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The MIT students retained the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Fish & Richardson to represent them and asserted that the term "transmission" in the CFAA cannot be broadly construed as any form of communication and the restraining order is a prior restraint infringing their First Amendment right to protected free speech about academic research.
Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U.S. 74 (1980), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision issued on June 9, 1980 which affirmed the decision of the California Supreme Court in a case that arose out of a free speech dispute between the Pruneyard Shopping Center in Campbell, California, and several local high school students (who wished to canvass signatures for a petition against United ...
It’s very hard for me not to be pessimistic about the state of free speech in higher education. ... This would ensure that colleges can no longer claim legal cover for violating students’ free ...
To start, schools should seek out scholars over activists.
In 2020, FIRE partnered with College Pulse and RealClearEducation to release the College Free Speech Rankings, a comparison of student free-speech environments at America's top college campuses. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] The rankings incorporate FIRE's speech code ratings, but also include surveys of students at the ranked schools. [ 42 ]
The Supreme Court ruled public schools have no general power to punish students for what they say off campus. 'Sigh of relief': Student activists celebrate ruling in school free speech case Skip ...
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a massive, long-lasting student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. [1] The Movement was informally under the central leadership of Berkeley graduate student Mario Savio . [ 2 ]
The government encouraging them to remove false speech only violates the 1st Amendment if it can be proved that the government caused, and will cause in the future, speech to be blocked.