Federal Court Holds Pennsylvania's Shutdown Order Unconstitutional: Limits on Public Gatherings
It also strikes down the stay-at-home order and business closings, but I'll discuss that in separate posts.
It also strikes down the stay-at-home order and business closings, but I'll discuss that in separate posts.
The federal definition of child pornography does not encompass risqué dancing by clothed 11-year-olds.
U.S. officials claim their espionage laws apply to the world, but constitutional protections do not.
Plus: More red states may get legal weed, antitrust action against Google expected this week, the Cuties controversy, and more...
The escalation is part of a strategy to unmask China's abuses before the world.
Plaintiffs claimed that defendants had libeled them to foreign officials—but didn't have enough evidence that the defendants had actually said anything to those officials.
As the pandemic rages on, nominally free countries are sliding down a path blazed by authoritarian regimes.
A week after being sued over his arbitrary COVID-19 policy, Gov. Charlie Baker says he will allow arcades to reopen.
The 5th Circuit judge is a mixed bag from a libertarian perspective.
A federal lawsuit argues that the distinction drawn by Massachusetts is unconstitutional.
"This current incident, and Marshall's response so far, seem disturbingly similar to prevalent behavior in China [during the Cultural Revolution]—spurious accusations against innocent people, which escalated into institutional insanity."
would they be likely to hire blacks for jobs in China, or anywhere where they might have to hear Mandarin?
More on the Mandarin "neige" controversy.
"In effect, Maffick contends that it is likely to succeed on the merits because its CEO says so. That is far from enough to establish a likelihood of success on the merits, particularly in light of the largely undisputed counter-evidence Facebook tendered."
Fortunately, the N.Y. State Education Department has now reversed the decision, which had been made by the Valley Central School District (about 70 miles north of New York City).
Plus: People have doubts about democracy, Washington state sues Juul, and more...
From Prof. John McWhorter (Columbia) in The Atlantic.
“Just because the story and the photograph may be embarrassing or distressful to the plaintiff does not mean the newspaper cannot publish what is otherwise newsworthy.”
The Cincinnati Enquirer and I have just filed a petition seeking this, in the Ohio Court of Appeals.
Plus: Congress to vote on marijuana decriminalization, tech visas are getting turned down at high rates, and more...
A thought experiment that came to my mind; I'd love to hear what others think about it.
Plus a new draft law review article on the subject, by Prof. Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law School), a leading scholar of race and the law, and me.
Across the Atlantic from Amazonia lies ... Ambazonia.
There is enough evidence that the Times knew their allegations were false (or at least were likely false) to go to the jury.
Three interesting opinions: a sound majority, a plausible concurrence, and another concurrence focused on "hate speech" that I think is unsound.
Dean Lidsky is a libel law scholar, and one of the two Reporters of the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Defamation & Privacy.
The Fourth Circuit decides a case involving defendants who violently participated in two white supremacist rallies in California and in the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, but the logic applies equally to rioters of all stripes.
The new law features harsher penalties, 12-hour detentions, and other invitations to abuse government power
When can libel plaintiffs, suing over allegedly false claims of sexual misconduct, sue pseudonymously? When can defendants defend pseudonymously?
So holds a federal court, quite correctly; of course, the same is true about any religious group, racial group, or other such large group.
"This research will inform and fuel much needed and overdue policy change."
An interesting decision in former AP journalist Charles Ganske's lawsuit against former Member of Parliament Louise Mensch, with allegations of Russian bots and Tweeting frenzies thrown in for good measure.
The vice presidential candidate opportunistically painted the site's co-founders as villains when they were actually helping law enforcement to catch sex traffickers.
Unconstitutional, says a Massachusetts appellate court (correctly).
"CBP asks the Court to close the stable door to keep an invisible horse from bolting. But that stable door sat open for five months before CBP asked the Court to secure it. Neither the Court nor CBP know whether the horse is gone, but the possibility that it's still be there can't outweigh public's interest in open doors."
would clearly violate the Constitution, and so would giving a ticket to your lover because of the romantic relationship.
The First Amendment protects "'anti-Israeli, anti-Zionist, [and] antisemitic" speech, the court correctly observes.
threatens to kick students out of class for "othering." Fortunately, the university has stepped in and rejected this position.