Institute for Justice

James Jenkins

First Amendment

IJ defends the free flow of information, whether it deals with politics or commerce. Such information is indispensable to our democratic form of government and to our system of free enterprise.

James Jenkins

Commercial Speech First Amendment Other Property Rights Abuses Private Property
Lawsuit

Outdated Federal Law Threatens Unique Richmond Publisher Virginia Books

Filed: 1534377600August 16, 2018

Location: Washington, D.C.

Status: Pending

Commercial Speech First Amendment Other Property Rights Abuses Private Property
Press Release

Government demands copies of books, threatens thousands in fines, offers nothing in return Outdated Federal Law Threatens Unique Richmond Publisher

Commercial Speech First Amendment Other Property Rights Abuses Private Property
James Jenkins column: Freedom of the press doesn’t mean you must give the government free books

First Amendment Other Property Rights Abuses Private Property
Plaintiffs in tour-guide suit to bill Charleston; insurance will cover legal fees

Economic Liberty Occupational Licensing Tour Guides
Voluntary licensing can still help best tour guides stand out

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Victory For The First Amendment in Charleston

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Judge strikes down abuse-prone Colorado campaign finance law

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Charleston visitors, officials wary of loosened requirements for tour guides

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Kim Billups

First Amendment Occupational Speech
7 On Your Side: Feds compel dairy farmers label natural milk “Imitation Milk Product”

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District Court Strikes Down Licenses for Tour Guides in Charleston

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Court strikes down tour guide license requirement

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Charleston ceases its tour guide licensing after judge’s ruling

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Federal judge rules Charleston’s tour-guide licensing law violates free speech

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Thought Leader: Technology and the Demise of Surveying…Again

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Tour companies react to federal ruling ending licensing requirement

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Judge strikes down Charleston’s tour-guide licensing

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Press Release

First Amendment Victory Vindicates Would-Be Guides’ Two-Year Battle Federal Judge Strikes Down Charleston’s Licensing Requirement for Tour Guides

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Federal court strikes Charleston tour guide licensing laws as Unconstitutional

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Charleston tour guide license law unconstitutional, federal judge rules

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Federal judge strikes down Charleston’s licensing requirement for tour guides

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Charleston’s tour guide licensing rules are unconstitutional, a federal judge says

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
FAN 198 (First Amendment News) The new spin on defamation practice

First Amendment
Mislabeled: FDA struggles to define ‘milk’ locally, nationally

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom Food Freedom
Government overreach is killing this Mississippi tech startup

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
State: You need permit, which we won’t give you

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Lawsuit: Bureaucrats violating vocational school’s rights

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Jon McGlothian

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Speech
Press Release

Army veteran and wife stopped from teaching job skills by State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Virginia Couple Sues to Protect Their First Amendment Right to Teach

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Speech
Lawsuit

License to Teach? Virginia Stops Family Business From Teaching Useful Job Skills Virginia Teaching

Filed: 1532390400July 24, 2018

Location: Richmond, VA

Status: Pending

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Speech
Tracy McGlothian

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Speech
FDA’s Skim Label Offer Not Good Enough

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom Food Freedom
Land Surveyors Are Paying the Price of Progress

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Mississippi: drawing digital lines on satellite map requires surveyor’s license

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Millennials giving up their voice by not voting, ASU report finds

Campaign Speech First Amendment
AZ No. 43 in voter turnout; minorities, youth and poor are hurt most

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Op-Ed: Vizaline Founders

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Madison tech-biz says rights are being violated by state board trying to shut him down

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
If an algorithm draws lines on a map, is that the same as land surveying?

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
FAN 196.1 (First Amendment News) Summertime: Free Speech Podcasts to Check Out

First Amendment
State orders startup company to give back all income

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Press Release

Startup Files Countersuit After Licensing Board Sues to Shut It Down for Drawing Maps Over Satellite Photos Mississippi Startup Files First Amendment Countersuit Against State Licensing Board

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Lawsuit

Mississippi Regulatory Board Sues Tech Entrepreneurs to Prevent Competition Mississippi Mapping

Filed: 1531180800July 10, 2018

Location: Canton, MS

Status: Pending

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Mississippi licensing board says plotting lines on a satellite photo requires a surveyor’s license

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Supreme Court Decision Restores Free Speech To Business Professionals

First Amendment Occupational Speech
800 Lactation Consultants Could Lose Jobs Under New Georgia Licensing Law

Economic Liberty First Amendment Health Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Dairy Farm Vs. FDA: Maryland Dairy Farmer Stands Up for Milk Labeling

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Blog Post

U.S. Supreme Court: “Professional Speech” Is Protected by the First Amendment

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BREAKING: US Supreme Court strikes down law forcing pregnancy centers to promote abortion

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Hawaii Becomes 12th state to ban conversion therapy for minors

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Colorado Has New Rules about Enforcement of Its Campaign Finance and Disclosure Laws. We’ve Used a Real-Life Example (Walker Stapleton) to Show How You Can File an Official Complaint

Campaign Speech First Amendment
After federal judge’s ruling, all Colorado campaign finance complaints will be vetted by secretary of state’s office

Campaign Speech First Amendment
New Colorado campaign finance rules reflect judgment that citizen complaints unconstitutional

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Judge slaps down Colorado for violating 1st Amendment

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Colorado Campaign Finance Enforcement System Found Unconstitutional

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Ruling throws Colorado campaign finance system for a loop

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Court finds citizens’ complaints a problem

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Press Release

Court voices concern that system is “a feeding ground for political warfare and what could be described as extortion” Federal Court Rules That Colorado’s Abuse-Prone Campaign-Finance Enforcement Violates First Amendment

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Federal Court Rules on Colorado Campaign Finance Laws

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Victory in Lawsuit Over Colorado’s System of Private Enforcement of Campaign Finance Law

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Federal judge tosses citizen enforcement of Colorado campaign finance laws

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Judge throws out Colorado campaign finance complaint process

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Federal judge finds portions of Colorado’s campaign finance complaint process are unconstitutional in ruling likely to prompt big change

Campaign Speech First Amendment
A federal judge just knocked down major parts of Colorado’s privatized system of enforcing money-in-politics laws

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Anthony Kennedy Disappointed Everybody in Masterpiece Cakeshop. No Surprise, He’s Done It Before.

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Dairy farmer sues FDA for ‘common sense’ skim milk labels

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Speech First Group Sues Michigan Over Speech Code on First and 14th Amendment Grounds.

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Government-mandated business is grinding small businesses to a halt

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom Food Freedom
Red-light camera critic’s case makes national list of free speech violations

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The Stories We Tell and Who Gets to Tell Them

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
The past week in the Charleston economy

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Jeff Sessions’ Plan to Put Strict Limits on Painkiller Manufacturers Will Only Make the Opioid Crisis Worse: Reason Roundup

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Tennessee man sues TDOT claiming First Amendment violation

First Amendment
A judge could do away with licensing rules for Charleston tour guides later this year

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Ruling in lawsuit over testing requirement for Charleston tour guides expected this summer

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
California Horseshoeing School Takes Ban on Trade Schools to 9th Circuit

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Family Farm Could Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name

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Dairy Seeks Skim Label Without Adding Vitamins

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South Mountain Creamery challenges FDA definition of skim milk

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Decision expected in August for federal trial over Charleston tour guide licensing laws

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Press Release

California Horseshoeing School Takes Trade School Ban to 9th Circuit

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Trump Signs FOSTA ‘Sex Trafficking Bill’ Into Law. It’s Already Changing the Internet For the Worse: Reason Roundup

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Federal trial begins in Charleston tour guide “free speech” lawsuit

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
FAN 186 (First Amendment News) Major new book on Anthony Comstock & his censorial crusades

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment
Feds tell dairy farmer his genuine milk is ‘imitation’

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing
Former Mayor Joe Riley expected to take the stand in tour guide licensing trial tomorrow

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Dairy Farmer Sues FDA for the Right to Label His Skim Milk as “Skim Milk”

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The FDA Won’t Let These Farmers Call Their Skim Milk ‘Skim Milk’

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Got Skim Milk? Dairy Farmer Sues FDA Over its Skim Milk Requirements

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom
Maryland dairy farm files First Amendment suit against FDA milk labeling rule. Skim milk an imitation dairy product? Say it ain’t so

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First Amendment: Skim Milk Labeling Leads Maryland Dairy to Sue FDA

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Trial underway over Charleston tour guide licensing laws

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Charleston tour guide trial set to begin Monday

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
What is Skim Milk? The FDA versus Dairy Farmers

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom Food Freedom
Charleston tour guide lawsuit gets its week in court

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Maryland dairy says FDA ‘skim milk’ label rules violate speech rights

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Farmer files federal lawsuit in Harrisburg over definition of ‘skim milk’

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Press Release

Family-Run Farm Sues FDA for Right to Say Skim Milk is Skim Milk

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom
Lawsuit

Maryland Dairy Farmers Sue for Right to Tell the Truth FDA Skim Milk

Filed: 1522886400April 5, 2018

Location: Harrisburg, PA

Status: Pending

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom
Dairy farmer sues FDA over skim milk labeling regulations

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Should all-natural skim milk be labeled imitation? Dairy farmer sues FDA over labeling

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Maryland-based dairy farmer looking to expand to Pennsylvania sues FDA over its skim milk requirements

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What Free Speech Has To Do With Skim Milk, Condoms And Corporate Political Spending

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Fact-Checking Philly History Tours: Truths, Half-Truths and Truthiness

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Some Links

First Amendment Occupational Speech
A candidate’s secret spending in the governor’s race highlights Colorado’s unique money-in-politics enforcement laws

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Justices appear skeptical of California’s abortion speech law

First Amendment Occupational Speech
The Licensing Logjam

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Pro-lifers optimistic Supreme Court will overturn law forcing pregnancy centers to promote abortion

First Amendment
Wednesday round-up

First Amendment
The Abortion Case That’s Really About the First Amendment

First Amendment
Woman Fought the Government for Right to Teach Makeup Techniques — and Just Won

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Press Release

Supreme Court Brief Explains Compelled Disclaimer Confusion Institute for Justice Defends Small-Business Owners’ Speech

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Editorial: Bill would give state initiative law needed tweak

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Helping People Eat Healthy Food Is Illegal

First Amendment Food Freedom Occupational Speech
How an Oregon man’s fight for traffic camera fairness reached a federal court

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Occupational License Portability Will Hurt in Some States

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Press Release

Colorado Supreme Court Unanimously Affirms Political Speakers’ Right to Use Pro Bono Legal Services Victory for Free Speech in Colorado

Campaign Speech First Amendment
FREE SPEECH WINS: Colorado Supreme Court Says Legal Advice Isn’t a Campaign Donation

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Poised to Consider Ban on Ocular Telehealth

Economic Liberty First Amendment Health Occupational Speech
Beaverton man wins in court, but not done yet

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Press Release

Oregon Engineer Scores Win in Court; Judge Rejects State’s Attempt to Dismiss Case

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So to Speak podcast: Institute for Justice President and General Counsel Scott Bullock

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Oregon in free speech trouble?

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Beaverton man’s lawsuit against state engineering board can proceed, judge rules

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
When his wife got a traffic ticket, he tried to fight the system with science. It turned into a battle over free speech

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Food Fight Led by Public Interest Law Firm Ends Well for Skim Milk-Making Dairy

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Oregon cedes freedom of speech case against red light camera critic

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
But it's not yet ready to rethink its professional licensing rules Oregon will let engineer refer to himself as an ‘engineer’

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Oregon punished an engineer for criticizing red-light cameras. He fought back and won.

First Amendment Occupational Speech
State Board That Fined Man For Criticizing The Government Without A License Admits It Was Wrong

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Oregon admits violating rights of man fined for using math

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Licensing Board Admits It Can’t Silence Red Light Camera Critic

First Amendment Occupational Speech
INSANE: California government criminalizes teaching of trade skills to youth… all “education” must be government approved

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State admits it violated man’s 1st amendment rights

First Amendment Occupational Speech
State board concedes it violated free speech rights of red-light camera critic

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Q&A: Charlotte-based makeup artist challenges N.C. licensing law

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Report: Koch Brothers Still Targeting Campaign Finance Laws

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Health coach, military wife sues FL Dept. of Health

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
The Koch brothers are still targeting campaign finance laws — but so are liberals

Campaign Speech First Amendment
A fight over supplementation of vitamin A makes it to the federal court of appeals. Florida Loses Years-Long Battle to Relabel Skim Milk ‘Imitation Milk’

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Riviera foe Fane Lozeman wins second trip to U.S. Supreme Court

Eminent Domain First Amendment Private Property
First Amendment case is Florida man’s second to reach Supreme Court

Eminent Domain First Amendment Private Property
EDITORIAL: California law prohibits man from learning a trade

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Oregon’s engineering board admits fault but doesn’t want to change the law. Oregon Doesn’t Want to Give Up the Power to Fine People for Saying ‘I Am an Engineer’

First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Former WWE star now fighting shady political attacks

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
FAN 168 (First Amendment News) Resolution of wedding cake case — is it all about fashioning the facts?

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Are garage sales without worth in Fort Worth?

First Amendment Sign Codes
Horseshoeing school sues California for ban on teaching students without high school diploma

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Speech
Teaching horseshoeing shouldn’t be illegal

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Horseshoeing school sues California for ban on teaching students without high school diploma

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Lawsuit

Lawsuit Challenges California Law Criminalizing Teaching Trade Skills California Trade Schools

Filed: 1508803200October 24, 2017

Location: Sacramento, CA

Status: Pending

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Speech
Legal Battle on Skim Milk Causes Florida to Pay $437,000

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Florida Playbook

Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom Occupational Speech
$437,000 in Legal Fees Flow From All-Natural Skim Milk Fight

Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom Occupational Speech
Florida pays nearly $437,000 after losing skim milk battle

Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom Occupational Speech
Florida pays $437,000 in dispute over skim milk

Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom Occupational Speech
GOP lawmaker to file free-speech lawsuit against Texas Southern University over canceled speech

First Amendment
Licensing burden censors free speech

First Amendment Health Occupational Speech
FL Threatened This Woman With Jail Time for Giving Diet Tips Without a License

Economic Liberty First Amendment Health Occupational Speech
OUR VIEW: Health coach should be able to give advice

First Amendment Health Occupational Speech
Unpacking the Latest Crypto Scare

First Amendment Food Freedom Occupational Speech
Florida Woman’s Unlicensed Diet Tips Results in Threat of Jail

Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
City funnels preservation fees elsewhere

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Florida Threatens Woman with Fines, Jail for Giving Diet Tips

First Amendment Food Freedom Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Super Mario inflatable can stay Game on

Commercial Speech First Amendment Sign Codes
Debt relief for Puerto Rico? — Scott to raise money for CFO Patronis — Hollywood neighbors sue to keep Confederate street names — Welcome to the world, Henry Joel Levine

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Lawsuit

Florida Health Coach Threatened with Jail and Big Fines for Merely Offering Dietary Advice Florida Diet Coaching

Filed: 1506988800October 3, 2017

Location: Pensacola, FL

Status: Pending

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Press Release

Major Lawsuit Challenges Censorship of Dietary Advice Florida to Health Coach: No License, No Speech

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Local health coach files First Amendment lawsuit

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Health coach sues state’s health department

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Florida health coach files lawsuit to challenge dietary advice censorship

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Health coach claims Florida licensing laws violate First Amendment

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Health coach sues Florida Department of Health

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Press Release

Mario Wins: Game Over for Orange Park Sign Code

Commercial Speech First Amendment Sign Codes
Super! Town allows inflatable Mario back outside game store

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Lawsuit against Charleston’s tour guide license rule headed for trial after judge refuses to settle it

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Unlicensed Tour Guides Not Allowed in Savannah

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Stossel: Tour Guides Under Attack

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Makeup artist challenges makeup school licensing requirement

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Lawsuit

License to Teach: North Carolina Forces Makeup Artists to Teach Unrelated Skills or Face Thousands in Fines North Carolina Makeup Schools

Filed: 1503446400August 23, 2017

Location: Charlotte, NC

Status: Closed

Cosmetology Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Press Release

State Forces Makeup Artists to Spend Hundreds of Hours Teaching Unrelated Topics Before They Can Teach Makeup North Carolina Makeup Artist Challenges Ban On Makeup Schools

First Amendment Occupational Speech
A fine for a Yelp sticker? Sign ordinance no friend of small biz.

First Amendment Sign Codes
Blog Post

Washington City Rains on Yard Sales

First Amendment Sign Codes
Oregon Town Cracks Down on Pot-Selling Robotic Blonde Mannequins

First Amendment Sign Codes
Blog Post

Dentists Get a Special Reason to Smile in Appeals Court Decision

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Dairy now selling its all natural skim milk after five year court battle

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Mats Järlström: I Am an Engineer

First Amendment
After he was fined, Mats Järlström took the matter to the court and so far he is being favored. That Guy Who Got Fined for Calling Himself an Engineer Temporarily Wins Right to Call Himself an Engineer

First Amendment
Engineering without a license

First Amendment
Federal judge, public, skeptical over Oregon Engineering Board attempt to gag citizen engineer for publicly criticizing yellow signal timing. Oregon Gag Order Against Red Light Camera Critic Backfires

First Amendment
Oregon Man Fined for Doing Math Without a License Speaks Out

First Amendment
NOTW: Electric building shakers, illegal engineering and people who sue kindergartners

First Amendment
Federal judge sides with Oregon Man accused of illegally using the word ‘engineer’

First Amendment
Licensing Body Agrees To Temporarily Allow Man To Criticize The Government Without A License

First Amendment
Right to speak freely about engineering is subject of 1st Amendment lawsuit

First Amendment
Press Release

Federal judge issues order allowing Mats Järlström to discuss traffic light timing while his lawsuit proceeds through the courts Temporary Reprieve: Oregon Allows Traffic Light Talk While Lawsuit Proceeds

First Amendment
Oregon Man Fined for Writing ‘I Am an Engineer’ Temporarily Wins the Right to Call Himself an ‘Engineer’

First Amendment
Technically critiquing traffic-light policy without an engineering license => $500 fine (and prospect of more)

First Amendment
Another Colorado ‘social welfare’ nonprofit just got fined for improperly playing in elections

Campaign Speech First Amendment
The Constitution protects criticism of the government—even when the criticism contains math

First Amendment
Oregon and Speech Control

First Amendment
Oregon Man Fined $500 for Challenging Timing on Red-Light Cameras

First Amendment
EDITORIAL: Oregon goes after man who criticized traffic light timing

First Amendment
Oregon Is Abusing Its Authority to Regulate Professional Licensing to Silence Its Critics

First Amendment
Citizen Scientist Challenges Math Behind Red Light Camera Tickets

First Amendment
‘I felt violated,’ says U.S. man fined $500 for talking about traffic lights

First Amendment
Beaverton Man Claims Oregon Board Violated His First Amendment Rights

First Amendment
Oregon Man Fined for Engineering Without a License

First Amendment
Traffic cameras might be unfairly ticketing drivers based on bad math

First Amendment
Traffic-light critic fined: Licensing run amok

First Amendment
Mats Järlström tried to help an Oregon city with a traffic light problem, and was rewarded with a $500 fine. Man Fined for Engineering without a License

First Amendment
Colorado Supreme Court hears dispute on whether legal fees count as political donations

Campaign Speech First Amendment
An Embarrassing Mess

First Amendment
Man Dares to Point out Mathematical Flaw in Red Light Camera System; Is Fined and Silenced by Government

First Amendment
This Alabama Law may limit your First Amendment rights in ways you didn't realize. Do Alabamians Really Have The Freedom of Speech?

First Amendment
Red Light Cameras May Issue Tickets Based on Bogus Math

First Amendment
Libertarians defend Swede fined $500 for pointing out flaw in US traffic lights

First Amendment
Electrical engineer fined for ‘practicing engineering’ without a license after exposing traffic light flaw

First Amendment
Yellow-Light Crusader Fined for Doing Math Without a License

First Amendment
Welcome to the crazy world of Oregon state law ‘I feel violated’: Engineer who pointed out traffic signals flaw fined for ‘unlicensed engineering’

First Amendment
Traffic critic didn’t count on getting fined for using math

First Amendment
Driving News Roundup: April 28, 2017

First Amendment
Calling Himself An ‘Engineer’ Got This Man Fined $500

First Amendment
Man Fined For Advocating Change To Traffic Lights Without Engineering Registration

First Amendment
Judge says ex-Congressman Bob Beauprez’s group must pay $17,000 in campaign finance fines

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Engineer Sues for Right to Call Out Traffic Camera Problems

First Amendment
Engineer fined $500 for calling himself ‘engineer’

First Amendment
Oregon Man Fined for Talking About Traffic Lights Sues

First Amendment
Oregon fines citizen for criticizing yellow light timing

First Amendment
Man Fined For Uncovering Incorrectly Timed Red Light Cameras

First Amendment
Oregon Man Fined $500 for ‘Unlawful’ Study That Found Yellow Stoplights Are Too Short

First Amendment
Oregon yellow light critic files free speech lawsuit

First Amendment
Fined for questioning without a license

First Amendment
Man challenges red-light cameras, gets fined $500 for practicing engineering without a license

First Amendment
Oregon Red Light Ticket Objector, Clearly a Glutton for Punishment, Continues Fight

First Amendment
Talking About How Traffic Light Timing Works Will Get You Fined $500 In Oregon

First Amendment
Traffic lights are an apparently simple thing, which can make or break your commute.

First Amendment
It's a free-speech issue. And math is math, Oregon! Oregon fines man $500 for using math to challenge red-light cameras

First Amendment
Electronics engineer who was fined $500 for writing ‘I am an engineer’ in an email to Oregon officials complaining about faulty traffic lights is now suing

First Amendment
Engineer Fined for Saying He’s an Engineer

First Amendment
Oregon officials say Mats Järlström performed engineering work without a license. He says the First Amendment allows it. Man Fined $500 for Criticizing Traffic Cameras With Math

First Amendment
Oregon fines man $500 for using math to challenge red-light cameras

First Amendment
from the with-a-special-appearance-by-[STATE-REVENUE-GENERATOR-A] dept Guy Fined $500 For Criticizing Government Without A Permit Sues Oregon Licensing Board

First Amendment
Oregon Man Claims State Muzzles Red Light Camera Critique

First Amendment
State Board claims only licensed engineers can publicly engage in "mathematical criticism" of its traffic technology. Oregon Man Fined $500 for Criticizing Red Light Cameras, Not Being an Engineer

First Amendment
"Anyone should be allowed to talk about the traffic signals without being penalized," says Mats Järlström. He's suing the board. After Challenging Red Light Cameras, Oregon Man Fined $500 for Practicing Engineering Without a License

First Amendment
Oregon Man Suing State After Being Fined For Investigating Traffic Light Timing

First Amendment
Lawsuit: State of Oregon doesn’t own word ‘engineer’

First Amendment
Red light camera critic says state board quashing his free speech

First Amendment
An electronics engineer says he found a flaw in traffic lights. The Oregon engineering board fined him for it. Man Fined $500 for Crime of Writing ‘I Am An Engineer’ in an Email to the Government

First Amendment
Press Release

After Mats Järlström’s wife got a red-light camera ticket, Oregon fined him $500 for questioning its traffic light timing Lawsuit Challenges Oregon Law Prohibiting Mathematical Criticism Without a License

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Illegal Math? A state board in Oregon is punishing people for talking about traffic lights and any other “engineering” topics Oregon Engineering Speech

Filed: 1493078400April 25, 2017

Location: Beaverton, OR

Status: Pending

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Press Release

Following federal lawsuit, Alabama Ethics Commission drops burdensome, in-state training for groups that petition government Victory for Political Speech in Alabama

First Amendment
What Did We Miss? Man Hands Portland Mayor A Pepsi In Tense Awkward Moment

Commercial Speech First Amendment Sign Codes
Inflatable Mario Spurs Game Store Feud With City, Free Speech Suit

Commercial Speech First Amendment Sign Codes
The owner of a video game store is angry he can no longer display the Nintendo icon. An Inflatable Mario and a Free-Speech Lawsuit

Commercial Speech First Amendment Sign Codes
Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

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Orange Park videogame store not willing to say ‘game over’ for Mario display

Commercial Speech First Amendment
City forces business owner to take down inflatable Super Mario, takes case to court

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Claims city's sign code is unconstitutional Video game store owner sues Florida town over ‘illegal’ inflatable Mario display

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Super Mario 2017: Mario vs. City Hall

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Florida man sues to keep inflatable Super Mario outside business

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Sunburn for 4.7.17 – Uber victory; Bondi didn’t bribe; Thank you for being you, Mr. Speaker; Perry Thurston is everywhere!; Worm gruntin’

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Retro game store owner banned from using inflatable Super Mario, ’cause reasons

Commercial Speech First Amendment
No ruling yet in Charleston tour guide “free speech” lawsuit

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Florida video game shop owner claims First Amendment violation over town’s inflatable Mario ban

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Gone Broke Gaming announces lawsuit on steps of federal courthouse Florida business owner challenges ban on inflatable Super Mario

Commercial Speech First Amendment
City Says ‘Game Over’ To Orange Park Business Over Right To Display Inflatable Mario

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Orange Park man sues over inflatable Super Mario

Commercial Speech First Amendment
No decision made in federal tour guide license lawsuit, case could go to trial

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Florida City Says ‘Game Over’ to Inflatable Super Mario

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Federal judge defers decision on whether city of Charleston’s tour guide rules violate free speech

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Charleston tour guides say city is muzzling their first amendment rights

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Testing the test Both sides await judge’s ruling on lawsuit challenging Charleston’s tour guide laws

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Press Release

Institute for Justice Partners with Video Game Store to Defend Free Speech Lawsuit Pits Super Mario Against Florida Town’s Sign Ban

Commercial Speech First Amendment Sign Codes
5 Things to Know in Florida for April 7

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Scott Fisher and Gone Broke Gaming

Commercial Speech First Amendment Sign Codes
Lawsuit

Video game store sues to protect its inflatable Mario sign Orange Park Sign

Filed: 1491436800April 6, 2017

Location: Jacksonville, FL

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech First Amendment Sign Codes
Charleston tour guides ask federal judge to find licensing law unconstitutional

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Charleston tour guide lawsuit goes to court

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Charleston tour guides fight city hall in free speech rights case

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
A dark money lawsuit, a colorful cast of characters, and Colorado’s citizen campaign finance cop

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Matt Arnold versus the world, Bob Beauprez and The Gazette A sordid tale of Colorado campaign finance

Campaign Speech First Amendment
State Violated Dairy’s Free Speech Right to Advertise ‘Skim Milk’

First Amendment Food Freedom
First Amendment Battles

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Donor Anonymity and the Free Speech Wars

Campaign Speech First Amendment
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt an important ruling for food freedom this week. Appeals Court Embraces Free Speech, Rules Skim Milk is ‘Skim Milk’

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Editorial: Needless regulations take away our freedoms

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Local creamery will soon be able to label its milk “skim milk”

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
A Short Guide To Reading A Milk Label: Fat Content, Lactose, Or Raw, Plus Other Terms On The Carton

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Why There’s a Fight Over What to Call Skim Milk in Florida

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Federal appeals court sides with small dairy farm against state regulators

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Who’s Crying Now? Creamery Wins Legal Fight Over Spilt Skim Milk

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty Food Freedom Food Freedom
Florida court rules in favor of creamery in skim milk labeling case

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
It's a little less confusing than it sounds. You Can Call Skim Milk ‘Skim Milk’ in Florida Once Again

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Sometimes skim milk is skim milk

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Whether Adam Putnam likes it or not, it’s still OK to tell the truth

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Dairy wins battle over skim milk label

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Whether Adam Putnam likes it or not, it’s still OK to tell the truth

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Florida creamery can label product as skim milk

Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom Food Freedom
A decision so plainly obvious must have roots in intrusive government regulations. Good News! A Court Has Ruled This Skim Milk Can Be Called Skim Milk!

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty Food Freedom Food Freedom
OK to call skim milk ‘skim milk’

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom Food Freedom
End Missouri’s hair braiding licensing scheme

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty Food Freedom Food Freedom
Press Release

Court Ruled That Florida Cannot Ban Business From Truthfully Labeling Its Skim Milk Victory for Ocheesee Creamery in Federal Court of Appeals

First Amendment Food Freedom
Florida’s Definition Of Skim Milk As “Imitation Milk Product” Ruled Unconstitutional

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Federal court rules against Florida in skim milk labeling fight

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Court: Florida Dairy’s Skim Milk Is Skim Milk, Not Imitation

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom
Defending Volunteers — Ron Hines and Carroll Landrum

Commercial Speech First Amendment Health
Blog Post

Big Dairy Declares War on Milk

First Amendment Food Freedom
Creating jobs by cutting red tape

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Sign Codes
Denver journalist backs out of running the left’s ‘answer to Breitbart’

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Small dairy farmer seeks First Amendment protection from state regulators

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Institute For Justice Describes “Kafkaesque Process” In Horne, Winn Amicus Brief

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Economic Liberty First Amendment Hair Braiding Health Sign Codes
Blog Post

End Missouri’s Alcohol Advertising Ban Show Me the Drink Specials

First Amendment Sign Codes
Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Civil Forfeiture First Amendment Private Property Sign Codes
Horne v. Polk

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Trump’s Education Secretary Nominee Is ‘The Godmother of Citizens United’

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Independence Institute v. FEC

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Campaign Speech Civil Forfeiture First Amendment Private Property
Press Release

Magistrate Judge Allows Challenge to Colorado’s “Outsourced” Campaign Finance Enforcement to Move Forward Colorado Mom Scores First-Round Victory In First Amendment Fight

First Amendment
Colorado campaign finance regulations censor ordinary citizens. Can’t Afford a Lawyer? No Free Speech for You.

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Civil Forfeiture First Amendment Private Property
Tour guides and carriage horses: Updates on two hot debates

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
DA complaint exemplifies campaign finance issue

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Press Release

New Report Adds to Evidence That Occupational Licensing Does Not Improve Quality Licenses for Tour Guides? It’s Unconstitutional and It Doesn’t Work

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Tour Guides
Chicago Police’ hidden forfeiture program reaps millions

Civil Forfeiture Private Property Sign Codes
Report

How Licenses for Tour Guides Fail Consumers—and Guides Putting Licensing to the Test

Commercial Speech First Amendment Occupational Licensing
Colorado Supreme Court set to hear appeal over legal services being treated like campaign contributions

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Dairy Lobby Sides with Florida in Orwellian Attempt to Redefine ‘Skim Milk’

First Amendment Food Freedom
Press Release

Court Will Decide if Speakers Can Rely on Pro Bono Legal Help When Talking About Politics Colorado Supreme Court Will Hear Free Speech Appeal

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Why a N.J. business owner owes $40K in fines for this flag

First Amendment Sign Codes
Pot Lobbyists Fight Alabama Training Policy

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Blog Post

Complete a Class Before You Can Exercise First Amendment Rights in Alabama

First Amendment
Blog Post

25 Reasons to Celebrate IJ’s 25th Anniversary

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Pro-marijuana group challenges Alabama lobbying law

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Lawsuit Challenges Alabama Law Requiring Ethics Training for Lobbyists

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Lawsuit

Alabama prohibits nonprofit worker from speaking and petitioning the government unless she first flies to Alabama to take a government-mandated ethics class Alabama Right to Petition

Filed: 1472601600August 31, 2016

Location: Montgomery

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Press Release

Alabama law requires out-of-state speakers to travel to Montgomery for training Federal Lawsuit Challenges Government-Mandated Training for Political Speakers

First Amendment
Federal lawsuit challenges Alabama requirement for ethics training before lobbying public officials

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Do Alabama policies violate the First Amendment?

Campaign Speech First Amendment
ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE: A Campaign Finance Ruling and its Unintended Consequences

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Colorado’s campaign-finance bullies threaten free speech

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Electronics expert presents red light camera findings

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Recent Court of Appeals Ruling Disarms Political Speakers, Empowers Campaign Finance Bullies Colorado Lawyer Free Speech

Filed: 1471478400August 18, 2016

Location: Denver, Colorado

Status: Closed

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Press Release

Recent Court of Appeals Ruling Disarms Political Speakers, Empowers Campaign Finance Bullies Colorado Supreme Court Must Stand Up For Free Speech

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Are red light cameras rigged against the laws of nature?

First Amendment
When politicians turn censor

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Blog Post

Denver Now Licensing Airbnb Services

First Amendment Private Property
Both sides face setbacks in legal battle over Charleston’s tour guide laws

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Federal judge rejects motion to dismiss tour guide suit

First Amendment Tour Guides
U.S. Judge lets Charleston tour guide lawsuit proceed

First Amendment Tour Guides
Tour guides winning the fight for freedom

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Kentucky psychology board’s effort to silence me, protect turf failed

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Jim Dey: Hey buddy, First Amendment says I can hit you up

First Amendment
Yes, the First Amendment Protects Panhandling: A Defense of the Supreme Court’s ‘Free Speech Absolutism’

First Amendment Other
Letter: Licensing tour guides limits speech

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Blog Post

Supreme Court Dishes Out Free Speech Victory

First Amendment
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign

First Amendment Sign Codes
Supreme Court Strikes Blow for Free Speech — and Against Arbitrary Government

First Amendment
Corporate Pork: It’s What’s for Dinner

First Amendment Food Freedom
A Political Attack On Free Speech And Privacy Thwarted — For Now

First Amendment
Assure tour guide credibility

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Storytelling Suit: Judge mulls arguments in tour guide case

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Charleston Tour Guides get their day in court

First Amendment Tour Guides
Charleston tour guides enter federal court for First Amendment lawsuit

First Amendment Tour Guides
Judge delays dismissal decision in Charleston tour guide lawsuit

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Judge hears Charleston’s tour guide licensing case

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Delusional Judge orders company to label all-natural milk ‘IMITATION,’ and has thousands of gallons flushed down the drain

First Amendment Food Freedom
Charleston moves to ease licensing rules for tour guides

First Amendment Tour Guides
City tweaking tour guide license rules

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Charleston City Council changes tour guide rules, opponents say it’s not enough

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
City Council to consider changes to tour guide licensing laws

First Amendment Tour Guides
This is what happens when government regulators control definitions of words. Federal Judge Rules Skim Milk Isn’t ‘Skim Milk’

First Amendment Food Freedom
Press Release

Small Town Mom Cleared of Speech Code Violations First Round Victory in Challenge to Colorado’s “Outsourced” Campaign Finance Enforcement

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Court Denies Review in Campaign Finance Case

Campaign Speech First Amendment
There’s a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Afoot, Fueled by Dark Money

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Press Release

Ocheesee Creamery Still Banned from Truthfully Labeling Its Skim Milk Federal Court Keeps Florida Creamery Censored

First Amendment Food Freedom
Judge Says Creamery’s All-Natural Skim Milk Isn’t Skim Milk

First Amendment Food Freedom
Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association: Down but not out

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Court Agrees With Florida: Skim Milk Is “Imitation Milk Product” Unless You Add Vitamins

First Amendment Food Freedom
Federal Court Upholds Donation Privacy Rights

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Colorado’s low threshold for triggering campaign finance laws (2 letters)

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Press Release

IJ Asks Supreme Court to Free Small Grassroots Group from Burdens of Regulatory Scheme Too Onerous for Sophisticated Corporations and Unions IJ to Supreme Court: Protect Citizen Speech

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Charleston’s tour-guide regulations violate free speech

First Amendment Tour Guides
This Veterinarian’s License Was Suspended for Giving Advice Online. Were His Rights Violated?

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Letter: Keep licensing tour guides

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Robocalls, Panhandling & Ballot Selfies? Thanks SCOTUS!

First Amendment Sign Codes
Want to Give a Tour of Washington, DC? You’ll Need a License for That

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
The Many Ills of Campaign Money

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Wollschlaeger v. Governor of Florida

First Amendment
This Mom Wanted Voters to Pay Attention to an Election. Instead, She Got Sued.

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Blog Post

IJ Testifies Before Senate Committee Hearing on Licensing

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Unusual procedure calls for referrals to judges Lawsuit tackles campaign finance enforcement

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Greendale cupcake business on hiatus to advocate for statewide ‘Cookie Bill’

Economic Liberty Food Freedom
Letter: High standards for tour guides

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Small Business Scores Victory Over City in Protest of Property Seizure

First Amendment Sign Codes
Assuring tour-guide quality

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Blog Post

Do You Have a Talker’s Permit?

First Amendment Tour Guides
Press Release

Another Victory for Virginia Property Owner in Sign Fight: Federal Appeals Court Rules City of Norfolk Violated the First Amendment

First Amendment Sign Codes
Federal court: Norfolk violated Central Radio’s right to free speech in eminent domain dispute

First Amendment Sign Codes
Charleston next city in line for lawsuit over tour guide licensing

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
This is why we license tour guides

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Press Release

Group Fights Back with Major First Amendment Lawsuit Charleston Tour Guides Challenge Unconstitutional License to Talk

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Lawsuit

Charleston Tour Guides Challenge Unconstitutional License to Talk Charleston Tour Guides

Filed: 1453939200January 28, 2016

Location: Charleston, South Carolina

Status: Pending

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Would-be tour guide trio calls Charleston’s licensing practices unconstitutional

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Lawsuit: Charleston tour guide licenses shouldn’t be required

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Charleston tour guide tests trigger free-speech lawsuit

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Blog Post

Free Speech Means Not Needing a Lawyer on Speed Dial Before You Can Voice Your Opinion

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Charleston tour guide licensing to face court challenge

Economic Liberty First Amendment Tour Guides
Critics: Colorado ‘outsourced’ campaign finance enforcement

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Election ad feud morphs into federal suit

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Colorado's campaign finance laws are "rife with abuse." Colorado Mom Sued Over Newspaper Ads Encouraging Voter Turnout in School Board Election

Campaign Speech First Amendment
We’re the only state where private citizens must pay to prosecute complaints while politicians can use state money to defend them Federal lawsuit attacks Colorado’s money-in-politics enforcement system

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Guest Commentary: Fighting Colorado’s campaign-finance vigilantes

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Press Release

Mom Fights Back with First Amendment Lawsuit Politicians Sue Colorado Mom into Silence Over Newspaper Ads

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Colorado’s private-enforcement law empowers political insiders to silence any ordinary speaker they disagree with. Colorado Private Enforcement

Filed: 1453334400January 21, 2016

Location: Denver, CO

Status: Pending

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Court Strikes Down Tattoo Shop Ban, Rules Jimmy Buffett Lyrics Don’t Justify Speech-Infringing Law

First Amendment
Blog Post

Should public school teachers be forced to pay for speech they don’t agree with? IJ says no.

Educational Choice First Amendment
Press Release

Federal Court of Appeals Upheld Regulations on Group of Friends That the Supreme Court Said Were Too Burdensome Even for Corporations and Unions IJ Asks Supreme Court to Protect Grassroots Speech

First Amendment
Doctors Will Challenge Panel’s Latest Ruling on Florida Law Restricting Gun Talk

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Federal Court To Sheriff: First Amendment Doesn’t Grant The Government The Power To Censor Speech

First Amendment
AVMA to create model standards for veterinarians Free speech case rejected but telemedicine debate remains

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Veterinarian denied hearing on online-advice ban

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Blog Post

Occupational Speech Still Needs to be Reconciled by the U.S. Supreme Court

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Taxing campaign spending

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Supreme Court declines to review ‘Internet vet’ case

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Supreme Court declines to review case on legality of online veterinary services

First Amendment Occupational Speech
After veterinary case rejected, questions remain

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Supreme Court Will Not Review Case on Online Pet Advice

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Supreme Court lets stand Texas law limiting online advice from veterinarians about sick pets

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Judge Posner to Speech-Squelching Sheriff: Cease and Desist

First Amendment Other
U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Review Veterinarian’s Free-Speech Claim

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Does veterinary case point the way to telemedicine’s next legal battleground?

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Veterinarian Loses Case Over Internet Consultations

First Amendment Occupational Speech
U.S. top court rejects Texas veterinarian’s pet-care advice case

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Supreme Court Rebuffs Brownsville Online Veterinarian

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Despite the rejection of his online consulting, the legal challenge was worthwhile, Dr. Ronald Hines says. Internet Vet Loses Court Fight

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Citizens United: Voters aren’t mindless

Campaign Speech First Amendment
It’s wrong to call for brakes on super PAC spending

Campaign Speech First Amendment
FAN 86 (First Amendment News) Court may rule on occupational-speech petition soon

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Colluding Campaign Finance Regulators Refuse to Disclose Secret Emails

Campaign Speech First Amendment
The bizarre case law that upholds free speech courts like and bans speech they don’t. Does the First Amendment Protect Professionals?

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Professional-client speech and the First Amendment

First Amendment Occupational Speech
A threat to freedom of speech at the Supreme Court

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Freedom of speech includes talking about pets Freedom of speech includes talking about pets

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Defining ‘One Person, One Vote’: The Supreme Court Returns to the Political Thicket

First Amendment Other
FAN 83.2 (First Amendment News) Court Declines to Hear Compelled Discourse Case

First Amendment
Center For Competitive Politics v. Harris: Will The Supreme Court Hear Case On Nonprofit Donor Anonymity?

First Amendment
Fees awarded in campaign law challenge, bleak prognostication for law schools, and Subway settlement looms

Campaign Speech First Amendment
State campaign finance board agrees to pay more than $100,000 in settlement

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Minnesota agrees to pay $100,000 in lawyer fees for group that sued over campaign donor limits

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Counterpoint: Tour guide licensing is unconstitutional

First Amendment Tour Guides
Editorial: Tour guide threat all fluff and bluff in St. Augustine

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Sing us a Song, You’re the Potato Man

First Amendment Sign Codes
Arizona Citizens May Now Speak Freely About Elections

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Licensed parenting advice?

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Letters to the editor: Oct. 18

First Amendment Occupational Speech
EDITORIAL: A license for an advice column?

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Press Release

Facing Looming Court Decision, City Repeals Law Challenged Under First Amendment Victory for Savannah Tour Guides

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Amid Ongoing Legal Battle, Savannah Likely to End Requirement That Tour Guides Pass Test

First Amendment Tour Guides
Savannah prepares retreat in speech fight with tour guides

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Carolina Journal Online: Covering news, politics, and policy in North Carolina

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Is consolidation of Savannah, Chatham County on the way? Is it a good idea?

First Amendment Tour Guides
Federal judge: Psychologist did not need state license to give advice to parents in newspaper column

First Amendment Occupational Speech
News briefs from around Kentucky at 1:58 a.m. EDT

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Rosemond Ruling Highlights Unresolved First Amendment Question

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Judge Blocks Kentucky’s Absurd Attempt to Censor ‘Unlicensed’ Advice Columnist

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Press Release

Federal Court Halts Psychology-Board Censorship; Psychology Board’s “Regulatory Zeal” Prompts Judge to Issue “‘Wake Up’ Call” Victory for Advice Columnist

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Judge: State psychology board can’t regulate advice column

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Federal judge rules in favor of columnist John Rosemond in lawsuit against psychology board

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Why does Florida call fresh skim milk ‘imitation milk’?

First Amendment Food Freedom
Walker Campaign Money

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Groups Fight Regulation Requiring Donor Lists on Taxes

First Amendment
Florida orders dairy to mislabel all-natural skim milk with “imitation” label to mislead consumers

First Amendment Food Freedom
Lawless, Unethical Attorneys General Attack Tocqueville’s Democracy

First Amendment
In Buchanan, signs point to a stalemate in free speech battle

First Amendment Sign Codes
Experts say Portsmouth’s fines on council members could violate free speech

First Amendment
Washington v. Washington Education Association

First Amendment
Federal Court: Ban On Panhandling Violates Homeless People’s Constitutional Rights

First Amendment
Florida Is Being Sued for Labeling Skim Milk as ‘Imitation Milk’

First Amendment Food Freedom
Adventures in cruelty free shopping. Will a Texas radio Veterinarian get shut down? Dog and cat vaccinations – all you need to know.

First Amendment Occupational Speech
All-natural milk must be labeled ‘imitation,’ hurts dairy sales

First Amendment Food Freedom
A Dozen Things ‘The New Yorker’ Gets Wrong about Free Speech (And Why It Matters)

First Amendment
Government Forces Natural Skim Milk Sellers to Label Their Milk “Imitation”

First Amendment Food Freedom
Gov’t to creamery: Your milk is entirely too natural to not be labeled “imitation”

First Amendment Food Freedom
Florida Skim Milk Is Imitation Without Added Vitamins

First Amendment Food Freedom
Florida Says Skim Milk Is “Imitation Milk Product” Unless You Add Vitamins

First Amendment Food Freedom
Calhoun County Dairy Farms Sues Over Milk Label

First Amendment Food Freedom
Protecting Free Speech

First Amendment
Skim milk labeling goes before federal judge

First Amendment Food Freedom
Local Dairy and State of Florida Battle over “Skim Milk”

First Amendment Food Freedom
State: Skim Milk With No Added Vitamins Is ‘Imitation’

First Amendment Food Freedom
Savannah tour guides say city uses testing to control speech

First Amendment Tour Guides
HINKLE: In Buchanan, stomping on speech

First Amendment
Gedge: Having snuffed out dancing, Buchanan sets its sights on political speech

First Amendment Sign Codes
FAN 71 (First Amendment News) Just Released: 2nd ed. of Cogan’s “The Complete Bill of Rights” — 30 New Pages on History of Press & Assembly Clauses

First Amendment
Buchanan, couple at odds over signs criticizing town

First Amendment Sign Codes
Protest signs on a Buchanan storefront point to a free speech battle

First Amendment Sign Codes
Reed v. Town of Gilbert Supreme Court Ruling Affects Local Sign Codes

First Amendment
"Noncensorial" motives for limiting expression less likely to pass muster. Op-Ed: A Positive Sign for Free Speech in ‘Town of Gilbert’ Decision

First Amendment
Oregon: bakers’ statements to national media were “unlawful”

First Amendment
Editorial: About face, march

First Amendment
Press Release

First the Government Tried to Illegally Take Their Land, Then the Government Silenced Their Protest Designed to Protect Their Land Victory for Virginia Property Owner in Sign Fight: U.S. Supreme Court Vacates Lower Court Ruling That Government Could Suppress Protest Banner

First Amendment Sign Codes
Pay no attention to those who want to abolish SCOTUS Get Rid of the Supreme Court? No Thanks

First Amendment
Good intentions do not give government a license to silence speech

First Amendment
Rowell v. Pettijohn

First Amendment
Press Release

Governor Dayton Signs Law Repealing Minnesota’s ‘Special Sources Limit’ Following 2014 Federal Challenge Final Victory Against Restrictive Minnesota Campaign Finance Law

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Uncle Sam’s attack on Times Square means trouble across US

First Amendment Sign Codes
Press Release

Case Involves Government’s Attempt to Silence Speech Protesting an Illegal Taking of Private Property First Amendment Scholars, National Free Speech Group, Prominent Activist and Low-Income Housing Provider Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Major Case at the Intersection of Free Speech and Property Rights

Eminent Domain First Amendment Private Property Sign Codes
No Future for Futures Speech?

First Amendment
Another Sign Case Comes to the Court

First Amendment Sign Codes
Can a city suppress speech protesting eminent domain?

First Amendment Sign Codes
Press Release

First the Government Tried to Illegally Take Their Land, Then the Government Silenced Them So They Couldn’t Hang a Protest Banner on Their Own Property Case Appealed to U.S. Supreme Court Shows How If We Lose One Right, We Can Lose Them All

Eminent Domain First Amendment Private Property Sign Codes
We’re going to eminent domain you, and then we’re going to bar you from complaining about it

First Amendment Sign Codes
Press Release

Government Agency Used Campaign Finance Laws to Try to Silence Her Then Attempted To Prosecute Her for Her Pro Bono Legal Help in Civil Rights Case Washington State Government Throws in the Towel After Four Years of Battling Ordinary Citizens Who Dared to Engage in Political Speech

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Press Release

Texas Veterinarian Will Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Free Speech Case about Advice over the Internet

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Texas Web Vet Loses Court Appeal

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Tour guides press ahead with speech lawsuit against Savannah

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Report

Occupational Speech and the First Amendment

First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Tour Guide Tax

First Amendment Tour Guides
Candidates cash in on court-ordered end to donor limits – Watchdog.org

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Bill would allow raw milk to be advertised in Oregon

Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom Food Freedom
Press Release

Analysis: Free Speech Wins in Minn. 2014 Election Season

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Press Release

Victory for ‘Caveman’ Blogger in Free Speech Fight

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Big bucks, bunnies & bureaucrats run amok

Civil Forfeiture Economic Liberty First Amendment Private Property Tour Guides
Celebrating a First Amendment milestone

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Tying Up the First Amendment With Red Tape

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Sign restrictions curb our freedoms

First Amendment Sign Codes
Lawsuit May Reshape Tourist Industry in History-Rich Savannah

First Amendment Tour Guides
Censorship Alert

First Amendment Sign Codes
Press Release

Texas Breweries Sue State Over Alcohol Regulation

Economic Liberty Food Freedom Food Freedom Private Property
Should Tour Guides Be Licensed?

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Tour Guides
Lawsuit

Censored in Florida: Creamery Owner Sues to End Labeling Censorship Florida Skim Milk

Filed: 1416441600November 20, 2014

Location: Florida

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Lawsuit

Government Cannot Decide Who Is, Or Is Not, Allowed To Tell A Story Savannah Tour Guides

Filed: 1416182400November 17, 2014

Location: Savannah, GA

Status: Pending

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
State to citizens: Be politically engaged, but not too engaged

First Amendment
To Deal With Corruption in Campaign Finance Reduce the Size of Government

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Wollschlaeger v. Governor of Florida

First Amendment Occupational Speech
MAURER: Using political speech to settle political scores

Campaign Speech First Amendment
State campaign finance laws are on borrowed time

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Raleigh Listens to its Business Owners, Change May Come Soon

First Amendment Sign Codes
Argument before U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Tour Guides
Audio: Oral Argument, 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

First Amendment Tour Guides
Lawsuit

Donors, Candidates Sue to Overturn Restrictive Campaign Finance Law: Minnesota Regulation Dishes Out First Amendment Rights on a First-Come, First-Served Basis Minnesota Campaign Speech Limits

Filed: 1397001600April 9, 2014

Location: Minnesota

Status: Closed

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Guest: Supreme Court McCutcheon ruling protects political speech

First Amendment
John Roberts Didn’t ‘Eviscerate’ Campaign Finance Law, But He Should Have

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Nonsensical legislation hurting small businesses

Economic Liberty Food Freedom Interior Design
Shining a Light on Government Bullies

First Amendment Sign Codes
Support Front Yard Vegetable Gardens

Economic Liberty Food Freedom Private Property
The governor’s ‘fix’ is in

First Amendment
Building Industry Association of Washington v. Utter

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Got Free Speech? Oregon Dairy Farmer Challenges Censorship of Raw Milk Advertising Oregon Raw Milk

Filed: 1384819200November 19, 2013

Location: Oregon

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech First Amendment Food Freedom
Iowa Right to Life Committee v. Megan Tooker

First Amendment
Iowa Right to Life, Inc. v. Tooker Amicus

First Amendment
Protecting the Speech We Hate

First Amendment
Welch v. Brown

First Amendment Occupational Speech
It’s Time To End Our Failed Affair With Campaign Finance Laws

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Campaign regs shouldn’t silence the public

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Sacramento Sign Police Target Small Business: Gym Tells City It Needs To Get With The Program Sacramento Signs

Filed: 1376352000August 13, 2013

Location: Sacramento

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech First Amendment Sign Codes
Lawsuit

Psychology Board Censors Advice Column: America’s Longest-Running Advice Columnist Files Free Speech Lawsuit After Being Threatened with Jail and Told to Stop Publishing His Column in Kentucky Kentucky Psychology Speech

Filed: 1374105600July 18, 2013

Location: Kentucky

Status: Closed

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Advice columnist John Rosemond sues Kentucky agency, claiming censorship

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Lawsuit

Washington’s Public Disclosure Commission vs. America’s Civil Rights Laws: Government Agency Seeks to Silence Not Only Citizen Activists, But Their Public Interest Lawyers, Too Washington Recall 2: Lawyer Free Speech

Filed: 1371081600June 13, 2013

Location: Washington

Status: Closed

First Amendment
McCutcheon v. FEC

Campaign Speech
Judicial Engagement is Crucial to Protect Free Speech and Economic Liberty

Economic Liberty First Amendment
Censoring vet’s advice insults 1st Amendment

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Texas veterinarian whose license was suspended for online work challenges decision in lawsuit

First Amendment Occupational Speech
Lawsuit

Retired Texas Vet’s Free-Speech Fight to Keep Helping Animals Texas Veterinary Speech

Filed: 1365465600April 9, 2013

Location: Texas

Status: Closed

Economic Liberty First Amendment Health Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Cutting the red tape from happy hour in Virginia

Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom Sign Codes
Norfolk Virginia Free Speech-Hearing Update

First Amendment Sign Codes
Lawsuit

Putting a New Face on Liberty: Nevada Makeup Artists Fight for Their Right to Teach Nevada Makeup

Filed: 1340064000June 19, 2012

Location: Nevada

Status: Closed

Cosmetology Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
The Supreme Court has a chance to strike down the flawed principle behind restrictions on political speech. Money and the ‘Appearance of Corruption’

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Caveman Blogger Fights for Free Speech and Internet Freedom: Challenging the Government’s Authority to Censor Ordinary Advice North Carolina Free Speech

Filed: 1338336000May 30, 2012

Location: North Carolina

Status: Closed

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech
Protest Signs Not Allowed

First Amendment Sign Codes
Norfolk tries to impose radio silence

First Amendment Sign Codes
From property rights to free speech

First Amendment Sign Codes
Lawsuit

Federal Appellate Court OKs City’s Crackdown on Protest Sign:  4th Circuit fails to protect Norfolk business’ eminent domain protest banner; lawyers, business owners vow appeal to U.S. Supreme Court Norfolk, VA Sign

Filed: 1335916800May 2, 2012

Location: Norfolk, VA

Status: Closed

First Amendment Sign Codes
Appeals exhausted, anti-eminent-domain sign can stay in St. Louis

First Amendment Sign Codes
Pettifogged into silence

First Amendment
Let Noncitizens Contribute to U.S. Elections

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Do Foreigners Deserve Free-Speech Rights?

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Challenging New Orleans’ Tour-Guide Licensing Scheme NOLA Tours

Filed: 1323734400December 13, 2011

Location: New Orleans

Status: Closed

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Lawsuit

Arizona Citizen Files First Amendment Lawsuit Challenging Speech Regulations Fountain Hills, Ariz. Speech

Filed: 1320364800November 4, 2011

Location: Arizona

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Protecting Citizen Speech: Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of Mississippi Campaign Finance Regulations Continues Nationwide Campaign Mississippi Citizen Speech

Filed: 1319068800October 20, 2011

Location: Mississippi

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Report

How Campaign Finance Disclosure Laws Fail to Inform Voters and Stifle Public Debate Full Disclosure

First Amendment
The Supreme Court, Engaged in Real Analysis

First Amendment
Press Release

U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Arizona’s “Clean Elections” Act

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Campaign Finance Laws versus Good Government: Washington’s Laws Frustrate the People’s Ability to Recall Abusive Elected Officials Washington Recall

Filed: 1307404800June 7, 2011

Location: Washington

Status: Closed

First Amendment
How Campaign Finance Laws Benefit Incumbents and Insiders

First Amendment
Right of Recall Shouldn’t be Limited to the Wealthy

First Amendment
Campaign Finance Laws Thwart Grass-Roots Recall Efforts

First Amendment
In St. Louis, a protest sign meets government arrogance

First Amendment Sign Codes
Press Release

Journalist’s Story Demonstrates Need For Texas Law Protecting Citizen Speech

First Amendment
Press Release

IJ Tells Wisconsin Supreme Court: State’s Disclosure Rule Stifles Free Speech, Should be Struck Down

First Amendment
Press Release

100-plus Weigh In on the Biggest Campaign Finance Case since Citizens United

First Amendment
Wag More Dogs: Continuing the Fight

First Amendment Sign Codes
Press Release

IJ Launches Center for Judicial Engagement

First Amendment
Press Release

IJ Lawyers Appear in Federal Court Hearing to Unleash Free Speech

First Amendment
Press Release

“Clean Elections” Case before U.S. Supreme Court Seeks to End Unconstitutional Government Funding Of Political Campaigns

First Amendment
Press Release

Philly Tour Guides Take Their Fight for Free Speech to the U.S. Court of Appeals

First Amendment
Moxie Media case: Legislature should tread carefully in regulating campaign speech

First Amendment
Philly Tour Guides Return to Federal Court

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Lawsuit

IJ Fights to Unleash Free Speech: Challenging Arlington, Virginia’s Unconstitutional Sign Ordinance Shirlington Dog Park Mural

Filed: 1291248000December 2, 2010

Location: Arlington, VA

Status: Closed

Economic Liberty First Amendment Sign Codes
IJ Fights to Unleash Free Speech

First Amendment Sign Codes
Press Release

IJ Fights to Unleash Free Speech

First Amendment
Press Release

Court Will Decide Constitutionality of "Clean Elections” System U.S. Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Arizona’s Campaign Finance Scheme

First Amendment
Press Release

Can Publicly Financed Elections Survive Without Punishing Free Speech?

First Amendment
Press Release

U.S. Supreme Court Considers Whether to Hear IJ’s Challenge to Arizona’s “Clean Elections” Scheme

First Amendment
Steve Simpson Discusses Sampson v. Buescher

First Amendment
Fox Philly: “The City of Brotherly Love” is Now “The City of No” Part 1

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Speech Tour Guides
How to Keep Politics a Game of Special Interests and Insiders

Campaign Speech First Amendment
DC City Study Launch

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Tour Guides
Citizens in Florida fight for their free speech. ABC-27

First Amendment
Citizen Speech Press Conference 9-29-10

First Amendment
Your voice isn’t welcome here

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Protecting Citizen Speech: Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality Of Florida Campaign Finance Regulations Kicks Off Nationwide Campaign Florida Citizen Speech

Filed: 1285718400September 29, 2010

Location: Florida

Status: Closed

Campaign Speech First Amendment
The Litigious Legacy of Kelo

Sign Codes
IJ’s Robert McNamara discusses the DC Tours case on Fox

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Tour Guides
DC Tours press conference

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Tour Guides
License to Describe: Defeating Washington D.C.’s Tour Guide Licensing Scheme

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Tour Guides
Power Breakfast on Capitol News Connection

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Tour Guides
Lawsuit

License to Describe: Challenging Washington D.C.’s Tour-Guide Licensing Scheme D.C. Tour Guides

Filed: 1284595200September 16, 2010

Location: DC

Status: Closed

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Report

How State Campaign Finance Laws Erect Barriers to Entry for Political Entrepreneurs Keep Out

First Amendment
Press Release

Institute for Justice Asks U.S. Supreme Court To Protect Free Speech by Striking Down Arizona’s Taxpayer-Financed Campaign System

First Amendment
Report

What Does Research Say About Public Funding for Political Campaigns?

First Amendment
Grassroots Lobbying, Campaign Finance Laws and the Integrity of Democracy

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Tocqueville Meets the Speech Police

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Press Release

U.S. Supreme Court Prevents Arizona From Penalizing Free Speech During 2010 Election

First Amendment
Press Release

Ninth Circuit Deals Significant Blow to Free Speech; Court’s Ruling Reinstates So-Called “Clean Elections” Provisions

First Amendment
What right does the state have to reveal your signature on a political petition? Neighbor Against Neighbor

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Releasing names of petition signers serves no public purpose Disclosing the dangers of disclosure

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Lawsuit

Protecting Americans’ Right To Engage In Grassroots Political Activism Washington Grassroots Lobbying

Filed: 1271289600April 15, 2010

Location: Washington

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Press Release

Mowing Down the Grassroots: New Report Details How “Grassroots Lobbying” Laws Threaten Political Participation

First Amendment
Press Release

Lawsuit Seeks to Protect Americans’ Right To Most-Basic Political Speech: Talking to Their Neighbors

First Amendment
Press Release

9th Circuit Hearing Arguments Today In Landmark Free Speech Case

First Amendment
Report

How Grassroots Lobbying Disclosure Supresses Political Participation Mowing Down the Grassroots

First Amendment
Another victory for free speech

First Amendment
Press Release

Institute for Justice Asks 9th Circuit to Affirm Decision That Arizona’s Campaign Financing Scheme is Unconstitutional

First Amendment
Report

The Regulation of Grassroots Lobbying

First Amendment
WFAA-TV Follows IJ’s Matt Miller As He Hands Out Posters Protesting the Dallas Sign Ban

Economic Liberty First Amendment Sign Codes
Press Release

The Next Big Campaign Finance Case

First Amendment
Press Release

Dispelling the Top Five Citizens United Decision Myths

First Amendment
Press Release

Federal Court Strikes Down “Matching Funds” In Arizona Taxpayer-funded Elections Scheme

First Amendment
Green Party, et al. v. Garfield, et al.

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Lawsuit

Teaching is Not a Crime: Challenging Virginia’s Unconstitutional Vocational School Licensing Law Virginia Yoga Challenge

Filed: 1259625600December 1, 2009

Location: Virginia

Status: Closed

Economic Liberty First Amendment
Lawsuit

Dallas Sign Ban Hurts Small Businesses, Violates First Amendment Rights: Law Makes It Nearly Impossible For Entrepreneurs to Advertise Dallas Sign Ban

Filed: 1257811200November 10, 2009

Location: Dallas

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Sign Codes
Anonymity fight not over

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Report

Comment on A Cold Breeze in California: ProtectMarriage Reveals the Chilling Effect of Campaign Finance Disclosure on Ballot Measure Issue Advocacy Attack Ballot Issue Disclosure Root and Branch

First Amendment
Politics for Professionals Only

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Press Release

IJ Statement on Citizens United:

First Amendment
Citizens United v. FEC

Campaign Speech
Press Release

Federal Judge Dismisses Philly Tour-Guide Lawsuit

First Amendment
Press Release

First Amendment Blockbuster at the Supreme Court

First Amendment
Press Release

Final Victory for First Amendment Rights in Florida: State Declines to Appeal Ruling Striking Down “Electioneering Communications” Law

First Amendment
Press Release

Arizona Clean Elections Scheme Violates First Amendment Rights, Say Candidates and Independent Groups

First Amendment
Report

How Electioneering Communications Laws Stifle Free Speech and Civic Engagement Locking Up Political Speech

First Amendment
Report

Strangling Free Speech & Political Debate Campaign Finance Red Tape

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Free to Design: Challenging Florida’s Unconstitutional Interior Design Law Florida Interior Design

Filed: 1243382400May 27, 2009

Location: Florida

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Interior Design Interior Design
Press Release

First Amendment Victory: Federal Court Strikes Down Florida’s “Electioneering Communications” Law

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Mandatory Disclosure for Ballot-Initiative Campaigns

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Prof. Richard Epstein Dismissed from Book-Blurb Libel Case, on Jurisdictional Grounds

Sign Codes
Develop This!

Sign Codes
Report

How Interior Design Insiders Use Government Power to Exclude Minorities & Burden Consumers Designed to Exclude

Economic Liberty First Amendment Interior Design Interior Design Occupational Licensing
Report

SpeechNow.org and the Paradox of Buckley v. Valeo

First Amendment
Report

Davis v. FEC and the Constitutionality of “Clean Elections” Systems

First Amendment
Critics slam Dallas developer’s libel lawsuit

Sign Codes
Karen Sampson & Free Speech

First Amendment
Campaign Contribution Disclosure and Technological Change

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Lawsuit

Dangerous Trend: Bulldozing Free Speech Texas Eminent Domain Censorship

Filed: 1224720000October 23, 2008

Location: Texas

Status: Closed

First Amendment Sign Codes
Press Release

Federal Court Finds “Strong Likelihood” That First Amendment Challenge To Arizona’s “Matching Funds” Scheme Will Succeed

First Amendment
Press Release

Citizen Groups Ask Federal Court to Suspend Florida’s “Electioneering Communications” Law Before Election Day

First Amendment
Press Release

Federal Court Declines to Halt “Matching Funds” In Arizona Taxpayer-funded Elections Scheme

First Amendment
Press Release

Federal Lawsuit Challenges Campaign Finance Laws That Create a Statewide “No Speech Zone” Taking on Florida’s Political Speech Police:

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Taking on Florida’s Political Speech Police: Challenging Campaign Finance Laws That Create a Statewide “No Speech Zone” Florida Political Speech

Filed: 1223424000October 8, 2008

Location: Florida

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Press Release

Philly Tour Guides Free to Speak—For Now Judge Forbids City from Enforcing Anti-Speech Law for Six Months

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Challenging Oklahoma's Licensing of Speech For Interior Designers Oklahoma Interior Design

Filed: 1222732800September 30, 2008

Location:

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Interior Design Interior Design
Lawsuit

Challenging Connecticut’s Licensing of Speech For Interior Designers Connecticut Interior Design

Filed: 1220918400September 9, 2008

Location: Connecticut

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Interior Design
Press Release

Federal Court to Decide on Expedited Schedule Whether to Halt Arizona Clean Elections System

First Amendment
Press Release

Institute for Justice and Clients Move to Join New “Clean Elections” Challenge, Ask for Injunction for November Election

First Amendment
Report

How Industry Insiders Mislead the Public About the Need for Interior Design Regulation Designed to Mislead

Economic Liberty First Amendment Interior Design Interior Design
Press Release

Seek to Vindicate the Freedom to Speak in Philadelphia Tour Guides File Federal First Amendment Lawsuit

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Grassroots Tyranny in the Cradle of the Constitution: Philadelphia Tour Guides Stand Up For the Framers’ Vision of Freedom Philadelphia Tour Guides

Filed: 1214956800July 2, 2008

Location: Philadelphia

Status: Closed

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing Occupational Speech Tour Guides
Lawsuit

Vindicating the Right to Protest Eminent Domain Abuse: Tennesseans Sued by Thin-Skinned Politician and Developers Fight Back Clarksville, TN Eminent Domain Protest

Filed: 1214784000June 30, 2008

Location: Tennessee

Status: Closed

First Amendment Sign Codes
Lawsuit

Texas Government-mandated Computer Repair License Does Not Compute Texas Computer Repair

Filed: 1214438400June 26, 2008

Location: Texas

Status: Closed

Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing
Press Release

Institute for Justice Asks Arizona Supreme Court to Stop Disbursement of Illegally Collected Clean Elections Funds

First Amendment
Lawsuit

SpeechNow.org v. FEC Protecting Americans’ Rights To Organize and Speak About Politics SpeechNow.org

Filed: 1202947200February 14, 2008

Location: DC

Status: Closed

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Yes v. Savage

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Press Release

Institute for Justice Renews Challenge to Arizona’s Scheme of Taxpayer-Funded Political Campaigns Freeing Speech from Government Control:

First Amendment
Press Release

Institute for Justice Challenges City’s Censorship Of Anti-Eminent Domain Abuse Mural Signs of Abuse in St. Louis:

First Amendment
Barring Citizens From Politics

First Amendment
Capitol Times’ poll doesn’t tell whole story (PDF)

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Report

How Industry Insiders Cut Out Competition Designing Cartels

Economic Liberty First Amendment Interior Design Interior Design
Press Release

9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Refuses to Address Merits of Case Appellate Court Dismisses Challenge to Arizona’s Scheme of Publicly Funding Elections

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Signs of Abuse: Fighting Censorship and Eminent Domain Abuse in St. Louis St. Louis Signs

Filed: 1178668800May 9, 2007

Location: St. Louis

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Challenging Texas’ Licensing of Speech For Interior Designers Texas Interior Design

Filed: 1178668800May 9, 2007

Location: Texas

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Interior Design
Free speech over full disclosure

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Press Release

Shutting Up and Shutting Out Ordinary Citizens Study Shows Real-World Impact of Campaign Finance Regulations

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Campaign-finance reform vs. the First Amendment. If You Wanna Speak, You Better Have a Lawyer

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Report

Unintended Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform Disclosure Costs

First Amendment
Press Release

In Arizona, Welfare for Politicians Drowns Out & Punishes Privately Funded Candidates 9th Circuit Case Could Decide Future of Free Speech in Elections

First Amendment
Sign case gets rare hearing

First Amendment Sign Codes
Press Release

Consent Judgment Frees Minneapolis-area Sign Hangers More Signs of Success for IJ Minnesota Chapter

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Silencing Political Speech: Colorado’s Campaign Finance Laws Stifle Political Debate Parker North, CO Free Speech

Filed: 1158624000September 19, 2006

Location: Parker North, CO

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Challenging New Mexico’s Licensing of Speech For Interior Designers New Mexico Interior Design

Filed: 1157587200September 7, 2006

Location: New Mexico

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment
Lawsuit

Battling the Real Estate Establishment: New Hampshire’s Free Speech Rights Not For Sale New Hampshire Free Speech

Filed: 1150156800June 13, 2006

Location: New Hampshire

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Press Release

Institute for Justice Notifies Court of Appeals that Sale of Doughnut Shop Business Moots Free Speech Case

First Amendment
Press Release

IJ-MN Releases Statewide Study On Government Barriers to Entrepreneurship Institute for Justice Minnesota Chapter Challenges Minneapolis’ Sign Licensing Law

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Challenging Minnesota’s Advertising and Internet Speech Ban That Bottles Up Wineries and Consumers Minnesota Winery Internet Speech

Filed: 1129075200October 12, 2005

Location: Minnesota

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Lawsuit

Stifling Political Speech: Stifling Political Speech: Challenging Colorado’s Campaign Finance Regulations Colorado Free Speech

Filed: 1127692800September 26, 2005

Location: Colorado

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Press Release

“Got Milk?” Lawsuit Ends

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Free Speech Under Fire: Politically Motivated Prosecutors Seek to Restrict Media Discussion of Political Issues Washington Political Speech

Filed: 1123545600August 9, 2005

Location: Washington

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Press Release

U.S. Supreme Court Vacates “Got Milk?” Decision; Remands to 3rd U.S. Circuit for Further Proceedings

First Amendment
Press Release

IJ Speaks Out Against Government-Compelled Speech In Beef Case

First Amendment
Press Release

Free Speech Proponents Will Consider Appeal U.S. District Court Dismisses Legal Challenge to Public Financing Scheme

First Amendment
Press Release

State had Violated Internet Publisher’s First Amendment Rights State of California Won’t Appeal ForSaleByOwner.com’s Victory In Online Real Estate Licensing Case

First Amendment
Press Release

Licensing Internet Publishers Violates First Amendment Rights Federal Court Declares California’s Online Real Estate Licensing Law Unconstitutional

First Amendment
Press Release

U.S. District Court Declines to Halt Coercive Provisions of Arizona Public Campaign Financing Scheme

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Advertising Ban Is Sign of Big Government: Washington's City of Lynnwood Bans Signs For Businesses But Not for Politicians Lynnwood, WA Sign Ordinance

Filed: 1087862400June 22, 2004

Location: Lynnwood, WA

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech First Amendment Sign Codes
Press Release

Michigan Appeals Court Sides With Think Tank, Rejects Teachers’ Union’s Lawsuit Victory for Free Speech:

First Amendment
Press Release

Dairy Farmers & IJ Win Challenge to “Got Milk?” Ads

First Amendment
Press Release

IJ Asks Federal Court to Enjoin Arizona’s “Clean” Elections Act

First Amendment
Press Release

Internet Publishers Win As Federal Court Rejects Motion to Dismiss California Free Speech Case

First Amendment
Press Release

Lawsuit Exposes Dirty Little Secrets Behind Arizona’s “Clean” Elections

First Amendment
Lawsuit

The Dirty Truth about Arizona’s “Clean Elections” Act: U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Strike Down Program that Discourages Free Speech, Puts Thumb on Scales for Government-Funded Political Candidates Arizona Campaign Finance (Second Challenge)

Filed: 1075334400January 29, 2004

Location: Arizona

Status: Closed

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Press Release

Institute for Justice & Independent Dairy Farmers Challenge Mandatory Milk Advertising Lawsuit Takes on “got milk?” Ads

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Got Free Speech?: IJ & Independent Dairy Farmers Challenge Mandatory Milk Advertising “Got Milk” Ad Campaign

Filed: 1059955200August 4, 2003

Location: DC

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Banning “For Sale” Signs: The Latest Sign of a Growing Nanny State Glendale, OH Free Speech

Filed: 1059523200July 30, 2003

Location: Glendale, OH

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech First Amendment
Lawsuit

Vindicating Free Speech: City of Redmond Sign Ordinance Punches Hole in Bagel Entrepreneur’s First Amendment Rights Redmond, WA Free Speech

Filed: 1058832000July 22, 2003

Location: Redmond, WA

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Food Freedom
Lawsuit

The Michigan Education Association Tries to Take the "Free" Out of "Free Speech" Mackinac Free Speech

Filed: 1053475200May 21, 2003

Location: Michigan

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Press Release

Lawsuit Challenges California’s Free Speech Restrictions On Advertising Websites

First Amendment
Lawsuit

A Web of Restrictions?: Challenging California’s Free Speech Restrictions on Internet Real Estate Advertising Sites California Internet Real Estate Restrictions

Filed: 1052870400May 14, 2003

Location: California

Status: Closed

Commercial Speech Economic Liberty First Amendment Occupational Licensing
Press Release

Arizona Superior Court Declines to Strike Down Mesa’s Arbitrary Sign Restrictions Right to Speak Freely Suffers Setback

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Challenging Barriers To Free Speech & Free Enterprise In New Orleans: City of Literary Lore Bans Book Vending New Orleans Book Ban

Filed: 1049760000April 8, 2003

Location: New Orleans

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Press Release

U.S. Supreme Court Urged To Overturn Public Campaign Subsidies

First Amendment
Press Release

Lawsuit Seeks to Overturn City of Mesa’s Sign Ordinance And Protect Free Speech Small Business Fights for Right to Free Speech

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Vindicating Free Speech: Doughnut Entrepreneur Punches Holes In City of Mesa Sign Ordinance That Chills Speech Mesa, AZ Signs

Filed: 1041984000January 8, 2003

Location: Mesa, Arizona

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Press Release

Institute for Justice Arizona Chapter to Ask U.S. Supreme Court To Vindicate Arizonans’ First Amendment Rights Arizona Supreme Court Upholds Coerced Funding of Political Speech

First Amendment
Press Release

“Clean Elections Act” Funding Declared Unconstitutional

First Amendment
Press Release

Mackinac Center and Institute for Justice Defend Against Michigan Teachers’ Union Attack Keeping the “Free” In Free Speech:

First Amendment
Press Release

Institute for Justice Denounces Move to Transfer Clean Elections Case To Arizona Supreme Court

First Amendment
Press Release

Court of Appeals Grants Special Action Petition, Prompt Ruling Expected On Clean Election Act Validity

First Amendment
Press Release

Institute for Justice Arizona Chapter to Pursue Case in Appeals Court Arizona Supreme Court Denies Hearing on Clean Elections Act Lawsuit;

First Amendment
Press Release

Arizona Supreme Court Will Consider Petition Challenging Clean Elections Act

First Amendment
Press Release

Challenge to Publicly Financed Elections Will Proceed in Arizona State Court

First Amendment
Press Release

Citizens Forced to Fund Political Campaigns File Court Action Against Arizona’s Public Funding Law

First Amendment
Lawsuit

Challenging Coerced Subsidies for the Political Class: A First Amendment Lawsuit Arizona Campaign Finance (First Challenge)

Filed: 936835200September 9, 1999

Location: Arizona

Status: Closed

Campaign Speech First Amendment
Don’t Let the Feds Regulate On-line Financial Advice

First Amendment
Feds Target Financial Software

First Amendment
Does the Constitution Protect Software?

First Amendment
Lawsuit

North Dakota Micro-Radio

Filed: 891216000March 30, 1998

Location: North Dakota

Status: Closed

First Amendment
Lawsuit

The CFTC vs. The First Amendment: The Federal Government's Assault on Free Speech CFTC Challenge

Filed: 870220800July 30, 1997

Location: DC

Status: Closed

First Amendment

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Lawsuit

Outdated Federal Law Threatens Unique Richmond Publisher Virginia Books

Filed: 1534377600August 16, 2018

Location: Washington, D.C.

Status: Pending

Press Release

Government demands copies of books, threatens thousands in fines, offers nothing in return Outdated Federal Law Threatens Unique Richmond Publisher

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First Amendment Victory Vindicates Would-Be Guides’ Two-Year Battle Federal Judge Strikes Down Charleston’s Licensing Requirement for Tour Guides

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Army veteran and wife stopped from teaching job skills by State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Virginia Couple Sues to Protect Their First Amendment Right to Teach

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License to Teach? Virginia Stops Family Business From Teaching Useful Job Skills Virginia Teaching

Filed: 1532390400July 24, 2018

Location: Richmond, VA

Status: Pending

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Startup Files Countersuit After Licensing Board Sues to Shut It Down for Drawing Maps Over Satellite Photos Mississippi Startup Files First Amendment Countersuit Against State Licensing Board

Lawsuit

Mississippi Regulatory Board Sues Tech Entrepreneurs to Prevent Competition Mississippi Mapping

Filed: 1531180800July 10, 2018

Location: Canton, MS

Status: Pending

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Court voices concern that system is “a feeding ground for political warfare and what could be described as extortion” Federal Court Rules That Colorado’s Abuse-Prone Campaign-Finance Enforcement Violates First Amendment