The Savory Tort

The United Kingdom has an anti-SLAPP bill on the table, and lawyer Gideon Benaim has cataloged objections. In broad strokes, the bill foll...

The criminalization of journalism is the worry at the heart of the Julian Assange case, as a UK court mulls the possibility of his extraditi...

Free SVG In case about fantasy sports, the Delhi High Court in India ruled in late April that satire, news, and art must enjoy protection fr...

Katrin Göring-Eckardt Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung CC BY-SA 2.0 In August 2022, a German court rejected a politician's claim that a satiric &q...

Abortion rights rally at Stanford Law in 2022. (Suiren2022 via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 ) After the brouhaha at Stanford Law School i...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court two weeks ago struck down a town policy purporting to require civility in public meetings. The town...

On December 31, Google blocked access to a Savory Tort post from 2019 on free speech and censorship in New Zealand. I received this message...

BLM protest in Baton Rouge in 2015 (Alisdare Hickson CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr ) A lawsuit against Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesso...

AG Maura Healey The Massachusetts anti-SLAPP statute does not work in defense of Attorney General enforcement actions, the Supreme Judicial ...

Regular blog readers will soon recognize that I am playing catch-up, sharing items that I stockpiled for the better part of the spring semes...

Maidan Nezalezhnosti in 2013.  RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 . Via Lonely Planet and The Points Guy , a way for the free expression-minde...

[UPDATE: At 9:47 a.m. today, Thursday, Sept. 2, I received word that Locast is suspending operations, effective immediately.]   Locast, an o...

Foto por jpereira via The Loop (c. 2019; CC no especificada) [ English. ] La creación de una nueva constitución está en marcha en Chile, ...

The Eighth Circuit reached mixed outcomes yesterday in First Amendment review of the Iowa "ag gag" law, upholding a criminal proh...