Amicus Brief

The right to criticize public officials and government employees lies at the heart of the First Amendment. Yet, for Hampden parent Shawn McBreairty, such ...

A government’s demand that employees pledge loyalty to a political ideology would ordinarily violate the First Amendment.

The Institute for Free Speech has filed an amicus brief supporting Frese’s position. As the brief explains, the law of criminal libel raises fears of prosecution ...

Large social-media platforms predictably favor an expansive reading of section 230 immunity that maximizes their discretion while minimizing their potential liability. But while section ...

It is axiomatic that government censorship violates the First Amendment. But does anything short of a government official’s commanding law enforcement to shut down ...

This case is about what happens when a federal agency goes rogue and decides it no longer must follow its own organizing statute or ...

The First Amendment bars government from picking ideological winners and losers, silencing one side of a debate to spare the feelings of the other, ...

Consider three singers: one writes and performs commercial jingles for an advertising agency, the second writes and performs love songs, and the third sings ...

There can be no serious dispute that the district court’s gag order violates the First Amendment. The order threatens to imprison an American citizen ...

Our nation has a rich history of respecting private businesses’ expressive rights, while acknowledging that sometimes their centrality to the operation of civic life ...