Giving the middle finger may not be nice, but it is people’s “God-given” right, a Canadian judge has ruled in clearing a man of harassment charges in a neighbors’ quarrel.

News; Massachusetts court: Use of middle finger is free speech but can be real threat. Published: ; Jan. 31, 2012, 7:45 p.m.

A raised middle finger is a form of free speech, a court has ruled, allowing a lawsuit by a driver who made the vulgar gesture at a police officer.

A federal appeals court in Cincinnati has ruled that “raising” a middle finger at a police officer is protected as free speech. In a ruling filed this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

William Martin raised his middle finger at a New Jersey police detective, and he got slapped with a ticket. He was charged with disorderly conduct in New Milford, Bergen County, in 2016.

A $175,000 settlement has been reached in the lawsuit of a Vermont man who said he was arrested after he gave an officer the middle finger, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday.

Alvin “Al” Goldstein managed to offend just about everyone with his middle finger because it was eleven feet tall. The South Florida pornographer, who died in 2013, lived in […] Skip to content ...

He spent $4,000 on the middle finger sculpture, carved in Vermont by an artisan he declined to name. "We've been trying to put a business there for the past 10 years," Pelkey said. "It's just ...

6/27: CBS Morning News 20:40. Vermont has agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was charged with a crime for giving a state trooper the middle finger in 2018, the state ...