Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that “combining speech and conduct” is not enough to create expressive conduct
• stating that “freedom of speech prohibits the government from telling people what they must say”
• stating that “freedom of speech prohibits the government from telling people what they must say”
• explaining that the freedom of speech is not implicated where conduct at issue is “in part initiated, evidenced, or carried out by means of language, either spoken, written, or printed.”
• rejecting law schools’ First Amendment objection to military recruiters on campus because no reasonable person would believe the “law schools agree[d] with any speech by recruiters”
• declining to decide whether the individually named plaintiffs had standing because “the presence of one party with standing is sufficient to satisfy Article Ill’s ease-or-controversy requirement”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).