■ A female protester tear-gassed by St. Louis SWAT team officers can continue her First Amendment civil rights lawsuit, after a federal appeals court decision.
■ The Hunter Biden laptop controversy is back but Twitter’s suppression of the story was not a violation of the First Amendment, Insider’s Kelsey Vlamis has asserted.
■ “Divisive concepts” legislation could have a chilling effect on free expression in schools, explains Free Speech Center’s Ken Paulson.
Home for hate. Slurs posted on Twitter are on the rise since Elon Musk took over the social media service, according to recent findings.
■ “How’s that free speech thing working out?” Nashville’s Jack White rhetorically asks Musk in a scathing Instagram post.
■ The blog posts of a Massachusetts man, convicted of criminal harassment, were “true threats,” an appeals court has ruled.
■ Lachlan Murdoch is the latest Fox News figure to be deposed in the network’s defamation lawsuit brought on by Dominion Voting Machines.
Stand on sidewalks. FIRE has filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold free speech on public walkways everywhere.
■ Supreme Court justices will hear squeaky dog toy trademark complaint brought by Jack Daniel’s.
■ The national religious-liberty law firm that defended Washington football coach Joe Kennedy is weighing in on a similar controversy in Sumner County, Tenn.
■ University of Pennsylvania student activists, facing disciplinary action, said the school administration is suppressing their “right to free speech and peaceful assembly.”
Pressed to act. A press-freedom advocate has urged Sen. Dick Durbin, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to push ahead with legislation to protect working journalists from government intrusion.
■ Prosecuting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act is a threat to press freedom, concluded a Reason senior editor.
■ Opinion: The conviction of Oath Keepers’ Stewart Rhodes follows other high-profile cases that require a new understanding of both militia threats and the limits of free speech.
■ In a review of historian Christopher M. Finan’s new book, “How Free Speech Saved Democracy,” law professor and author David L. Hudson Jr. called it a compelling look at how freedom of speech has been a positive force for social change.
Viral revival. The COVID pandemic may have helped boost digital subscriptions of news publications, according to Medill School of Journalism data.
■ A San Jose, Calif., church that ignored county COVID rules will not have to pay more than $200,000 in fines, the state’s high court has ruled.
■ Attacking the spread of information about reproductive rights is the latest tactic of abortion foes, a guest essay in the New York Times asserted.
■ Lawsuits challenge a new law that would punish California doctors for spreading medical misinformation.
■ The settlement of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit leads to an audit discovery of millions of dollars in widespread health-care overcharges.
