives on television is unconstitutionally vague and chills the right of free speech, a federal appeals court has struck down…
Stringent new Florida Bar rules on attorney online advertising have ignited a firestorm, attracting criticism from a sweeping array of groups including not only law firms that do business in…
Two Texas school principals may be liable for violating students’ constitutional rights by confiscating candy cane pens and other Christian materials that the children planned to distribute, a federal appeals…
A six-month suspension has been recommended for an Illinois lawyer who repeatedly criticized a judge, calling him, at one point, a “narcissistic, maniacal mental case” during a telephone conversation with…
Reversing a lower court, a federal appeals panel has given the government a green light to prosecute a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi for posting a juror’s name and publicly available address information…
The former top lawyer for the city of Detroit plans to appeal a judge’s ruling throwing out her suit that claims she was forced to resign because of a “ghetto…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that disclosure of petition signatures is not, as a general matter, a free speech violation, but it could violate the First Amendment in specific…
A Florida lawyer in a dispute with bar officials over his law firm’s tagline may challenge the state’s attorney advertising rules, a federal appeals court has ruled.
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