The First Amendment protects speech that may be unpleasant, including speech we detest. This Court has long recognized that such speech can be vital for our marketplace of ideas often precisely because it is communicated with an intent and in…
Written by Will Creeley from FIRE. Book bans seek to enlist the power of the state to dictate what each of us and our families may or may not read — and thus are sharply at odds with the First…
Woodhull, joined by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), the R Street Institute, and the Wikimedia Foundation, filed an Amicus Brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to halt…
Introduction and Summary of Argument People rely on this Court’s decisions. They rely on the stability of the law, as this Court rarely retrenches on past precedent regarding fundamental rights and equality. Respondents ably demonstrate that bedrock principles of stare…
QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly expanded the “government speech” exception to the First Amendment to include circumstances where the government was not itself a “speaker” and had clearly discriminated against private speech on the basis of content. SUMMARY…
SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT For more than half a century, this Court has repeatedly discussed the importance of academic freedom to our nation as a whole, and specifically within the framework of First Amendment jurisprudence. The Court has highlighted the importance…
QUESTION PRESENTED Whether prohibiting the nonconsensual, public dissemination of private sexual images, which the defendant knew or should have known were intended to remain private, violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. BRIEF IN OPPOSITION The nonconsensual dissemination…