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The First Amendment rights in relation to the nondisclosure orders attached to National Security Letters.
A small number of democratic legal systems have judicially recognized pornography as a form of protected expression under constitutional or fundamental‑rights law, but those protections are routinely ...
Twenty‑three states and the District of Columbia maintain statutes that limit wearing masks in public, but those laws vary sharply in scope: some are narrow, criminalizing masking conducted with inten...
Anti‑SLAPP laws are statutory tools designed to stop lawsuits meant primarily to chill public participation by allowing an expedited early dismissal when the suit targets protected speech on matters o...
The Smith–Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 has generated sustained controversy: critics contend it weakens a long-standing “firewall” against government-produced information targeting domestic audience...
Laws governing unintentional exposure to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) differ significantly across federal and state lines: many jurisdictions historically treated possession as a strict liabilit...
National Security Letters (NSLs) are administrative subpoenas the FBI may issue without prior judicial approval to compel business records while routinely attaching nondisclosure (gag) orders that bar...
Text-only sexual writing that depicts minors is treated far more permissively under U.S. law and constitutional doctrine than visual depictions: federal statutes and precedent focus criminal liability...
There is no single, explicit federal statute that on its face says “the government may not create a database of citizens to use for retaliation,” but multiple overlapping legal regimes substantially c...
Federal courts successfully blocked and ultimately struck down high-profile state measures banning "Sharia" or broadly forbidding foreign or religious law, most notably Oklahoma’s 2010 State Question ...
Minnesota’s lawsuit seeks to halt “Operation Metro Surge,” arguing the mass deployment of DHS agents inflicted concrete harms on the state and violated multiple constitutional and statutory provisions...
Death threats or calls for violence on livestreams can meet U.S. criminal statutes, but whether they constitute prosecutable “true threats” or unlawful “incitement” depends on legal tests that balance...
Unredacted audio posted on personal platforms like Substack demands the same rigor as any primary-source material: verify provenance and authenticity, assess legal and privacy risks, and weigh public ...
Holocaust denial emerged immediately after World War II as a reaction of disbelief and concerted revisionist campaigns seeking to erase or minimize Nazi crimes, and has since evolved from fringe print...
Stalking can be a federal crime when it crosses state lines or uses interstate communications under 18 U.S.C. §2261A, and fraud (including mail and wire fraud) is often a federal offense when it impli...
Hiring people to attend protests or demonstrations is a legally gray but generally lawful practice in the United States: the First Amendment protects expressive activity and courts treat peaceful paid...
European countries—principally through EU-wide laws like the Digital Services Act (DSA) and longstanding rules such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)—have built a regulatory framework t...
The United Kingdom criminalises a range of communications — including “malicious” or “grossly offensive” messages, threats, false communications and harassment — through statutes like the Malicious Co...
Federal law criminalizes pretending to be a United States official through several related statutes—most prominently 18 U.S.C. § 912 and § 913—and treats the display or manufacture of counterfeit fede...
Federal law defines child pornography as any visual depiction of “sexually explicit conduct” involving a minor, and courts treat images of partially clothed children through a totality‑of‑the‑circumst...
Federal judges across the country have repeatedly ruled that specific Trump administration actions exceeded constitutional or statutory authority and, in several cases, have issued injunctions barring...