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Supreme Court Turns Back Challenges to Laws Keeping Abortion Opponents Away From Clinics, Patients

Anti-abortion activists said the measures violate free-speech rights and should be on their “deathbed” after the justices overturned Roe v. Wade.

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A coalition of pro-Palestinian University of Michigan students and supporters protest in the street

ACLU Sues University of Michigan Over Campus Bans for Pro-Palestinian Protesters

The lawsuit accuses the university of violating protesters' right to free speech, and also argues that the university “abused its authority to ban people from public property.”

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Columbia University encampment continues, in New York

Trump Administration Opens Antisemitism Investigations at 5 Universities

The new investigations were opened the same day the Justice Department announced a new task force to root out antisemitism on college campuses.

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Family of environmental activist Manuel Paez Teran sue the City of Atlanta for more information about his death by law enforcement

Family of ‘Cop City’ Activist Who Was Killed by Troopers Files Lawsuit

The lawsuit says GBI Special Agent Ryan Long planned a “raid” that targeted protesters for expressing their political beliefs, violating their First Amendment rights.

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White Adidas Soccer Ball on Grass

NH Court To Hear Cases About Transgender Girls Playing Girls Sports and the Right to Protest Them

A federal judge ruled earlier this year that the teens can try out for and play on girls school sports teams as they seek to overturn the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act on behalf of all transgender students in New Hampshire.

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373rd Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge

Harvard Suspends Library Privileges for Faculty Involved in ‘Study-In’ Protests

The practice involves protesters silently reading materials related to free speech while propping up signs about dissent and university policy.

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Rally in support of Palestinians amid the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in New York

Pro-Palestinian Protester Charged With Assault for Actions at University of Minnesota

The protest, like others at college campuses including earlier this year at University of Minnesota campuses, raised issues of free speech and antisemitism.

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Unionized academic workers, upset about the University of California's response to pro-Palestinian protests at various campuses, strike at UCLA in Los Angeles

New Campus Protest Rules Spur an Outcry From College Faculty

To some faculty, new protest rules threaten their freedom of speech and their freedom to think, both central tenets of university life.

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