Jorjani v. N.J. Inst. of Tech., 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 23109 (September 8, 2025) Matey, Circuit Judge. Before: KRAUSE, MATEY, and PHIPPS, Circuit Judges. MATEY, Circuit Judge. New Jersey Institute of Technology declined to renew a lecturer’s contract based on his private comments about race, politics, and immigration. But NJIT’s regulation of speech outside the […]

303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, 2023 U.S. LEXIS 2794 (S. Ct. June 30, 2023) (Gorsuch, J.) Like many States, Colorado has a law forbidding businesses from engaging in discrimination when they sell goods and services to the public. Laws along these lines have done much to secure the civil rights of all Americans. But in […]

United States v. Hansen, 2023 U.S. LEXIS 2638 (S. Ct. June 23, 2023) (Barrett, J.) A federal law prohibits “encourag[ing] or induc[ing]” illegal immigration. 8 U. S. C. §1324(a)(1)(A)(iv). After concluding that this statute criminalizes immigration advocacy and other protected speech, the Ninth Circuit held it unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment. That was error. […]