The court went on to add that “the FirstAmendment ‘doubly protects religious speech.’”
“These FirstAmendment protections extend to elementary school students expressing their sincere religious beliefs through voluntary clubs.
Kelly's statements "are entitled to FirstAmendment protection because they were neither 'directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action' nor 'likely to incite or produce such action,'" the legal complaint added, quoting from a previous court
The SFPD said officers began monitoring the assembly near Sansome and Washington streets at about 7 p.m. on June 8 as protesters engaged in "FirstAmendment activity."
One cannot argue that the FirstAmendment protects malicious lying against innocent victims any more than one would propose that the Second Amendment protects your right to shoot whomever you please, just to hurt him.
Goode-Trufant responded: “I think that the corporation counsel's obligation is to make certain that we are serving justice and following the rule of law, and so I support the FirstAmendment in that situation.”
They argue that his arrest and the ongoing effort to deport him are a violation of his FirstAmendment rights.
Khalil, 30, a Syrian national of Palestinian descent, recently graduated from Columbia University's master's program.
A federal judge later reversed the funding freeze, ruling that the government violated the FirstAmendment through its efforts to combat anti-Semitism. The Justice Department appealed the decision in December 2025.
During the oral argument on Dec. 9, NRSC attorney Noel Francisco said “the coordinated party spending limits are at war with this court’s recent FirstAmendment cases.”
First Choice filed suit to block the subpoena, alleging that New Jersey was violating its FirstAmendment rights, since the investigation was politically motivated.
Salazar, holding that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, as applied to a Christian counselor’s talk therapy, regulated speech based on viewpoint and therefore warranted heightened FirstAmendment scrutiny.
Groups that challenged the law are unlikely to succeed in their claims that the statute infringes on their FirstAmendment rights, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled.
McMahon said the terminations violated the FirstAmendment right to free speech and the Fifth Amendment, which confers equal protection.
She also ruled that DOGE did not have the legal authority to terminate the grants.
Disney counters, arguing that while the FirstAmendment gives Ms. Carano the right to free speech, it equally gives the studio the right not to associate with that speech.
"Plaintiffs claimed that these policies violated their rights under the Free Exercise Clause of the FirstAmendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The district is alleged to have violated the Free Speech, Establishment, and Free Exercise clauses of the FirstAmendment to the United States Constitution, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and California state law.
According to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—which tracks issues affecting FirstAmendment freedoms as they relate to members of the media—the raid on Natanson’s home marks the first time in U.S. history that the Department of Justice