Introducing The SLAPP Back Initiative

First Amendment Watch is building the first national database of alleged SLAPPs — strategic lawsuits against public participation — potentially meritless or malicious legal actions that can financially cripple and ultimately silence critical voices.

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Protesters gather at the University of California Los Angeles

California Colleges Settle Antisemitism Complaints With Jewish Groups and Individuals

Some Jewish students said the protests created a “hostile environment” for them and said college leaders did little to enforce free speech and nondiscrimination rules.

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Airline flights cut at major US airports due to shutdown in Boston

Foreigners Allowed To Travel to the US Without a Visa Could Soon Face New Social Media Screening

The announcement did not say what the administration was looking for in the social media accounts or why it was asking for more information.

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A drone view shows the scene where Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at Utah Valley University event, in Orem

The Man Accused of Killing Charlie Kirk Appears in Court for 1st Time as a Judge Weighs Media Access

A coalition of national and local news organizations, including The Associated Press, is fighting to preserve media access in the case.

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Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk arrives at Logan airport

Turkish Student Who Criticized Israel Can Resume Research at Tufts After Visa Revoked, Judge Rules

The judge wrote that Öztürk is likely to succeed on claims that the termination was “arbitrary and capricious, contrary to law and in violation of the First Amendment.”

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James Madison
[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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