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Lauren Justice/CalMattersA bill passed by the Legislature on its last day is a top priority for California labor unions, who say “captive audience” sessions intimidate workers. Business groups say the bill violates employers’ free speech rights. -
Connor Radnovich/Oregon Capital ChronicleSen. Brian Boquist, the maverick Oregon lawmaker who said state police should “send bachelors and come heavily armed” if they wanted to drag him back to the Capitol in a 2019 Republican-led Senate walkout, has prevailed in a First Amendment federal lawsuit tied to that statement and others.
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A federal court has struck down an Oregon law which made most secret recordings illegal. -
Recently signed legislation in Arizona would bar people from recording video of police officers within 8 feet after being told not to. -
In September, OPB reporter April Ehrlich faces trial for charges tied to her coverage of Medford police breaking up a homeless encampment in 2020. -
A federal judge concluded that Oregon’s law banning real estate “love letters” is unconstitutional. -
Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson said in a statement that Danny Fenster had been handed over to him in Myanmar and would return to the U.S. via Qatar over the next day and a half. -
You can champion the cause of tolerance and acceptance, but can you go overboard? Can you so insist on the exercise of some people's rights that you… -
"I can say what I want, it's a free country." Easy to say, not so easy to justify; no rights are absolute in the United States (or anywhere else). Free… -
Anti-Trump protests on the streets. Anti-pipeline protests on the edge of the reservation. Just two examples of people taking their disagreements and… -
The heyday of street theater ended decades ago. But Patrick "Stoney" Burke's performances did not. Burke exercises his first amendment rights, sort of…
