Amicus Brief

Amicus brief explains that the First Amendment does not protect viewpoint censorship by large social media platforms

The Institute for Free Speech filed an amicus brief in the case Sullivan v. Texas Ethics Commission in the Supreme Court of Texas. The brief ...

The Institute for Free Speech has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in the case United ...

The Institute for Free Speech has filed an amicus brief in the case Gonzalez v. Trevino, urging the Supreme Court to overturn a Fifth ...

The Institute for Free Speech today filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in Campaign Legal ...

The right to criticize public officials and government employees lies at the heart of the First Amendment. Yet, for Hampden parent Shawn McBreairty, such ...

A government’s demand that employees pledge loyalty to a political ideology would ordinarily violate the First Amendment.

The Institute for Free Speech has filed an amicus brief supporting Frese’s position. As the brief explains, the law of criminal libel raises fears of prosecution ...

Large social-media platforms predictably favor an expansive reading of section 230 immunity that maximizes their discretion while minimizing their potential liability. But while section ...

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 ...