"The substantial public interests implicated by questions of the proper scope of Executive power and the statutory limits on access to tax information warrant public disclosure. While this case, and ... this decision, are now unsealed, the underlying Application and its supporting materials will remain under seal, at least while the investigation remains active ...."
So a Fourth Circuit panel held today, vacating the defendant's convictions from 2005.
An Eleventh Circuit panel concludes (by a 2-1 vote) that this is likely the right result.
Naomi Schaefer Riley and Martin Guggenheim debate the proper role of child protective services.
A proposed rule change would allow routine gathering of biometric data without a warrant.
Ten Frenchmen were given fines, jail time, and social media bans for accusing their first lady of being a pedophilic gay man.
In an interview with Reason, CNN's Scott Jennings recounts the conversation he had with the tech entrepreneur about his distaste for exorbitant government spending.
The order had apparently been issued just based on the father’s statement, right after he learned of the death, that the mother (his wife) “would shoot herself.”
The Supreme Court’s January docket is packed with big cases.
"Violence is anything that threatens them and their safety, so it is doxing them, it's videotaping them where they're at when they're out on operations," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.
Frederick Bardell died from treatable colon cancer after waiting six months for a colonoscopy.
Presidents should try to nudge the world toward more trade and less war whenever possible. Trump is doing the opposite.
rules an Arizona appellate court, rejecting defendants' claims that the case was moot, and wasn't timely filed.
The ruling, which emphasizes the lack of historical support for such a law, is unlikely to survive en banc review.
It is now available on SSRN. The revision adds additional evidence, and takes account of various recent events, including Trump's military intervention in Venezuela.
at least when the dispute is over a simple identification error./
unconstitutionally compels speech, says the Eighth Circuit federal court of appeals.
If the decision doesn't go en banc, it may go to the Supreme Court, because the Second Circuit held the opposite (and there's thus a circuit split).
Even as the president blows up drug boats, the government routinely declines to pursue charges against smugglers nabbed by the Coast Guard.
Plaintiff claims his actual offenses were a curfew violation during 2020 protests and spitting on FBI agent.
So concludes a federal district in Louisiana, disagreeing with a Ninth Circuit panel.
The president asserted broad powers to deport people, impose tariffs, and deploy the National Guard based on his own unilateral determinations.
Puzzling over a curious omission from the conservative justice.
Despite their general ignorance of constitutional law, bears pose a much less grave threat to your civil liberties than humans do.
From a Justice Department press release as to the original forgery: "Michael Arnstein's blatant criminal scheme to exploit the authority of the federal judiciary for his company's benefit was outrageous. As Arnstein has learned, his attempts to remove negative reviews about his business from Google search results by forging a U.S. District Court judge's signature may have worked in the short term, but it also earned him nine months in a federal prison."
Creeping authoritarianism in the European Union gets pushback from an administration that has its own rocky relationship with free speech.
Presidents, legislators, and police officers were desperate to blame anyone but themselves.
So holds a majority of the Eighth Circuit federal court of appeals, sitting en banc.
Is unfettered majority rule actually a good idea for the left to embrace?
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It is yet another ruling that shields the government from liability for damages caused by law enforcement.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s latest is an anti-tech omnibus, combining years' worth of dangerous policy ideas into one big, bad bill.
Critics of cash bail say it creates a two-tiered justice system: Those who can pay maintain their freedom, while those unable to pay remain behind bars.
ICE Salt Lake City apparently isn't answering its phone.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said "videotaping" agents was violence—but Border Patrol brought a film crew to Chicago-area raids.
But the Colorado Court of Appeals just reversed that, in part on First Amendment grounds.
The Trump administration's chest-pounding approach is costing lives and eroding freedoms.
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