A longtime Rhode Island practitioner who is known as a politically active critic of the state’s top court has filed a federal lawsuit against its chief justice and other defendants.
Saying that a religious leader targeted by some 8,000 tweets and blog posts is a public figure, a federal judge in Maryland yesterday dismissed criminal charges against a former friend…
A Minnesota appeals court has upheld a judge’s order requiring a woman’s onetime boyfriend to remove a blog questioning her relationships and mental health.
Updated: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Secret Service agents who arrested an environmental consultant at a Dick Cheney appearance have immunity from suit.
A federal appeals court on Thursday considered the First Amendment case of Guantanamo’s former chief prosecutor, who was fired by the Library of Congress for his “provocative tone” in two…
A federal judge in Syracuse has found the state of New York violated the First Amendment when it rejected a nonprofit group’s request to sponsor “Choose Life” license plates.
A first-grade teacher in New Jersey is planning an appeal after an administrative law judge ruled she should lose her tenured job because of a Facebook post.
Nixing, at least for now, new Food and Drug Administration rules that would have required tobacco companies to put graphic warning labels prominently on cigarette packages, a federal judge in…
A New Jersey woman can be prosecuted for identity theft for allegedly creating a fake Facebook profile for her ex-boyfriend and posting inflammatory comments about him online, a judge has…
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