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Florida and Texas sought to prevent social media companies from deciding which posts can be promoted, demoted or blocked. The Supreme Court said the tech companies can moderate as they please.
In pleading guilty to one count under the US Espionage Act as part of a plea deal, the WikiLeaks founder’s case has left some large legal concepts unresolved.
More than 2,000 letters between the two founders are available online. Many attest to their deep commitment to religious freedom.
It’s now clear that tensions in academia regarding concerns about Israel’s relationship with the Palestinian people aren’t limited to campus protests.
The Supreme Court’s approach toward religion in schools has been shifting, creating uncertainty about legislation such as Louisiana’s.
The law forcing TikTok to be sold or banned is meant to protect Americans from Chinese government influence and privacy intrusions. But does it undermine a bedrock American principle?
In 1922, Oregon voters approved an initiative to require public school for most students ages 8-16 − but it didn’t hold up in court.
These cases have asked the justices to consider how to apply some of the most sweeping constitutional protections – those of free speech – to an extremely complex online communication environment.
Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.
A college junior who has gained a following by sharing high-profile people’s private flight information says that he is sharing public information. Others, like Taylor Swift, say that he is stalking.
Many countries wrestle with whether to include any kind of education about religion in public school lessons, and each one takes its own approach.
University codes of conduct support their mission to educate. But it’s not easy to balance those codes with the values of free speech, as the resignation of a prominent university president shows.
The first female justice on the Supreme Court was also the last justice to have served as an elected official. And her contributions to the court reflected her political experience and pragmatism.
The Supreme Court will hear five cases this term that will examine the nature of online discussion spaces run by social media platforms.
Does Louisiana’s requirement for public schools to post ‘In God We Trust’ in all classrooms violate the doctrine of separation of church and state? A legal scholar weighs in.
Recent Supreme Court decisions have signaled a shift in how the country’s highest court interprets the limits on religion in schools.
Using the rhetoric of the First Amendment, a string of US Supreme Court cases has allowed members of some religious groups to limit the freedoms of other Americans.
Current precedent relies on a 1982 case in which five justices generally agreed there were limits on a school’s power to ban books, but they didn’t agree on why.
The changes wrought by the new conservative majority in the US Supreme Court are revolutionary.
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Professor Emeritus of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University
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Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, University of Florida
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University
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Dean of Economics, Politics & History, The University of Austin
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Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Professor of Higher Education, University of Kentucky
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Professor of Media Ethics and Law, University of Minnesota
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Lecturer, School of Law, University of Aberdeen
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Director of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, University of Florida
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Distinguished Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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Professor Emeritus of Government, Wesleyan University
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Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Religion, Law & Democracy, Willamette University
