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.
Last year, the Satanic Temple of New Hampshire put up a Baphomet statue (a part-human, part-goat satanic deity) in front…
Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly sent a memo two weeks ago indicating how the federal government intends to target “domestic…
NASHVILLE, Dec. 17, 2025 — On Sept. 21, the police came for Larry Bushart. They handcuffed him and hauled him…
The City Club of Cleveland’s creed, written in 1912, begins, “I hail and harbor and hear persons of every belief…
The months since Charlie Kirk’s murder on Utah Valley University’s campus in September have seen a deluge of firings and suspensions…
Last year, FIRE launched the Free Speech Dispatch, a regular series covering new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the…
Defending the rights of students and faculty to speak freely has been part and parcel of FIRE’s mission for 26…
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16, 2025 — The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression reports a record number of campus incidents involving attempts…
The threats to press freedom that dominated headlines in 2025 demonstrated an important lesson about this fragile First Amendment right:…
In a major broadside against the First Amendment, public university systems in Texas are ordering faculty to watch what they…
Changes at the Pentagon, Charlie Kirk and cancel culture, free speech and misinformation, globalized censorship, Indiana University, how to support…
Drag shows are inherently expressive and protected under the First Amendment. That’s what a panel of the U.S. Court of…