Arrested for handing out pro-vegetarian leaflets, CUNY protester will get his day in court

A federal court has declined to dismiss the bulk of a civil-rights lawsuit brought by a vegetarian activist arrested while distributing leaflets outside the front gate of a City University of New York campus in the Bronx.Richard Hershey, a St.

Appeals court finalizes legal victory for conservative newspaper at Oregon State

A federal appeals court has declined a request from Oregon State University administrators to reconsider an October 2012 ruling that kept alive a First Amendment challenge brought by publishers of a conservative newspaper whose distribution racks were seized.In a brief order issued Friday, the Ninth Circuit U.S.