A Justice Department lawyer advised the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that it had no legal authority to block transmission of a speech by Leon Trotsky.
A federal appeals court is allowing a former college athlete to pursue a right-of-publicity lawsuit against a video game maker that used an avatar with his…
A federal judge in Michigan has dismissed a free-speech suit filed by an Oakland University student who was banned from campus for several semesters after writing an…
The Kentucky Attorney General’s office says one of its lawyers “inadvertently” used its official letterhead when he sent a cease-and-desist letter to a nationally syndicated parenting columnist.
A wide swath of interest groups, ranging from Greenpeace to gun rights advocates, have joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a coalition of 19 organizations in filing a legal challenge…
Updated: Asiana Airlines has announced it will not sue a California television station that broadcast fake names of the pilots in the crash of Flight 214 that killed three passengers.
Bailed out by an anonymous donor, after spending months in jail in lieu of posting $500,000 bond over a comment he posted on Facebook about a school shooting, a Texas…
The American Atheists unveiled a courthouse monument in Florida’s Bradford County on Saturday, erected in a “free speech zone” near a Ten Commandments monument.
A protester who wrote critical messages and drew a picture of an octopus grabbing money in water-soluble chalk on the sidewalk outside several branches of a major bank has been…
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of a Massachusetts law that bars people from entering 35-foot buffer zones around abortion clinics, unless they are employees or agents of…
A New York-based appeals court has upheld the conviction of an Internet radio host for a blog rant in which he said three federal appeals judges deserved to die.
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