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.
A quarter of a millennium ago, the American project began in FIRE’s birthplace of Philadelphia.In a boarding house at Market…
FIRE’s Free Speech Dispatch covers new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers…
They could have died. We forget that now. After appeals to history and self-evident truths and the long train of…
In New Report, ACLU Warns Against Giving Private Companies Centralized Access to Police Data WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties…
Groups Representing Plaintiffs Respond to Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Ruling WASHINGTON — In a major victory, the U.S. Supreme Court…
This post originally appeared in The Nuance, the Reporters Committee’s newsletter on legal and policy issues at the forefront of…
This year, the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary. To commemorate the occasion, FIRE is proud to present the limited…
The country’s 250th anniversary of independence is a moment not only for commemoration, but for reckoning. We are living through…
Many, many boards for school districts, community colleges, and public universities, and at least one state, have formal policies that…
Immigrants’ Rights Advocates Applaud Permanent Closure of Everglades Detention Center, Cruelly Dubbed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ MIAMI — Immigrants’ rights advocates applaud…
Get your ticketsAmerica’s 250th deserves more than fireworks. It deserves a celebration of the right to free speech that has…
Journalist Michael Balter had been covering the Croton-Harmon Union Free School District for several months when school officials went silent…