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, 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…
On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced that it would require foreign tourists to the United States to provide five years…
Monica Meeks is a combat veteran and lifelong public servant fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk from her personal Facebook shortly…
Imagine wearing an “I Voted” sticker to class and having the school investigate you for it. Or handing out pocket…
More than two decades after the mysterious death of federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna, a Pennsylvania judge has unsealed an autopsy…
On Thursday, The New York Times, represented by Gibson Dunn, filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon over its new press access policy.…