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.
Texas Tech leaders have somehow convinced themselves that race and gender are not legitimate topics to discuss in a psychology…
On Monday, Late Show host Stephen Colbert said CBS refused to allow him to air his interview with Texas Democratic…
Sheridan Macy is a policy analyst at FIRE with a policy background in human rights as well as environmental and…
Core among the rights protected by the First Amendment is the right to demonstrate. No matter what our message is,…
Core among the rights protected by the First Amendment is the right to demonstrate. No matter what our message is,…
With free legal support from an attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, WKBN recently obtained police…
Dr. Harsini is a biomedical and food system scientist, an animal rights activist, and founder of the nonprofit Allied Scholars…
Statement on grand jury’s refusal to indict lawmakers over video urging troops to ignore illegal orders Read the full article…
FIRE’s Free Speech Dispatch covers new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers…
The First Amendment protects the right to discuss, record, and criticize what law enforcement does in public.The federal government strong-armed…
We have a jawboning problem in New York City.Brad Hoylman-Sigal, the president of Manhattan borough, just wrote a letter demanding…
A newly released tranche of New York City Police Department disciplinary records reveals that the agency has dealt with a…