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The FIRE Quarterly: Volume 4, Number 2
Recent Articles
FIRE’s award-winning Newsdesk covers the free speech news you need to stay informed.

VICTORY! Charges dropped against TN woman cited for using skeletons in Christmas decorations
Less than a month after FIRE filed a First Amendment lawsuit against Germantown, Tennessee, the city has dismissed charges against a resident for keeping skeletons in her yard after Halloween.

VICTORY! 9th Circuit rules in favor of professor punished for criticizing college for lowering academic standards
Professor Lars Jensen was unconstitutionally punished for handing out fliers criticizing Truckee Meadows Community College’s watered down math standards.

Free speech advocates rally to support FIRE’s federal appeal to defend advocacy in public parks
Protesting in public parks is as American as apple pie. That right does not disappear merely because a private entity operates the public park on the government’s behalf.

The government wants to financially bludgeon those seeking to defend constitutional rights
A new White House directive threatens to make it prohibitively expensive for Americans to defend the Constitution in court.