2. Whether requiring prior government approval before publishing a newspaper article constitutes unconstitutional prior restraint under the First Amendment?

State v. Fenton (2024)

New York Times Co. v. United States

Moshe Levy, a student at Harvard University, claims that the university failed to enforce its anti-discrimination policies and did not protect him and other Jewish students from a hostile and antisemitic environment that emerged on campus following pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

Legal Question:

Does Harvard University’s failure to address antisemitic harassment violate Jewish students’ constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses, as well as its obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, given that it receives federal funding?

Jordan Watts is among a group of criminal defendants in a county jail who have been awaiting trial for over a year. None of them have been assigned public defenders due to a shortage in the state’s legal aid system.

Whether the prolonged pretrial detention of criminal defendants without the appointment of public defenders, due to a shortage in the state’s legal aid system, violates their constitutional right to counsel and their fundamental right to a fair trial.