A University of Florida professor’s emails are public records that trigger the state’s fair reports privilege, a federal judge has ruled in tossing a libel case against the New York…
Mar 1, 2019 9:37 AM CST
A question mark at the end of a tweet by actor James Woods gave him protection in a defamation suit by a Bernie Sanders supporter.
The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit…
Feb 28, 2019 11:55 AM CST
A lawyer and his wife, a judge in New York City, can’t pursue a libel suit against the publisher of the New York Post and two other defendants, according to…
Feb 27, 2019 4:16 PM CST
Mary Beth and John Tinker remain as engaged and committed to young people’s free-expression rights as they were more than 50 years ago when they were suspended from their middle and high schools in Des Moines, Iowa, for wearing black peace armbands.
Feb 25, 2019 6:00 AM CST
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March 4, 1968, in Des Moines, Iowa: Mary Beth Tinker and her brother John display two black armbands, the objects of the U.S. Supreme Court’s agreement to hear arguments on how far public schools may go in limiting the wearing of political symbols. The children, both students at North High School, were suspended from classes along with three other students for wearing the bands to mourn the Vietnam war dead. Bettman via Getty Images
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A lifeguard ignored warnings by three students before discovery of a body at the bottom of a school swimming pool in Chicago, according to documents approved for release by a…
Feb 11, 2019 10:56 AM CST
Updated: Plaintiffs who claim Pacer fees are illegally excessive are getting lots of support in amicus briefs filed in their pending federal appeal.
Feb 4, 2019 8:10 AM CST
The families of shooting victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, are entitled to see business and marketing documents of a radio show perpetrating a theory that the…
Jan 14, 2019 11:47 AM CST
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down an Iowa law that makes it a crime to obtain access to an agricultural production facility under false pretenses.
U.S. District Judge James…
Jan 10, 2019 3:19 PM CST
The parent company of the National Enquirer has admitted it made a $150,000 payment to a woman in concert with the Trump campaign to buy her silence about damaging allegations…
Dec 12, 2018 5:01 PM CST
CNN has dropped its First Amendment lawsuit against President Donald Trump after the administration agreed to restore a press pass for its chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta.
Nov 20, 2018 9:36 AM CST
Updated: CNN and its chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, have sued President Donald Trump for revoking the reporter’s White House press pass after a staffer tried, without success, to…
Nov 13, 2018 12:24 PM CST
A Centennial, Colorado, lawyer who revealed a leaked internal memo on immigration policy says he won’t comply with a subpoena that asks for information about the source of the leak.
…
Oct 22, 2018 9:47 AM CDT
Updated: A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that a tweet by President Donald Trump was “rhetorical hyperbole” that didn’t defame Stormy Daniels.
U.S. District Judge James Otero tossed…
Oct 16, 2018 10:58 AM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the operator of a public-access TV channel is a state actor who can be sued by two producers for an alleged First Amendment violation. The case raises a broader question of whether private property can be a public forum, according to
Howe on the Court and the
Constitution Daily.
Oct 15, 2018 1:50 PM CDT
A writer who was accused of sexual misconduct on a crowdsourced Google spreadsheet of “Shitty Media Men” has sued the creator of the list, along with Jane Doe defendants who…
Oct 12, 2018 3:30 PM CDT