"Plaintiff was not informed by his legal counsel prior to filing suit of the potential for immediate disclosure of his name if his Motion to Proceed Under Pseudonym was denied."
The social worker had reported the parents for educational neglect; the parents argue this was knowingly false, because the social worker knew the parents "were in compliance with their statutory obligation to educate their child" by home schooling.
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"They put that man in that cell, left him there to die," said an attorney for the man's family. "And that's exactly what happened."
What happened to the claim that this was just about protecting young children?
The 1964 Supreme Court decision New York Times Co. v. Sullivan makes it more difficult for public figures to prove defamation—but as we saw this week, not impossible.
allegedly "threaten[ing] ... administrators, ma[king] female instructors and students uncomfortable, and show[ing] signs of 'disjointed' thinking."
The Court will determine whether the Due Process Clause prevents the government from using asset forfeiture to seize property and hold it for many months without a timely hearing.
The feds invoke national security to take away more of your rights and pretend they're keeping you safe.
"Christian libertarians" Bayard Rustin and David Dellinger challenged state power and ended up leading the civil rights movement and anti-Vietnam War protests.
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Officials who often get it wrong can’t be trusted to reliably decree what’s true.
Martha Pollack rejects the pernicious premise that universities should protect students from offensive ideas.
"The truth matters," says Dominion Voting Systems, and "lies have consequences."
"Defendants accused of creating fake social media accounts to harass PRC dissidents, and working with employees of a U.S. telecommunications company to remove dissidents from company's platform."
Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia last month on espionage charges. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in a penal colony.
Recent efforts from the governor, the attorney general, and state legislators suggest the state is moving away from capital punishment.
One of America's richest art forms suffers for seeming realer than other literature. But the war against "graphic imagery" is really a war against certain truths.
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[UPDATE: It turns out that the Maryland intermediate appellate court reached the opposite result for the same plaintiff; post bumped up so readers can see the update, which is available in the second half of this post.].]
"By maintaining access to these records, the Court promotes the public's interest 'in ascertaining what evidence and records the District Court ... relied upon in reaching [its] decision,' and the Court provides 'the public with a more complete understanding of the judicial system, including a better perception of its fairness.'"
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Never underestimate officials’ ability to turn embarrassing moments into awful opportunities.
"It is critical to our mission as a university to think deeply about freedom of expression and the challenges that result from assaults on it," said Cornell President Martha E. Pollack.
Pretrial rulings recognized the falsity of the election-fraud claims that the outlet aired and rejected three of its defenses.
"These things are just so inexcusable," a judge said. "It's hard to understand."
Overall human freedom peaked in 2007, according to the Cato Institute, and governments' COVID response merely exacerbated the trend toward a radically less-free planet.
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The Mississippi Court of Appeals splits 5-4 on the subject.
My presentation covers an important takings case currently before the Supreme Court.
The appeals court's unpublished order avoids some of the district court's errors, but still has some significant problems, especially with regard to standing.
It’s not the FDA’s job to tell doctors what to do.
Prosecutors could end up with a trove of patient-level data regarding highly personal drugs like Viagra, abortion pills, and more.
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The authors of The Individualists talk Rand, Friedman, Hayek, Rothbard, and the "struggle for the soul" of the libertarian movement.
'Digidog is out of the pound," New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared, not ominously.
Robert Delgado's family is now seeking damages.
Decentralizing power is better than trying to jam one vision down the throats of the unwilling.
The COVID-19 lab leak theory was labeled "misinformation." Now it's the most plausible explanation.
Bullet speed matters, but so does bullet weight
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone was unimpressed by the Biden administration's argument that marijuana users are too "dangerous" to own guns.
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