Trump Loses Two More Sanctuary City Cases - And Picks up A Rare Win
The unusual victory arises from a connection to the Contracts Clause.
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Professor Investigated for Mocking a University 'Land Acknowledgment' Gets a $600,000 Settlement
The agreement follows a 9th Circuit ruling that the University of Washington violated Stuart Reges' First Amendment…
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How Often Are Articles in Top Law Reviews Written In Part By AI?
A guest post from Julian Nyarko.
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Court Grants TRO Barring "Threatening, Intimidating, and Retaliation Action … Without a Legitimate Law Enforcement Purpose" Against ICE Watcher
From Judge Michael Newman (S.D. Ohio) Friday in Moorman v. Doe No. 1; since this is a decision at the… The post Court…
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Help Workers by Breaking Down Barriers to Labor Mobility
Labor Day is a great time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote…
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Robert Anderson's Cold War
How Eisenhower’s treasury secretary became a Cold War fixer, intelligence go-between, and a man no one wanted to…
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If Canada is 'Ripping Off' the U.S., Why Is It Falling Behind?
Americans have been widening the prosperity gap with our neighbors for years.
Read at source →Today in Supreme Court History: September 7, 1958
9/7/1958: The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas denied the Little Rock School Board's petition…
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RFK Jr.'s MAHA Cooking Show Is Government Propaganda. I Kind of Love It?
I think it's cool that conservatives are trying to make it cool to care about nutrition. But this isn't the…
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Who Owns California's Gold?
The Gold Rush was not only a scramble for wealth. It was also a scramble for property rights.
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Brickbat: Itchy Taser Finger
Phoenix police officers Luis Vasquez and Antonio Felix have been fired and charged with kidnapping and aggravated…
Read at source →Alienation of Affections as Complicity
In the discussion of the Kyrsten Sinema alienation of affections case, several commenters took roughly the following…
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Can an All-Female Nude Spa Bar Transgender Clients With Male Genitalia? The Supreme Court May Decide.
Olympus Spa—an all-female, nude establishment in Washington state—sued after the government said it had broken the law…
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Today in Supreme Court History: September 6, 1983
9/6/1983: The City of Richmond solicited bids for installing plumbing fixtures at the city jail. The J.A. Croson…
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Photo: AI Unfurls an Ancient Scroll
The Vesuvius Challenge awards money to researchers who use AI to decipher ancient scrolls.
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Do You Have the Right To Possess an AR-15? The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a pair of cases involving rifle restrictions imposed by Connecticut and Cook…
Read at source →N.C. Court Has Jurisdiction over Alienation of Affection Claim Brought Against Ex-Arizona-Senator Kyrsten Sinema
This tort, which lets people sue their spouses' lovers for interfering with the marriage, is litigated in about 150 new…
Read at source →Opera Star Anna Netrebko Loses Follow-Up Defamation Case Against the N.Y. Metropolitan Opera
From Netrebko v. Metropolitan Opera Ass'n Inc., decided Thursday by Judge Analisa Torres (S.D.N.Y.): In early 2022, the…
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How Would You Have Applied Massachusetts Law in the Lindsay Clancy Trial?
[A.] I know lots of people have opinions about the Lindsay Clancy trial, and I wanted to pass along the… The post How…
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NYC Law Could Force Uber and Lyft to Keep Dangerous Drivers on the Road
A federal judge temporarily blocked it from taking effect. But the legal fight is ongoing.
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Today in Supreme Court History: September 5, 1922
9/5/1922: Justice George Sutherland takes the oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 5, 1922 appeared…
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The Iraq War Cheerleaders Were Wrong. They're Wrong About Iran Too.
Hawkish pundits predicted both wars would be swift and successful. That's not how it turned out.
Read at source →Sean Combs (P. Diddy)'s Defamation Suit Can Go Forward (Including Against NewsNation)
From Judge John Cronan (S.D.N.Y.) today in Combs v. Mitchell: Plaintiff Sean Combs is a well-known musician who uses…
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A Federal Indictment Charges an ICE Officer With Lying About a Shooting That DHS Eagerly Defended
The habitually dishonest department uncritically accepted a story that was immediately contradicted by video footage…
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Texas Labeling Islamic Group a Terrorist Organization Infringes on Campus Free Speech
By labeling this group a terrorist organization, the state is chilling more than Muslims' freedom of expression.
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The Right to Trial is Vanishing. Could Bolder Juries Save It?
A new campaign by the Cato Institute aims to educate jurors on their right to vote their conscience against unjust laws…
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The Lindsay Clancy Trial Was Never Going To Answer the Question Everyone Was Asking
In the court of public opinion, there is little room for ambiguity here. But those who watched the trial know that…
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DOJ Says Barring AI Training on Copyrighted Material Could 'Severely Hamper' Tech Progress
Training a model on copyrighted work is the same transformative use exception that protects The New York Times'…
Read at source →Eleventh Circuit Holds Qui Tam Relators Are Not "Officers of the United States." What Happens Next?
[This post is co-authored with Professor Seth Barrett Tillman.] Over the past decade, many legal challenges have turned…
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In the White House's Retro Arcade Games, the Trump Administration Always Loses
In MAGAfied versions of Tapper and Tetris, the seed oils will eventually get through and the border wall will be…
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Trump Is Expanding Executive Power. Democrats Are Already Eyeing the New Tools.
Some Democrats are licking their chops over other economic powers that Trump has claimed for the presidency.
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Lawyers' Responsibility for Hallucinations in Briefs That They Sign
An interesting perspective from D.C. Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Glickman concurring in Douglas v. Deutsche Bank…
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"Incredulity" That "Competent Law Firm Representing One of the Largest Financial Institution[s] in the World" Filed Brief with AI Hallucinations
D.C.’s highest court strikes Deutsche Bank’s appellate brief as a sanction.
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OpenAI Agents Gone Rogue
Plus: Mail-in ballots, mortgage rates reach new high, arcade.gov is a new low, and more...
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