1st Amendment Tag

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...

American Bar Association Files Brief Supporting Disciplining Lawyers Who Offend Protected Groups

Posted by Johanna Markind on September 29, 2022 27 Comments

ABA files amicus brief in pending case testing legality of a Pennsylvania professional conduct rule muzzling lawyers’ supposedly offensive speech, clearly intended to mandate adherence to leftist race and other politics....

Big Court Win For Parents’ Right To Attend And Speak Out At School Board Meetings

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 21, 2022 37 Comments

Court grants TRO in favor of Shawn McBreairty: "it is hard to shake the sense that the School Board is restricting the speech because the Board disagrees with both Mr. McBreairty’s opinions and the unpleasantness that accompanies them ...

Praying Coach Vindicated at SCOTUS in Another Big Religious Freedom Win

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2022 24 Comments

Gorsuch for the 6-3 Majority: "Joseph Kennedy lost his job as a high school football coach because he knelt at midfield after games to offer a quiet prayer of thanks...

Religious Liberty Win – Supreme Court Strikes Maine Law That Funded Secular But Not Religious Private Education

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 21, 2022 69 Comments

Ruling: The state does not have to fund private education, but once it decides to fund private education, it can't discriminate against religious private schools. Let the hysterical overreactions begin!...

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Renames Itself, Will Broaden Focus

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 08, 2022 5 Comments

“To say the least, we have not solved the campus free-speech problem, but we started to realize if we wanted to save free speech on campus we have to start earlier and we have to do things not on campus”...

Now I’ve Gone and Done It – I Offered An Opinion on The Depp-Heard Trial

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2022 51 Comments

On potential liability of The Washington Post. Oops, I did it again. I offered a second opinion, on the role of the ACLU....

U. Central Florida Prof. Charles Negy, Fired After Tweeting “Black Privilege is Real,” Ordered Reinstated With Tenure and Back Pay

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2022 47 Comments

Arbitrator finds no "just cause" for termination. Negy: "UCF Administrators (and all university administrators) need to get the message that they cannot simply 'purge' or even discipline professors who do not conform to the DEI ideology that they are imposing on entire university campuses."...

U. Central Florida “Discriminatory-Harassment Policy Likely Violates The First Amendment” Rules Federal Appeals Court

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2022 15 Comments

"it is an overbroad and content- and view-point-based regulation of constitutionally protected expression"...

Project Veritas: DOJ Obtained Emails From Microsoft Using Secret Warrants Not Disclosed to Court

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 23, 2022 27 Comments

Last fall, Project Veritas was raided by the FBI, which collected various documents and devices. Then things got worse. Despite a judge's ruling, the Department of Justice went to multiple magistrates and obtained secret warrants to collect communications between multiple journalists from Microsoft. Do you remember how people on the left scoffed at the idea of the Deep State? What would you call this?

Sarah Palin v. NY Times VERDICT Watch: Judge Will Dismiss Case After Jury Reaches Verdict

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 14, 2022 52 Comments

The jury in the case of Sarah Palin v. The New York Times is in the hands of the jury. We will report as soon as a verdict is reached. UPDATE 3:27 P.M.: Judge Rakoff will dismiss the case after the jury reaches a verdict. https://twitter.com/davidfolkenflik/status/1493320498935119882

Sarah Palin v. NY Times VERDICT Watch – UPDATE – Jury Breaks For Day, Returns Monday

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 11, 2022 15 Comments

The jury in the case of Sarah Palin v. The New York Times is in the hands of the jury. We will report as soon as a verdict is reached.

UIC Law Prof. Jason Kilborn Sues After University Tried To Force Him Into Humiliating Racial Reeducation Program

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2022 14 Comments

Used letters "N" and "B" on exam hypo about employment discrimination, leading to campaign to fire him. The FIRE notes: "In a stunning display of unintended irony, the individualized training materials [UIC tried to force on Kilborn] include the same redacted slur that Kilborn used in his test question." ...

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