Amicus Brief

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 ...

The Institute filed an amicus brief urging the court to limit the Texas Citizens Participation Act (“TCPA”) under the First Amendment to situations where ...

While the District Court correctly held that the ministerial exception shields the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Inc. and Roncalli High School, Inc. from ...

This amicus brief supports the lower court’s dismissal of charges against defendant Jonathan Hunt. Michael Avenatti is a public figure, and the statements of ...

Senator Ted Cruz’s victory over the Federal Election Commission in a loan-repayment case clarified important First Amendment principles. The Institute for Free Speech asked ...