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Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on nearly 100 years of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas

When a junior at an Orange County public high school in Florida visited the school library to check out a copy of “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, it wasn’t in its Dewey decimal system-assigned location ...
al.com

Test your Constitutional knowledge: Are these protests protected by the First Amendment?

Did you know the First Amendment protects the right to protest — but not all demonstrations are treated equally? When, where and how people protest can determine whether their actions are legally ...
Ars Technica

First Amendment doesn’t just protect human speech, chatbot maker argues

Pushing to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that its chatbots caused a teen’s suicide, Character Technologies is arguing that chatbot outputs should be considered “pure speech” deserving of the highest ...
WLRN

Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on precedent protecting First Amendment

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. James B. Blasingame is professor of English at Arizona ...