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Each year, FIRE reviews thousands of potential cases involving individuals and groups whose rights are threatened. FIRE’s team of legal and advocacy experts have decades of experience protecting free speech both on and off college campuses. Learn more about FIRE’s civil liberties cases.

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Loyola University New Orleans

Loyola University New Orleans: Student Senate Denies TPUSA Recognition

FIRE reminds Loyola University New Orleans that student governments must use viewpoint-neutral criteria for recognizing student organizations.

Baldwin Wallace University

Baldwin Wallace University: Student Senate Denies TPUSA Recognition

FIRE reminds Baldwin Wallace University that student governments must use viewpoint-neutral criteria for recognizing student organizations.

Advocacy

Seton Hall University

Seton Hall University: Student Senate Denies TPUSA Recognition

FIRE reminds Seton Hall University that student governments must use viewpoint-neutral criteria for recognizing student organizations.

Advocacy

Larry Bushart v. Perry County

Retired law enforcement officer jailed for 37 days for posting Donald Trump meme about Charlie Kirk.

Litigation

Meadowview Middle School: Administrator requires students to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance

The principal at Meadowview Middle School in Hamblen County, Tennessee, threatened to issue demerits to students who refused to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance and then followed through on that threat.

Advocacy

G.W., et al. v. Coronado Unified School District, et al.

FIRE has seen an increasing number of cases where government defendants rely on California’s anti-SLAPP statute to dismiss non-viable civil rights cases at an early stage of litigation.

Amicus Brief

Texas Tech University