The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas resigned Monday, just days after he was suspended from his post and following the release of body camera video of the raid showing an officer searching the desk of a reporter investigating the chief’s past. Marion Police Chief Gideon … Continued
Hundreds of students from Pennsylvania’s Perkiomen Valley School District walked out of class Friday after the local school board failed to enact a policy requiring transgender students to use the restroom corresponding with their biological sex. “Kids were upset. Girls… we wanted to protect them. They were upset. They didn’t want men in their bathroom,” John Ott, … Continued
A court ruling in a fight involving a California school district has resulted in a ruling that officials “can’t selectively enforce discriminatory policies against Christian groups, while exempting secular ones.” The decision comes from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Fellowship of Christian Athletes v. San Jose Unified School District Board … Continued
California state officials have agreed to pay $192,706 in attorneys’ fees to settle with a pro-life group in a free speech case, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) announced Tuesday. The ADF filed a lawsuit in October 2021 on behalf of Right to Life of Central California after Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law, SB 743, restricting certain free speech activities … Continued
A Texas law requiring age verification for porn sites was temporarily blocked by U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra one day before the rule was set to take effect. Judge Ezra granted a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking enforcement of the law after the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) joined adult performers and sites like Pornhub in a lawsuit … Continued
A 12-year-old boy just won a major victory against his school after a video of him being removed from class for displaying a Gadsden flag patch on his backpack went viral this week. Education expert and president of the Libertas Institute in Utah, Connor Boyack, released a screenshot of the Vanguard School Board of Directors allowing Jaiden … Continued
Six California community college professors asked a federal court last week to block new regulations that could force professors to teach divisive and controversial concepts. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) filed the Aug. 17 lawsuit on behalf of six professors in the State Center Community College District representing three schools: Madera Community College, Reedley … Continued
A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction blocking a week-old Illinois law authorizing prosecution of “limited services” crisis pregnancy centers for allegedly duping women to believe they could get abortion services at the pro-life centers. The Deceptive Practices of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers Act, passed by the state legislature in May and signed into … Continued
Lawyers for Kirk Cameron told a public library in Alabama that it is running afoul of the First Amendment by canceling a children’s reading event just days before Mr. Cameron and female swimming and women’s sports activist Riley Gaines were set to appear at the reading. First Liberty sent a demand letter to the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library asking for … Continued
A young Christian man is seen being arrested by police as they preached at a Pride event in Watertown, Wisconsin, in a video clip that has gone viral on social media. The video has so far been viewed more than 2 million times since being posted on the TonyTM Twitter page on Monday. The event in … Continued
A third city in Georgia has been sued for arresting a free speech activist who peacefully stood outside its city hall and held a “God bless the homeless vets” sign. Jeffrey Gray filed a lawsuit on Monday against Port Wentworth Police Lieutenant Robert Hemminger in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Savannah Division. … Continued
California has agreed to pay more than $1 million in attorneys’ fees to four churches following two separate rulings determining that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects churches from having to fund abortion coverage in their healthcare plans. The nonprofit legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom, which has represented several churches in litigation … Continued
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