Free Speech Unmuted: The Process Is The Punishment: ABC v. FCC with Stuart Benjamin
ABC is challenging the Federal Communications Commission, arguing that the agency is using its licensing authority to…
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What About a "'Let's Go Brandon' Was a Hallucination in the First Place" Defense?
From De Ford v. Koutoulas, decided last month by Judge Paul Byron (M.D. Fla.) but just posted on Westlaw, which… The…
Read at source →The Biggest Revelation In Recent NYT Expose Is Justice Scalia Wasn't Planning on Dying
Scalia made no plans for his papers.
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2,400 Baseball Games for the Price of 1
Fake wide receivers running scams, Djokovic bounced, Messi retires, The Giving Tree wasn't about stadium subsidies, and…
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Is This the Supreme Court's Next Sports Betting Case?
Plus: SCOTUS allows Trump’s White House ballroom construction to proceed.
Read at source →New in Civitas Outlook: "The End Is Near for the American Bar Association"
"I played a small role in trying to stop the ABA’s collapse, which I have not previously discussed, but now wish to…
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Trouble at the Pentagon
Plus: Nuns who podcast, Burning Man's median age is 40, Danish reparations, and more...
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School Can Control What Flags Schoolteachers Hang on Classroom Walls
A short excerpt from the longish Dole v. Connetquot Central School Dist., decided yesterday by Second Circuit Judge…
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Traditional Medical Licensing Requirements Don't Generally Violate First Amendment Rights of Doctors Providing Advice
So the Third Circuit held yesterday, though it left room for challenges to laws that make it too hard to get…
Read at source →No Second Amendment Right to Carry Gun on Your Government Job
From Tyson-Phipps v. Rubio, decided yesterday by Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein (S.D.N.Y.): [The Complaint]…
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Today in Supreme Court History: September 1, 1823
9/1/1823: Justice Smith Thompson takes judicial oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 1, 1823…
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The Reason Prison Essay Experiment
It's time to reexamine our assumptions about prisons and punishment.
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J.D. Vance and the Politics of Victimhood
The postliberal right’s frenzy for exaggerating and fabricating transgressions
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Brickbat: Ask Questions Later
St. Louis County, Missouri, Police Chief Juan Cox says he does not know why police officers shot at a car full… The…
Read at source →Making Sense Of The Chief Justice's Tango In The Ballroom Case
It was the Chief, and not KBJ, who was holding up the case. Was he trying to flip ACB's vote?
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Trump Wants the FCC To Punish His Enemies
Plus: the escalating war with Iran, Meta's $17 billion settlement, and Milo Yiannopoulos gets deported.
Read at source →Strictly Ballroom: Justice Kavanaugh Defeats Chief Justice Roberts
The Court rejects the D.C. Circuit's erroneous "aesthetic injury" standing precedents and the Chief can only wax about…
Read at source →Supreme Court Allows White House Ballroom Construction to Go Forward, at Least for Now
The majority didn't decide whether the construction violated federal law, only that plaintiffs' purely aesthetic…
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The 8th Circuit Lets the Government Retroactively Repair Unconstitutional Gun Cases Against Pot Smokers
A SCOTUS petition argues that the practice, which allows a judicial finding of dangerousness based on a preponderance…
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A Liberal Think Tank and an Air Force Major Are Trump's Latest Targets for Speech Policing
Trump threatened the Center for American Progress with a defamation lawsuit, while Jason Watson faces a court martial…
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Cops in Polk County, Georgia, Fatally Shoot Petting Zoo Donkey
The donkey's owner says officers wandered onto her property without permission and shot the small donkey because they…
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What Craigslist and Backpage Can Tell Us About the Meta Settlement
It doesn't matter if you're right. If you don't cave, the government might stop at nothing to destroy you.
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Startpage Search Engine Output Omitting Certain Search Results?
Startpage is a search engine that promotes itself as protecting user privacy; it gathers results via Google and Bing,…
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Trump's Trade War With Canada Is Costly, Absurd, and Unfunny
American consumers and businesses are being taken advantage of by Canadians who are…offering to sell us aluminum, oil,…
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Rebuke or Punishment
Plus: Gustavo Gordillo's lies, measles among the Amish, Milo Yiannopoulos deported, and more...
Read at source →Anti-SLAPP Law Doesn't Apply to Foreign Speech by Foreigners
The case is a decision by Judge Susan Illston (N.D. Cal.) Friday in Doe v. Deutsche Lufthansa AG (see also… The post…
Read at source →Lawsuit Over Outing of Gay Saudi Residents by Lufthansa in Saudi Arabia Can Proceed
[1.] First, the facts from an earlier decision in Doe v. Deutsche Lufthansa AG: John Doe and Robert Roe are… The post…
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Anthropic Win Reaffirms Private Sector's Right To Put Conditions on Government Dealings
Trump administration officials didn’t try to hide that they were punishing the company for its views.
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 31, 1995
8/31/1995: Students at Santa Fe Independent School District voted to allow a student to say a prayer at football…
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The Belated Backlash Against Flock Cameras
Americans are starting to recognize the dangers of pervasive surveillance by automated license plate readers.
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Brickbat: Burning Rubber
The California Energy Commission (CEC) unanimously approved new tire-efficiency rules that are expected to ban about 70…
Read at source →New York Times Recycles Same Old Story About Northern District of Texas
Yet the article inexplicably makes no mention of judge shopping in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Read at source →What J.D. Vance Gets Wrong About Hamilton (and Markets and Milton Friedman)
The Vice President's argument for more governmental intervention in the economy is based upon a morass of…
Read at source →An Actual SCOTUS Nightmare
Recently, Justice Jackson warned about a "Kafkaesque nightmare" at the Supreme Court. Well, I had my own.
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 30, 1967
8/30/1967: Justice Thurgood Marshall takes the oath. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 30, 1967 appeared…
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