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The lawsuit referenced an alleged list of 235 terms that "serve as proxies for the disfavored viewpoints" to screen existing grants or applications.

Federal agents showed up at the Rochester, N.Y., home of a man who had sent a caustic email to an immigration official and threatened him with prosecution.

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A federal judge found that the state's restrictions on AI-generated political speech likely violate the First Amendment.

ABC filed an opposition to the Federal Communications Commission's motion to dismiss its First Amendment lawsuit Thursday, calling the commission's early license renewal process a "broadcaster death penalty.

In a pair of cases heard this month, the Supreme Court has faced collisions between the First Amendment’s right to speech and the unprecedented dangers presented by the internet and social media. The justices must decide whether to give legislatures the ...

In his decision, Judge John Z. Lee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, referred to two U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 1969 and 2002. The first says people have the right to keep obscenity in the privacy of their homes and the second says ...

"The First Amendment protects judgments about both what to say and how to say it, including whether individual messages fit together in a specific compilation," the dean of UC Berkeley Law and other professors argue to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

That order required LinkedIn to turn over information about specific people’s use of the service, which can reveal connections between users. But a search warrant would typically be required before law enforcement could see the content of their communications.It’s unclear whether such warrants have been sought or obtained in this investigation.