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.
FIRE’s Free Speech Dispatch covers new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers…
Last night, FIRE filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. District Court of Northern California arguing the Department of War’s…
Raeba Pradhan is a FIRE program associate for legislative and policy.On Feb. 12, a group of Maryland legislators introduced HB 1322,…
When the Trump administration demanded changes to Anthropic’s AI system and backed it up with a threat to seize the…
“They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school,” associate biology professor Allyson Friedman said during a public Zoom…
Atheist and Kurdish-Armenian asylum seeker Hamit Coskun has emerged triumphant from a year-long legal battle after he burned a Quran in…
An Indiana judge has ruled that the Indiana Department of Correction violated the state public records law when it refused…
Hamit Coskun secures important victory against UK prosecutors, but threats to free expression linger
Atheist and Kurdish-Armenian asylum seeker Hamit Coskun has emerged triumphant from a year-long legal battle after he burned a Quran in…
This column was originally published in the Hoosier State Press Association’s March 2026 newsletter. Every year, journalists, lawmakers, and freedom…
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is expanding its Local Legal Initiative to Louisiana, Mississippi, Minnesota, and Michigan…
It’s like clockwork. War breaks out. Then come the calls for censorship.After the war with Iran began over the weekend,…
This essay was originally published in The Dispatch on Feb. 26, 2026.“The FTC is not the speech police,” FTC Chairman…