Plaintiff filed suit against defendants, alleging the North Dakota bar’s use of his compulsory bar dues to oppose a state ballot measure he supported violated his First Amendment rights. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. American Federation ...

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Where the owners of a video-production business, who sought to produce wedding video but only of opposite-sex couples in accordance with their religious beliefs, sued Minnesota seeking injunctive relief preventing the state from enforcing anti-discrimination provisions of the Minnesota Human ...

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A federal appeals court has reinstated a Minnesota couple’s lawsuit challenging portions of the state’s human rights act which they say would require them to produce wedding videos for same-sex couples, in violation of their free-speech rights. Missouri doesn’t have ...

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Where an adult-oriented business challenged the constitutionality of an Arkansas zoning law that prevented it from opening within 1,000 feet of schools and places frequented by children, the business did not engage in speech and so could not state a ...

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Take the post down. Put it back up. Stop policing speech. Start silencing extremists. That’s just a sampling of the intense, often contradictory demands facing tech companies and their social media platforms as they try to oversee internet content without ...

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Take the post down. Put it back up. Stop policing speech. Start silencing extremists. That’s just a sampling of the intense, often contradictory demands facing tech companies and their social media platforms as they try to oversee internet content without ...

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A federal judge ruled Aug. 16 that a Missouri state representative violated the First Amendment by blocking a Columbia attorney on Twitter. U.S. District Judge Brian C. Wimes issued a permanent injunction barring state Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch, R-Hallsville, from ...

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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt this week withdrew a legal brief he filed in a defamation lawsuit arguing the First Amendment allows him to withhold some public records concerning private citizens that were requested by the plaintiff’s attorney. Schmidt originally ...

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Where plaintiff, who was arrested at a law school lecture, brought civil-rights claims against officers and university defendants including an alleged violation of his First Amendment right to record interactions between the public and police, the district court’s adverse grant ...

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Where appellant challenged an adverse grant of summary judgment against him on his claims of First and Fourth Amendment violations, the judgment is affirmed because the appellant showed no basis for reversal. Judgment is affirmed. Nibeck v. Marion Police Department ...

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  Where a terminated deputy sued his employer for First Amendment retaliation, the denial of summary judgment to the defendant sheriff  is reversed and remanded because the evidence showed that the defendant could have reasonably believed that the plaintiff’s speech ...

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