Press Releases
Apr 16, 2024
Fourth Circuit Rejects West Virginia Law Barring Transgender Girls From Student Athletics
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a West Virginia law banning transgender student-athletes from playing on teams consistent with their gender identi...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Women's Rights
Court case: B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education
Apr 16, 2024
³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥, Civil-Society Groups, Urge Congress to Extend Funding for Affordable Internet Program
Without additional funding, the Affordable Connectivity Program, which provides government subsidies for internet to tens of millions of Americans, will expire.
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
Apr 15, 2024
Supreme Court Narrows Injunction Against Idaho Trans Care Ban
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court of the United States issued a partial stay today against a statewide preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of Idaho’s ban on gender-affirmi...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Poe v. Labrador
Apr 15, 2024
³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ Statement on Supreme Court Decision to Decline to Hear Case on Protestors’ Rights
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court today declined to hear a case that would have affirmed that the First Amendment protects protest leaders and organizers from being held liable for ...
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
Court case: Doe v. Mckesson (Ford v. Mckesson)
Apr 15, 2024
³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ Applauds EEOC Final Regulations for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced the release of its final regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). ...
Apr 12, 2024
³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥, Free Speech Coalition and Partners Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Unconstitutional Texas Law Burdening Adult Access to Sexual Content
WASHINGTON – Represented by the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ and the law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, the Free Speech Coalition and others today asked the U.S. S...
Court case: Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton
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News & CommentaryJul 2025
LGBTQ Rights
Court Strikes Down Nih's Unlawful Termination Of Research Grants On Topics Including Dei And Gender Identity. Explore News & Commentary.Court Strikes Down NIH's Unlawful Termination of Research Grants on Topics Including DEI and Gender Identity
In a sweeping rebuke, a court ruled that NIH’s actions targeting research involving "disfavored" topics and populations were unlawful, arbitrary, and capricious, and therefore void. Ibis Reproductive Health reflects on the harm done — and why this research matters. -
Court CaseJul 2025
Immigrants' Rights
Nyynkpao Banyee V. Pamela Bondi, Et Al. Explore Case.Nyynkpao Banyee v. Pamela Bondi, et al
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FloridaJul 2025
Immigrants' Rights
C.m. V. Noem. Explore Case.C.M. v. Noem
Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration over lack of access to legal counsel and violations of due process for people detained at Florida’s new, notorious Everglades immigration center, a hastily constructed facility on an abandoned airstrip in the middle of the wetlands in Ochopee. -
News & CommentaryJul 2025
Free Speech
60 Years Later: How A Civil Rights-era Defamation Case Empowers The Press. Explore News & Commentary.60 Years Later: How a Civil Rights-Era Defamation Case Empowers the Press
From civil rights protests to Trump-era lawsuits, New York Times v. Sullivan continues to shape press freedom