First Amendment

Honolulu City Lights will celebrate three decades of tree lightings and holiday fun on Saturday, Dec. 6, starting at 6 p.m. at Honolulu Hale....

In a victory for free speech, the University of Hawaii (UH) agreed today to settle a First Amendment lawsuit filed by two students at UH’s Hilo....

...Virtual Takings: The Coming Fifth Amendment Challenge to Net Neutrality Regulation....

“But they all kissed the ring because they wanted his money.”

Omidyar...seemed not to realize what he had gotten into....

Maui Weekly competed with Maui Time which continues to publish an independent bi-weekly print newspaper on Maui....

Ministers face a 180-day jail term and $1,000 fine for each day they decline to celebrate the same-sex wedding....

...a statement agreeing that the IRS should not control the content of a pastor’s sermon....

...Kahle and Huber moved from Hawaii to Norton Shores (MI) last year....

The TRO prohibits Hawaii County from interfering with Plaintiff Justin Guy’s right to hold a sign (saying “Homeless Please Help”) by the side of the road....

...Plaintiffs call settlement “A win for freedom of speech”....

Case to be heard by Judge Mollway on Friday, 9/19/14, 9 a.m....

...the City and County of Honolulu condemned an undeveloped lot in rural Oahu for a fire station, but has been met with staunch resistance....

Applications must be received by this Friday, August 29 before 4:30 p.m. at the Mission Memorial Building next to Honolulu Hale, 550 South King St....

Grassroot President Keli’i Akina sits down with Andrew Walden, Founder and Editor of Hawai'i Free Press....

We strongly encourage you to make direct contact with your candidates and find out if they represent your values....

Grassroot President Keli’i Akina sits down with attorney Jim Hochberg, President of Hawai’i Family Advocates to  explore the meaning of  religious freedom....

The pitch of public controversy surrounding cultural issues...can give the impression that we live in an intractably divided society with incompatible differences.  But the Hobby Lobby decision suggests that such a tone is overwrought....

Schatz is among several Senate Democrats trying to counter the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Hobby Lobby case....

The filings launch FIRE’s new Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project, a national effort to eliminate unconstitutional speech codes through targeted First Amendment lawsuits....

...the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an important victory for participants in home-health care programs....

Cayetano sued to clear his name after PRP Hawaii spent $2 million on a media campaign against him....

...the justices ruled the government will not be able to force Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties to provide coverage of four drugs and devices that can end the life of a human embryo....

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dozens rallied Saturday at the capitol to promote voter registration in churches and to defend religious freedom....

...plaintiffs sued alleging First Amendment violations after the HPD allegedly removed Second Amendment activists' Facebook comments from an HPD Facebook page....

Attkisson is an award-winning investigative reporter who earlier this year made headlines for resigning from CBS News....

We ask all those who are not already registered to fill out a voter registration application, which will be made available to you at Mass the weekend of June 21/22....

Meanwhile in Hawaii: Cayetano vs PRP: You're corrupt so you have no right to say I'm corrupt....

...on one hand, the labeling requirement compels speech, while on the other, the prohibition on calling it natural suppresses speech....

Hawaii TEA party leaders are outraged over the news the IRS has lost emails of its former director, Lois Lerner, during a critical time when the agency admitted to targeting conservative groups....

Civil Beat tried to throttle and censor the work of Pritchett who has penned many stinging independent political pieces....

it would “...lead directly to government censorship of political speech...."

Cox tells how he has literally risked life and limb in the pursuit of the truth behind crime and cover-ups in Hawaii government....

A Hawaii court decided Tuesday to dismiss most of a renewed lawsuit against two Oahu churches....

Yesterday, the IRS announced it would hold off until next year on new rules that would have restricted the activities of nonprofit groups....

...Cabanilla – the only representative to leave the floor to avoid voting on same sex marriage – still has no real opposition....

Several recent news stories highlight the troubling irony of so-called free speech zones....

...U.S. Supreme Court held that town council meetings could open with a prayer without violating the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause....

The University of Hawai'i at Hilo is implementing an interim policy on speech and assembly while the university explores permanent changes to the policy....

More than 100 Hawaii conservatives joined Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint in Honolulu....

The federal lawsuit alleging unconstitutional interference with plaintiff Neldon Mamuad’s prominent “MAUIWatch” Facebook feed settled on 5/8/14....

...students had been exiled to a “free speech zone” in a remote area of the campus....

“As a practice that has long endured, legislative prayer has become part of our heritage and tradition...That a prayer is given in the name of Jesus, Allah, or Jehovah, or that it makes passing references to religious doctrines, does not remove it from that tradition.” -- US Supreme Court

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A student ordered by administrators to stop handing out copies of the U.S. Constitution at the University of Hawaii at Hilo has filed a lawsuit today in federal court....