“It is the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its FirstAmendment rights to reject the government’s demands to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum, and the ‘ideology’ of its faculty and students,” Harvard's lawyers
There's a frequent misnomer in FirstAmendment jurisprudence. It's like the FirstAmendment lawyers joke that the most dumb thing we hear is, “Hate speech is not protected by the FirstAmendment.”
On March 27, President Trump wrote on Truth Social that the judge's ruling imperils his FirstAmendment rights.
"[The judge] is suffering from an acute case of Trump Derangement Syndrome," he wrote.
"[I]n light of the FirstAmendment injury and harm to patient care that will occur absent an injunction, the public interest does not favor staying relief," Talwani wrote.
Allen said he is unsure how the party could enforce its demand that Duncan cease referring to himself as a "Republican," given the free speech rights afforded under The FirstAmendment.
Missouri—whether the federal government violated the FirstAmendment through its vast censorship apparatus—is straightforward, and four federal judges have found that it clearly did.
The Supreme Court is allowing a lower court decision that strips Davis of her immunity as a government official and of her FirstAmendment-based religious expression defense, he said.
“At this time, it is our understanding that Professor Caravello was peacefully participating in a protest—an act protected under the FirstAmendment and a right guaranteed to all Americans.
While the petition has not been publicly released, a copy obtained by The Georgetown Voice and related court filings characterize government actions against Suri as arbitrary and capricious, and as constituting a violation of his FirstAmendment right
The 1939 Social Security Amendments
Even before the first monthly benefits were paid in 1940, these amendments added many provisions to the original law.
Chen's "need for the requested evidence overcomes Herridge’s qualified FirstAmendment privilege."
A number of press freedom groups have decried the rulings.
Taylor, involved parents arguing that the school district has violated the FirstAmendment by compelling their children’s participation in instruction on gender and sexuality.
Constitution guarantees the fundamental right to religious liberty through the FirstAmendment. But recent government policies have threatened this right, it said.
Prosecutors said Mackey spread disinformation and infringed on the right to vote, while defense lawyers argued that the memes were jokes that were protected by the FirstAmendment.
She alleged that officers were deploying chemical agents and physical force against protestors and said there was a “pattern of escalating aggression” from ICE agents against demonstrators exercising their FirstAmendment rights.