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San Antonio: Animal Care Services restricts comments on its Facebook page

Animal Care Services has deleted or hidden numerous comments from its Facebook page based on apparent disapproval of the viewpoints they express.

Advocacy

University of Miami

University of Miami: University Takes Issue With Professor Wearing a “Palestine” Sash During Class

University of Miami announces that a faculty member “came at odds” with university policies for wearing a sash with the word “Palestine” on it.

Advocacy

Surprise, Arizona: Mom arrested at city council meeting after criticizing city attorney’s pay raise

With ��֭��’s help, an Arizona mom is suing the City of Surprise, AZ., after the mayor ordered her arrest for questioning a pay raise for a city official at a council meeting.

Litigation

Bates College

Bates College: College Modifies Mandatory DEI Statement in Job Applications

Applicant DEI statements will be optional following letter from ��֭��.

Advocacy

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Administration Suspends Five Student Groups for “Intimidating and Hateful” Instagram Post

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Chancellor announced an investigation and later the suspension after groups condemned supporters of Israel.

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University of Dayton

University of Dayton: Campus Police Retaliate Against FIREfor Criticism

Officers referred students for university discipline, calling protected criticism “interference.”

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San Antonio: Animal Care Services restricts comments on its Facebook page

University of Miami: University Takes Issue With Professor Wearing a “Palestine” Sash During Class

Surprise, Arizona: Mom arrested at city council meeting after criticizing city attorney’s pay raise

Bates College: College Modifies Mandatory DEI Statement in Job Applications

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Administration Suspends Five Student Groups for “Intimidating and Hateful” Instagram Post

University of Florida: Administrators Force Student Group to Take Down Instagram Post

Leroy v. Livingston Manor Central School District

Hogarth v. Brinson Bell: North Carolina Threatens Voter with Prosecution for Taking a Ballot Selfie

FIRE Engaged in Advancing Texas v. Paxton: FIREsues to block Texas’s unconstitutional internet age verification law

University of Dayton: Campus Police Retaliate Against FIREfor Criticism

Featured Litigation Cases

LAWSUIT: North Carolina woman challenges state’s unconstitutional ‘ballot selfie’ ban

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VICTORY: Vermont man jailed for flipping off cop receives $175K settlement

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LAWSUIT: Arizona mom sues city after arrest for criticizing government lawyer’s pay

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Featured Advocacy Cases

University of Arizona: Faculty Senate Chair Introduces New Initiative that Threatens Free Speech

University of Arizona

University of Texas at Austin: Riot Police Forcibly Disperse Peaceful Protesters, Arresting More Than 50 People

University of Texas at Austin

Dartmouth College: Student Journalists Arrested Covering Campus Protest

Dartmouth College

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