Travis, Council Have Immunity in Cote Free Speech Suit
By: Rob Borkowski on July 25, 2025 in News to You
WARWICK, RI — Former City Council member Donna Travis and other individual members are shielded from Rob Cote’s free speech suit seeking nominal damages from the body and punitive damages […]
RI ACLU, Cote, Expand Cote Free Speech Suit to City
By: Rob Borkowski on May 11, 2024 in News to You, Police, Police News & Fire News in RI
WARWICK, RI — The ACLU of Rhode Island and frequent city critic Rob Cote have expanded the Cote free speech suit protesting Cote’s ouster from a July 17 2023 City […]
Galligan: School Committee Reviews Public Speaker Rules
By: Rob Borkowski on January 30, 2024 in News to You, Schools
WARWICK, RI — Warwick School Committee Chairman Shaun Galligan says the board is re-examining its public speaker rules after an American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island report noted its […]
Council Takes Undisclosed Vote on Cote Free Speech Suit
By: Rob Borkowski on September 8, 2023 in News to You
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council began its full meeting Wednesday with an immediate vote to enter executive session to discuss Rob Cote’s free speech suit against the body, […]
ACLU Defends TurtleBoySports Against Superior Court Gag Order
By: Rob Borkowski on June 22, 2019 in News to You
PROVIDENCE — The ACLU of RI is defending a Massachusetts website publisher facing censorship via Superior Court order to remove posts about a Hopkinton, RI resident and business woman’s YouTube […]
First Amendment, First Defense, First Casualty
By: Rob Borkowski on July 5, 2018 in All Politics Are Local
Three days after America elected a new president in Donald J. Trump, notorious for insulting the service of war hero Sen. John McCain and threatening the First Amendment rights provided […]
Teachers, Students Insist Protesters Unfairly Punished; Nadeau Seeks Suspensions
By: Rob Borkowski on January 11, 2017 in Schools
WARWICK, R.I. — Teachers and students at Tuesday’s School Committee meeting insisted three-hour detention for the 100 student walkout protesters Dec. 21 demonstrating against special education practices was punishment for the protest, not the truancy, while Vice Chairman Eugene Nadeau called for suspending the demonstrators.
ACLU: Unfairly Punishing Class-Cutting Protesters A First Amendment Violation
By: Rob Borkowski on January 9, 2017 in News to You, Schools
WARWICK, R.I. — The ACLU of RI has stated the alleged unfair punishment of 100 students who cut their final class Dec. 21 to protest Warwick Public Schools’ Special Education practices would be a First Amendment violation, and called for disclosure of Warwick Public Schools discipline practices.
Warwick Veterans Split on Whether to Worry About Trump’s Offensive Speech
By: Rob Borkowski on November 15, 2016 in Good Times
Three days after voters elected Donald Trump, notorious for insulting the service of war hero Sen. John McCain and threatening to weaken the First Amendment of the Constitution, Warwick veterans were split on whether to worry about the president-elect’s indifference to the ideals they served to protect.