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Supreme Court Strikes Down California Policy Forcing Disclosure Of Non-Profit Donors To State Regulators

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 01, 2021 25 Comments

In an Opinion issued today, the Supreme Court has stricken a California policy requiring disclosure of large non-profit donor information to state regulators. The case establishes the important principle that if you want to make, ahem, large donations to organizations like the Legal Insurrection Foundation,...

Federal Judge Halts Florida Law Taking On Big Social Media

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2021 43 Comments

Our prediction when the law was signed still holds true: "This is a dramatic act, but it’s unlikely to survive. You’re still on your own."...

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

Colorado Judge Fines Masterpiece Cakeshop For Refusing To Bake Gender Transition Cake

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 17, 2021 148 Comments

Attorney vows appeal: "Jack Phillips serves all people but shouldn’t be forced to create custom cakes with messages that violate his conscience." In the meantime, Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop have to bake the cake, or risk further lawsuits and fines....

Mitch McConnell Did The Nation A Great Favor By Keeping Merrick Garland Off The Supreme Court

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2021 71 Comments

If there were a scintilla of doubt that McConnell did the nation a great favor, that doubt should have been put to rest during Garland's June 15, 2021, speech on "Violent Extremism and Domestic Terrorism." The ideological purge will make Lois Lerner blush....

Virginia Teacher Sues Over Suspension For Publicly Opposing Proposed “Preferred Pronoun” Policy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2021 35 Comments

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Law Fighting Big Tech Censorship

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2021 33 Comments

This is a dramatic act, but it's unlikely to survive legal challenges. You're still on your own....

Supreme Court lifts California’s COVID ban on household religious gatherings

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 11, 2021 17 Comments

This February, Professor Jacobson reported that the U.S. Supreme Court issued an Order partially enjoining California’s total ban on indoor church services, but leaving in place restrictions on “singing and chanting” during services.

Professor Who Refused To Obey “Preferred Pronouns” Can Continue Lawsuit, Appeals Court Rules

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2021 29 Comments

The level of speech control on campuses in mind-numbing. If you've followed the dozens, maybe hundreds, of cases and incidents we've covered in the last decade, you'd know that campuses are the most intolerant places in the country, though corporations are catching up quickly.

Masterpiece Cakeshop On Trial For Refusing To Bake A “Transition” Cake

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2021 64 Comments

Masterpiece Cake Shop famously won a U.S. Supreme Court case over it's owner Jack Phillips' refusal to bake a cake that celebrated a same-sex marriage. Phillips said while he would sell anyone a cake, requiring him to put lettering on it celebrating the marriage violated his religious beliefs and was unconstitutional.

Student Lawsuit: U. Central Florida Treatment of Prof. Charles Negy Chilled Campus Free Speech

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2021 15 Comments

The University of Central Florida has been in the news for its punitive actions against Professor Charles Negy after he tweeted opinions that went contrary to campus and social justice politics. We have covered the Negy case extensively:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyGQttLDjo

Court denies Parler request for injunction against Amazon Web Services

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2021 53 Comments

Amazon Web Services took down Parler from its cloud service, allegedly based on threats on the Parler platform, mirroring simultaneous actions by Google and Apple to remove the Parler App.

Prof. Charles Negy: Investigative Report is “UCF’s attempt to justify getting rid of me because I have become a political liability”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 20, 2021 38 Comments

We previously reported on the targeting of University of Central Florida Professor Charles Negy over his tweets in early June 2020 questioning claims of ‘systemic racism’ and asserting ‘black privilege is real.’ That targeting by students, alumni, and other activists, was joined by the UCF administration, including newly-installed President Alexander Cartwright, who participated in the protests against Prof. Negy.

American Thinker disables its comment section

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2021 90 Comments

The demise of comment sections has been happening for a decade.

https://www.facebook.com/XavierBecerra/videos/10154214164472230/

Biden To Nominate Anti-2A, Pro-Abortion Extremist Xavier Becerra For HHS Secretary

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on December 07, 2020 17 Comments

Former vice president Joe Biden's calls for "unity" in the wake of the still unresolved 2020 presidential election are being met with growing skepticism due to his decidedly divisive staffing and cabinet picks.

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Big Student Free Speech Victory in 5th Circuit Against U Texas Speech Policies

Posted by Leah M. Baldacci, Esq. on October 29, 2020 20 Comments

In a victory for campus free speech at the University of Texas, with national implications, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just issued its decision in favor of plaintiff Speech First, Inc.

Legal Insurrection and Judicial Watch investigate attacks on UCF Prof. Charles Negy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 16, 2020 44 Comments

Charles Negy is the University of Central Florida professor who found himself in the crosshairs of online and street mobs demanding his termination after early June 2020 tweets disputing the concept of "systemic racism" and asserting that "black privilege is real."

Court: Sarah Palin libel lawsuit against NY Times to go to trial

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2020 27 Comments

The last we checked in on Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the NY Times over a false editorial blaming an electoral map used by Palin for the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords by Jared Loughner. As we reported at the time of the shooting, there was no connection, it was a fabrication of left-wing bloggers that made its way into the mainstream.

The administrative torment of UCF Prof. Charles Negy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2020 54 Comments

I had heard of Charles Negy, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Central Florida (UCF). What I heard seemed like a particularly egregious example of cancel culture that is purging academia and imposing uniformity of opinion, particularly with regard to the Black Lives Matter movement. Having looked into it more, it's worse than I realized.

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