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.
Free Speech Dispatch covers censorship trends and challenges around the world. If you want to know where free expression is under…
In the United States, campus speakers, online expression, blockbuster movies, and printed books are all, of course, protected by the…
FIRE challenged the two statutes the administration weaponized to try and deport Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa ÖztürkDecision is the first…
FIRE challenged the two statutes the administration weaponized to try and deport Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa ÖztürkDecision is the first…
Meta agreed on Wednesday to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle lawsuits brought by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general…
Documents obtained by The Guardian and The Associated Press indicate that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied to Congress when he…
More than 50 years ago, the framers of the Montana Constitution made a commitment that Indigenous cultural identity would be…
How many times can you prosecute blasphemous speech under other laws until you effectively have a blasphemy law?This isn’t just…
**Editor’s note: This episode was recorded before Meta settled a social media addiction trial with a coalition of state attorneys…
At the height of World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower didn’t want the military’s independent newspaper to become a…
Across the country, school libraries have become a recurring front in political and cultural fights, with controversial books drawing objections…
A Nebraska school district censored a student newspaper over an anti-ICE cartoon. After FIRE objected, the district adopted a new…