■ Musk’s X Corp. has sued the state of California over a recently passed content moderation law, challenging its constitutionality.
■ A new Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) survey of 55,000 students revealed that the majority think their colleges do not value free expression on campus.
■ University of Tennessee students surveyed by FIRE believe their campuses are committed to free expression in contrast to conservative rhetoric among state elected officials.
Radiating harm. Biden administration efforts to flag what it considered harmful COVID-related social media content violated the First Amendment, a panel of judges has ruled.
■ Rudy Giuliani sealed his own fate in losing a defamation lawsuit, and a constitutional law attorney has explained how that happened.
■ Orders from judges that restrict former president Donald Trump’s speech can be used to protect his First Amendment rights, explained Lynn Greenky, author of When Freedom Speaks.
■ Pressured by parents, a Wyoming library board not only pulled books from shelves, but it also withdrew from the American Library Association, which has fought against book bans.
Mouse droppings. Disney has amended its federal lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis but pushed ahead with its First Amendment claim of retaliation.
■ The Texas law requiring age verification on porn sites is unconstitutional and raises privacy concerns, a U.S. district judge has ruled.
■ Arguing that commenting on diversity is protected speech, a North Carolina Supreme Court justice has filed a federal lawsuit after the state opened an investigation into remarks she made to an online legal journal.
■ A SUNY adjunct professor who claimed fellow professors prevented him from attaining higher positions at the school lost his latest appeal that his First Amendment rights were violated.
Long reach. CNN stretched across the Atlantic Ocean to hire its new chairman and CEO, Mark Thompson, a former BBC director general.
■ META is developing an advanced AI system that produces sophisticated text and analyses, The Wall Street Journal reported.
■ The Carnegie Corporation of New York has joined a coalition of philanthropic donors determined to strengthen and preserve community news organizations in America.
■ A complaint was filed against the judge who signed off on the search warrant used in the raid on the Marion, Kan., newspaper office last month.
■ The police chief who led the raid on the Marion County Record has been sued by one of its reporters, who claimed his officers violated her constitutional rights.
One-game season? The Washington state high school football coach who successfully waged a seven-year religious-freedom legal battle to get his job back, resigned after the team’s first game.
■ When it comes to sidewalk counseling there is no abortion exception in the First Amendment, reasoned the publisher of the National Catholic Register.
■ A conservative Florida state legislator has introduced a “Right to Rock Act” to prohibit music venues from canceling artists over political views or social media behavior.
Rough seize. When police take equipment from journalists and refuse to return it, they likely have violated federal law and chilled reporting, according to the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
■ A court in Myanmar, a country that ranks near the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, sentenced a photojournalist to 20 years in prison for reporting on the aftermath of May’s deadly cyclone there.
■ A Delaware man who gave a middle-finger gesture to police that blocked his attempts to warn motorists of a speed trap was awarded $50,000 in federal court.
■ Artifacts that depict the “Five Freedoms” highlight the National Constitution Center’s new First Amendment Gallery, which opened Sept. 6 in Philadelphia.
■ A complaint was filed against the judge who signed off on the search warrant used in the raid on the Marion, Kan., newspaper office last month.
■ The police chief who led the raid on the Marion County Record has been sued by one of its reporters, who claimed his officers violated her constitutional rights.
One-game season? The Washington state high school football coach who successfully waged a seven-year religious-freedom legal battle to get his job back, resigned after the team’s first game.
■ When it comes to sidewalk counseling there is no abortion exception in the First Amendment, reasoned the publisher of the National Catholic Register.
■ A conservative Florida state legislator has introduced a “Right to Rock Act” to prohibit music venues from canceling artists over political views or social media behavior.
Rough seize. When police take equipment from journalists and refuse to return it, they likely have violated federal law and chilled reporting, according to the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
■ A court in Myanmar, a country that ranks near the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, sentenced a photojournalist to 20 years in prison for reporting on the aftermath of May’s deadly cyclone there.
■ A Delaware man who gave a middle-finger gesture to police that blocked his attempts to warn motorists of a speed trap was awarded $50,000 in federal court.
■ Artifacts that depict the “Five Freedoms” highlight the National Constitution Center’s new First Amendment Gallery, which opened Sept. 6 in Philadelphia.