Arrested for asking questions, citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal now has a powerful coalition urging the Supreme Court to protect reporters — and all Americans — from government retaliation.
When local officials tried to turn journalism into a crime, Priscilla Villarreal refused to back down and is taking her fight all the way to the Supreme Court.
Professor Lars Jensen was unconstitutionally punished for handing out fliers criticizing Truckee Meadows Community College’s watered down math standards.
What is qualified immunity? The legal doctrine shields government officials from accountability for violating people’s constitutional rights. Here's how it works.
Texas officials arrested citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal for exercising her core First Amendment right to ask government officials for information as part of her reporting.
Rights need remedies. This is the point FIRE argued in an amicus brief filed in support of Anthony Novak’s request for the Supreme Court to hear his case.
FIRE filed an amicus brief urging the court not to grant qualified immunity to university officials who violated Dr. Ehab Shehata's constitutional rights.
In a decision authored last week by Judge Harris Hartz, a three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit strengthened students’ expressive rights, denying qualified immunity to an administrator who censored a student critical of a faculty member.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted FIRE’s motion to file an amicus brief in support of Anthony Novak, who created a parody Facebook page poking fun at the City of Parma, Ohio’s police.
