First Amendment

A security guard ordered a local teacher to stop photographing a MetroLink station. Is that legal? Washington University’s Lisa Hoppenjans discusses photography and your rights in this digital age.

Clayton attorney Bevis Schock won a victory in federal court this week on behalf of Robert Fernandez, a homeless man repeatedly cited for violating St. Louis County ordinances against panhandling.

The ability to speak freely in 2021 is complicated in ways the framers of the U.S. Constitution never envisioned. In this episode, we discuss how the First Amendment applies in this brave new world and whether unpopular speech — be it a dissenting opinion, a false claim or outright hate speech — deserves protection not just from the government, but tech giants like Twitter, Facebook and Google.

In 2016, a painting by St. Louis high school student David Pulphus appeared in the U.S. Capitol alongside hundreds of other winning art competition…

When Annette Kiehne looked for ways to make the playground safer at Trinity Lutheran Church preschool in Columbia, Missouri, she had no idea the plan…

The saga of Melissa Click is one so widely-known that it is sure to be recorded in the great books of higher ed lore. Click, in the fall of 2015, became…

Republican presidential candidates and anti-racism protesters at Mizzou don’t agree on much. Yet both made news recently by confronting journalists.…

For the second time this year, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce’s office has subpoenaed St. Louis Public Radio and “requested” that we keep…

Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent with Missouri ties, was convicted of espionage Monday. He was accused of leaking information to New York Times…

A report by the PEN America Center says an “aggressive, militarized response to largely peaceful public protests” fueled “the most serious human rights…