Experts said the church protest and fallout over the arrests of journalists who covered it are among many First Amendment ...

A First Amendment controversy is brewing in Oklahoma over a college essay that led to an allegation of religious discrimination and an instructor put on leave. The matter involves an essay for a ...

In the aftermath of last Sunday's storming of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, a nonpartisan civil liberties group says that the First Amendment does not protect protesters who interrupt church ...

In recent years, litigation on certain types of religious freedom lawsuits have been practically run of the mill: prayer on school premises, for example, and government funding for students at ...

Colorado keeps pushing the limits of the First Amendment — making it the testing ground for court cases involving free speech and religious freedom. First came the state’s years-long persecution of ...

Protections for religious freedom in the U.S. have grown in recent years with multiple states adopting laws to strengthen the constitutional right to freely exercise one’s religion. As of 2025, 30 ...

Newsmen have no right to disobey the law or to disrupt religious exercise.

A Colorado man who said he was forced to shave his beard while incarcerated for a parole violation has won a $245,000 settlement after a decade-long legal battle, resolving a First Amendment lawsuit ...

About three-fourths of states scored less than 50% on Napa Legal Institute’s religious freedom index, which measures how well states safeguard religious liberty for faith-based organizations. The ...

Lawmakers filed bills in the 2026 legislative session that may affect how laws interpret the First Amendment's freedom of ...

Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right by David M. Rabban. Harvard University Press, 2024.