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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 鈥渃aptive audience鈥� sessions intimidate workers. Business groups say the bill violates employers鈥� free speech rights. -
Connor Radnovich/Oregon Capital ChronicleSen. Brian Boquist, the maverick Oregon lawmaker who said state police should 鈥渟end bachelors and come heavily armed鈥� 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鈥檚 law banning real estate 鈥渓ove letters鈥� 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鈥� -
"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鈥� -
Anti-Trump protests on the streets. Anti-pipeline protests on the edge of the reservation. Just two examples of people taking their disagreements and鈥� -
The heyday of street theater ended decades ago. But Patrick "Stoney" Burke's performances did not. Burke exercises his first amendment rights, sort of鈥�
