■ One key provision in California’s online safety law violates the First Amendment, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
■ A Republican state senator from Chattanooga is set to appeal a public-records ruling that kept a school shooter’s writings from being released.
■ After a long free-speech battle, a conservative California professor is awarded a $2.4 million settlement.
Back to school. Colleges across the country have revised campus-speech rules while bracing for a resurgence in activism as students return.
■ Constitutional scholar John R. Vile has offered a closer look at a ruling protecting Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian campus protests.
■ Constitutional scholar John R. Vile has offered a closer look at a ruling protecting Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian campus protests.
■ Nashville’s mayor has announced legislation aimed at protecting First Amendment rights while boosting public safety.
■ The Arkansas Supreme Court continued to reject signed petitions for an abortion-rights ballot initiative.
Pronouncement. A Wisconsin teacher has claimed in a discrimination lawsuit that his refusal to use preferred names of two transgender students led to his contract not being renewed.
■ A group of pastors sent an email to a Texas school district superintendent asking for the removal from school libraries of 676 books that they deemed “filthy and evil.”
■ A Kansas school principal who helped hand out Bibles to students violated the First Amendment, the ACLU has claimed.
■ An Oklahoma board has officially voided a contract with what would have been the state’s first Catholic charter school.
Access point. A law that shields technology companies from liability is now being used against them in a unique lawsuit, The New York Times reported.
■ Meta has halted its CrowdTangle tool used to fight disinformation despite more than 50,000 requests to keep it active.
■ Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, a messaging app with 900 million users, has been arrested in connection with an investigation into criminal activity on the platform.
■ The state of California announced it will commit $250 million to work with tech companies to help fund journalism and artificial-intelligence research.
■ X has become a haven for the type of free speech Elon Musk has come to champion – his right-wing political views.
■ X has become a haven for the type of free speech Elon Musk has come to champion – his right-wing political views.
Plugged leak. News outlets were leaked confidential material from the Donald Trump campaign but chose not to publish it, reported David Bauder of the Associated Press.
■ Three journalists were among the more than 70 people arrested outside last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
■ Preeminent First Amendment attorney Bruce Johnson has died after a short battle with ALS.
■ The last 12 months has been a hazardous time for First Amendment rights with the impact of social media commanding most of the headlines.
■ President Biden has called on Syria for the immediate release of another U.S. journalist.
■ President Biden has called on Syria for the immediate release of another U.S. journalist.