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.
Over the past several years, some politicians have tried to ban or limit discussion of controversial ideas in higher education,…
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has ordered the state Department of Education to provide Spotlight PA with internal Penn State…
This essay was originally published in The New York Times on Sept. 23, 2025.If you’re a free-speech lawyer, you face…
Indiana University banned its student newspaper from printing just days before homecoming weekend — after firing the paper’s advisor when…
Last year, FIRE launched the Free Speech Dispatch, a regular series covering new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around…
In August, FIRE sued Secretary of State Marco Rubio for violating the First Amendment. Since March, Rubio and the Trump administration had…
Kris Cundiff, an attorney from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, is representing the Indiana Daily Student’s editors-in-chief…
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 20, 2025 — A former doctoral conducting student at the Eastman School of Music who was silenced after…
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Chiles v. Salazar, a First Amendment challenge to Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy”…
Last week, authorities in England banned fans of Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending the team’s November 6 match…
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press raised more than $2 million to support its mission to provide free…
TAKE ACTIONOn Oct. 14, Indiana University abruptly fired Director of Student Media Jim Rodenbush after he refused to enforce unconstitutional content…