Delaware residents looking to enforce the divide between church and state have sued their local county council, aiming to end its practice of beginning each public meeting with the Lord’s…
“There is much irony,” wrote U.S. District Judge Robert E. Blackburn, “that the core values of our system of governance, which our military men and women served to defend with their very lives, are here invoked to protect false claims of entitlement.” Illustration by Viktor Koen
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Apparently rejecting a New Mexico man’s arguments that he has a free-speech right to put up a billboard in Alamogordo’s main thoroughfare concerning his views on abortion, a state-court judge…
A law that bars pharmacies from selling prescription information to drug marketers violates the constitutional right to free speech, the U.S. Supreme Court has held.
A third-year law student at the University of La Verne who was suspended for using an online contract in her drafting class has lost an appeal in state court.
A federal appeals court has ruled on behalf of students disciplined for creating fake MySpace profiles that portrayed their principals as a heavy drinker in one case and a sex…
Not every “self-appointed newsperson” is a journalist, for the purpose of applying New Jersey’s shield law protecting journalists from revealing their sources, the state supreme court ruled today.
A jilted boyfriend’s free speech rights are pitted against his one-time girlfriend’s privacy rights in a court battle over a billboard with an anti-abortion message.
A federal appeals court has resurrected a Tennessee inmate’s claim that he should be allowed to receive hate-filled white supremacist material in prison because it is part of his religion.
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