The Latest Breaking News from NIFLA

No First Amendment Exception for Professional-Client Speech: States Can't Ban "Conversion Therapy" Speech for Minors

So the Supreme Court held today.

Reason · Mar 31

Second Circuit Upholds Injunction Protecting Speech About "Abortion Pill Reversal"

Such speech by the National Institute of Family & Life Advocates in this case, the court concluded, was noncommercial speech that was subject to broad First Amendment protection, rather than less protected "commercial speech."

Reason · Dec 1, 2025

Crisis pregnancy center told staff not to give ultrasounds to women with potential ectopic pregnancies

Ectopic pregnancies can lead to internal bleeding or death if left untreated

The Independent UK · Jun 23, 2025

Crisis Pregnancy Centers File Free Speech Suits Over Illinois and Vermont Laws

Plus: California tries to stop professors from testifying in suit over COVID education policies, state Republicans aren't all abandoning free market economics, and more...

Reason · Aug 1, 2023

N.Y. AG Appeals, to Defend Law Mandating Posting of "Hateful Conduct" Policies by Social Media Platforms (Including Us)

Volokh v. James going to the Second Circuit.

Reason · Mar 13, 2023

‘We are outlawing misinformation.’ California bill goes after crisis pregnancy centers

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly five years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a California law aimed at preventing “crisis pregnancy centers” from misrepresenting the prenatal and abortion services they offer, a state lawmaker is trying again with a different approach.

Tribune News Service · Feb 8, 2023

The First Amendment and Sexual Orientation "Conversion Therapy"—Next Stop, the Supreme Court?

From Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain's opinion respecting rehearing en banc released today (and joined by Judges Sandra Ikuta, Ryan Nelson, and Lawrence VanDyke) in Tingley v. Ferguson: Is therapeutic speech speech? Does a tradition of licensing a given profession override all First Amendment limits on licensing requirements? The three-judge panel answered…

Reason · Jan 23, 2023

Licensing of Speaking Professions Doesn't Violate First Amendment

So holds the Eleventh Circuit, as to dieticians, viewing itself as bound by an earlier decision involving interior designers.

Reason · Feb 21, 2022