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.
Court rules that Florida professors are not mouthpieces for the government and that the ‘Stop WOKE Act’ violates the First…
Chloe Ratner is a political science major at Yale University. Last summer, she worked at the Department of Justice Human…
ACLU Launches Historic Election Safeguarding Effort Ahead of the Midterms WASHINGTON — In 2026, the ACLU will be at the…
ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 6, 2026 — The freedom to criticize law enforcement without fear of punishment is an essential right…
By Dylan Hembrough, The Alestle editor-in-chief The pattern of baselessly discrediting the press to justify refusing to speak to them is familiar to…
A quarter of a millennium ago, the American project began in FIRE’s birthplace of Philadelphia.In a boarding house at Market…
FIRE’s Free Speech Dispatch covers new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers…
They could have died. We forget that now. After appeals to history and self-evident truths and the long train of…
In New Report, ACLU Warns Against Giving Private Companies Centralized Access to Police Data WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties…
Groups Representing Plaintiffs Respond to Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Ruling WASHINGTON — In a major victory, the U.S. Supreme Court…
This post originally appeared in The Nuance, the Reporters Committee’s newsletter on legal and policy issues at the forefront of…
This year, the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary. To commemorate the occasion, FIRE is proud to present the limited…