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Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Christian Web Designer Who Refused to Design Sites for Gay Weddings

Posted by Terrance Kible on June 30, 2023 59 Comments

"The framers designed the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to protect the 'freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think.'"...

https://twitter.com/kelly_laco/status/1502034502473846794

Disney sues DeSantis and Florida over Reedy Creek District Control

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2023 39 Comments

Disney alleges DeSantis' attempts to wrestle back control of Disney's unusual state-within-a-state arrangement is "a targeted campaign of government retaliation—orchestrated at every step by Governor DeSantis as punishment for Disney’s protected speech...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anduXwcSIrc

Fox News Settles Dominion Voting Systems Defamation Lawsuit for $787 Million

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2023 171 Comments

Fox News statement: "We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false. This settlement reflects FOX’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards."...

“Charles Negy, in many ways, is the poster child for what goes wrong when DEI takes over a campus”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2023 21 Comments

My interview on Fox News Digital: "This is really one of the worst examples I've seen where a university, to placate the mob and also because they don't like his opinions, really used the entire machinery of a major public university and taxpayer funding to...

Prof. Charles Negy, Investigated and Fired After Tweets Disputing Systemic Racism, Files Federal Lawsuit Against U. Central Florida

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2023 29 Comments

Negy, who was reinstated after an arbitrator ruled in his favor, alleges constitutional and tort claims for harm Negy suffered "for nearly two years at the hands of UCF administrators who, because they disliked his political views, treated him as less than human." ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9NUFo75lqw

Arkansas ‘Anti-BDS’ Statute To Remain, SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Challenge

Posted by Jane Coleman on February 21, 2023 40 Comments

Refused to hear an appeal from an Eighth Circuit ruling upholding the law, the only circuit-level court to have addressed the merits of the anti-Israel-boycott statutes....

Judge Throws Out NY Online “Hate Speech” Law That Would Have Led To Closure Of Most Comment Sections

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2023 60 Comments

The law would have turned websites into speech police enforcing government views of "hate speech." Jonathan Turley: "Albany has become a type of perpetual motion machine of unconstitutional excesses."...

U Texas Prof Sues After Alleged “Campaign to Silence” Him For Criticizing University

Posted by James Nault on February 12, 2023 14 Comments

UT Allegedly Threatens and Retaliates Against Professor Richard Lowery, UT Administration Critic and Fighter Against the University's CRT and DEI Initiatives...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLMBT6zNgN8

Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips Loses Appeal Over Transgender Transition Celebration Cake

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2023 97 Comments

It's never really over in the culture war, is it? Perhaps on a second trip to the U.S. Supreme Court we will finally get a ruling on the merits of whether anti-discrimination laws can be used to compel speech with which the speaker disagrees on...

New Scholarly Analysis Debunks Anti-Israel Boycotters’ Claim First Amendment Protects “Right” to Violate Anti-BDS Laws

Posted by Johanna Markind on January 19, 2023 13 Comments

States historically regulated discriminatory boycotts as economic activity, says new article....

DeSantis Permitted To Gather Data On “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” in Public Universities, Judge Rules

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2023 23 Comments

Looks like DeSantis is gathering info to gut the DEI bureaucracy, which could achieve the goals of The Stop Woke Act without dictating what professors can say or teach, and possibly insulating the reforms from the type of judicial injunction already granted....

Yeshiva University Must Recognize LGBTQ Club, Appeals Court Rules

Posted by Jane Coleman on December 16, 2022 24 Comments

Rejects Yeshiva's claim to be an exempt "religious corporation" and rejects Yeshiva's 1st Amendment claim: "Providing the Pride Alliance with full and equal access to public accommodations does not intrude on Yeshiva’s asserted right “to decide matters ‘of faith and doctrine.’"...

Legal Insurrection Foundation Files Brief Opposing Pennsylvania Attempt To Punish Lawyer Speech It Deems “Discriminatory” or “Harassing”

Posted by Johanna Markind on October 28, 2022 6 Comments

PA’s Disciplinary Board appealed to Third Circuit after district court enjoined Rule 8.4(g) as an unconstitutional encroachment on free speech....

American Medical Association Wants DOJ To Investigate Opposition To Childhood Gender Surgery, 13 State AGs Push Back

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 16, 2022 50 Comments

Five Republican Senators also fired off a letter to Garland with some very pointed questions....

Providence (RI) Schools Bow To Radical Mob, Remove Whistleblower Ramona Bessinger From Teaching Position

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 08, 2022 84 Comments

The Ramona Bessinger story is beginning to remind me of the Gibson's Bakery story.

Judicial Watch Demands Providence (RI) Schools Cease and Desist “Retaliation and Harassment” Of Ramona Bessinger

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2022 28 Comments

On day of organized protest against Bessinger at school, JW writes to Superintendent: "Ms. Bessinger has been subjected to a continuing campaign of retaliation and harassment related to her protected First Amendment expression," we call on district to "immediately put an end to the inappropriate...

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