Key lessons from landmark Tinker ruling still resonate today

Even though the Court decided Tinker nearly 55 years ago, it remains the leading student K-12 decision and lower courts apply the standards from Tinker with regularity.

Civil rights leaders cannot be held liable for acts of rogue protestors

FIRE urges reversal of Fifth Circuit ruling opening protest leader to damages for ‘negligently’ organizing protest.

FIRE Letter to James Madison University, November 9, 2023

FLAG ON THE PLAY: Middle school suspends student for wearing eye black to football game

The school absurdly mischaracterized the student’s non-disruptive display of school spirit as ‘blackface.’

Muirlands Middle School: Student Suspended and Barred from Attending Sporting Events over Eye Black Display

Muirlands Middle School in La Jolla, California, suspended a student and barred him from attending future sporting events after the student wore exaggerated eye black at a football game.

Free speech promises be damned, Brandeis bans Students for Justice in Palestine

In a brazen act of viewpoint discrimination, Brandeis becomes the first private university in the nation to ban an SJP campus chapter.

Rockland Community College Notice of Meeting Outcome of Madeline Ward, November 7, 2023

Santa Monica College: Administrators Influence Cancelation of Theatre Class Play

College cancels play, saying students no longer wanted to perform it.

New president, same old student press struggles at L.A. City College

Student journalists at LACC have been fighting a pattern of administrative overreach for more than a decade.

As campuses reel, a reminder of the First Amendment’s boundaries

The First Amendment protects a vast range of speech and expressive conduct. But it doesn’t protect all speech and expressive conduct.