Across public high schools this year, students have walked out of class to protest federal immigration enforcement policies. Administrators have responded with warnings, suspensions, and reminders tha...

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

If there’s one arena where President Trump has proven relentless, it’s the battle over public narrative. In The Art of the Deal , he writes: “When people treat me badly or unfairly or try to take adv...

Judge convicts commissioner of accounts for rejecting a political rival's request for records of his cellphone and social media messages

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In August of 2024, a group of publishers, students, parents, and best-selling authors including Velshi Banned Book Club vets like Julia Alvarez, Laurie Halse Anderson, Jodi Picoult, and Angie Thomas filed a lawsuit against Florida for book banning provisions within House Bill 10-69, which saw 700+ beloved works of literature removed from shelves in the state. And this week, “we pushed back, and we won,” says author Angie Thomas. The freedom to read was upheld. “None of these books are obscene” wrote the judge in a 50-page decision. Books "are a gateway" to empathy, says Thomas. "They allow us to step into lives unlike our own.”

The judge noted some books are removed because of a single sentence without the whole work being taken into context.

Siding with publishers and authors, a federal judge Wednesday ruled that a key part of a 2023 Florida law that has led to books being removed from school library shelves is “overbroad and unconstituti...

Cases winding through courts offer hope that documents could be released even if justice department declines

While Republicans have fled Washington in hopes that the Epstein scandal goes away, attorney Dan Novack’s FOIA battle with the F.B.I. has been wending its way through the courts. This fall, we may fin...

An eight-year legal battle for the Epstein files uncovers the Justice Department’s shifting, contradictory legal arguments.

"Americans deserve to know what happened" in Jeffrey Epstein's investigation, an attorney who helped sue the FBI told Newsweek.

The order prohibits the school board from removing books “because the district disagrees with the views expressed therein or merely to further their preferred political or religious orthodoxy.”

While their rival outlets cut deals, The New York Times spent $10.8 million on litigation costs against AI companies in 2024 alone. 14 months after their initial Complaint and still months away from a...

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Amanda Jones, a Louisiana librarian who advocated to keep LGBTQ+ books on her shelves, found herself in the “groomer” crosshairs. The result? A First Amendment smackdown between Jones and Dan Kleinman...

PEN America has documented nearly 16,000 book bans in public schools nationwide since 2021.

You know how rap battles go. One diss begets another. Winner gets bragging rights and crowds singing along to their song . Loser gets clowned on the interne t and retains expensive lawyers. by O...

Podcast · Dan Novack, Ari Cohn, Tanvi Valsangikar · SLANDERTOWN is a podcast that dives into First Amendment slugfests. No beef too small, no lawsuit too petty.

There’s antisemitism, and then there’s Nazism. At least that’s what one court recently concluded. By Ojasvinee Singh

It Ends with Us , a film based on the novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover, premiered in August 2024 to commercial success. However, the more interesting drama, especially for sicko lawyers d...

FIRE will defend veteran Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer against a lawsuit from President-elect Donald Trump that threatens Americans’ First Amendment right to speak on core political issues.