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Federal Judge Orders Iowa To Allow Satanic Temple To Hold One-Day Holiday Event in the State Capitol

Chief District Judge Stephanie M. Rose said in her order that the Satanic Temple was likely to succeed on its free speech claim.

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CNN, MS NOW and Politico Ask Court To Make Trump Access Order Permanent

At issue is whether the president, or anyone, can punish news outlets for the content of their reports.

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Nonprofit That Rates Hospitals Claims Its First Amendment Rights Were Violated in Florida Hospital Dispute

The core question of the case — which pits consumer protection law against the First Amendment — asks how the First Amendment protects ratings and reviews if claims arise that the methodology behind those reviews is unfair and misleading.

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6 Citizens Sue Trump, Saying Media Ban Deprives Them of News as Audience Stakeholders

Even more fundamentally, the lawsuit argues, such bans violate the public’s right to independent reporting about its president and government.

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Judge Orders Trump To Sit for a Deposition in His Defamation Lawsuit Against the BBC by Dec. 11

Trump, who has often avoided depositions, filed his lawsuit against the BBC last December.

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[The] right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”
-James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions, 1800
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