Freedom IndexLegal & Courts
Legal & Courts tracks major cases, rulings, and legislative battles impacting freedom of speech and digital rights. Covering court decisions, lawsuits, and evolving laws, this category provides insights into the legal frameworks shaping expression and censorship around the world.
In 1999, a college dropout named Shawn Fanning and his friend Sean Parker released a piece of software called Napster…
Marietta Catsambas has joined the Reporters Committee as a staff attorney leading the organization’s robust amicus practice, a role in…
In response to the decision by the U.S. Department of Justice to withdraw subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters…
Max Friedman is a rising third-year law student at the University of Memphis.Censorship in the name of combating antisemitism has…
Heather St. Amand remembers exactly the day her daughter, Isabelle, came into the world. It was 10:15 p.m. when her…
Athena Rem is a rising junior at the University of California, Los Angeles.Televangelist Jerry Falwell once confessed in an interview…
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Athena Rem is a rising junior at the University of California, Los Angeles.When Bud Selig famously wrote that “baseball is a…
Amuda Balu is a rising senior at the University of Texas at Austin where she studies government.“The first thing to…
Last summer, a mass shooting outside a nightclub in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, wounded four women and rattled the local community. In…
Department of Education Backs Down on Unlawful Directive Targeting Educational Equity CONCORD, N.H. – In a victory for academic freedom…
This is part of a weekly series on AI and free speech.The internet is one of the main places where…