HHS Blames Trump Policy for 180,000 Unplanned Pregnancies
Plus: Clarity on Adam Toledo's death, Big Tech antitrust bill approved by House Democrats, and more...
Plus: Clarity on Adam Toledo's death, Big Tech antitrust bill approved by House Democrats, and more...
Pacira Biosciences' redacted brief supporting the motion for the preliminary injunction is now available—but it says nothing about the First Amendment, or about how the injunction could escape the prior restraint doctrine.
Remember when Republicans believed private businesses had a right to exercise free speech?
Pacira Biosciences, Inc. is suing over allegedly "false and misleading statements made about EXPAREL, a pain medication drug."
if it's used as an attempt to get a settlement, the Ninth Circuit rules .
A ban won’t stop mass shootings, but it will hinder self-defense.
Leveling that grave accusation at every aspect of American life will produce disengagement, alienation, and reaction.
Conservative state legislators are taking a page from the playbook of pro-immigration activists and the marijuana legalization movement.
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The 9-7 en banc ruling appears to rest on the ban applying on to doctors who know the woman's reason; women could apparently still get such abortions if they don't disclose the reason.
The mandatory online training requires users to select the “right” speech before they finish.
"Terror and dread fill academic workers, professors, and staff alike, and it is everywhere."
A police officer pulled the trigger. But Wright shouldn't have been pulled over in the first place.
The president is picking fights with much of the population and further dividing the country.
Plus: GOP gender policing in North Carolina, marijuana legalization mistakes, and more...
The surveillance state is available as a plug-and-play solution for any cop interested in a free trial period.
It all depends on where you are.
The president's unilateral restrictions are legally dubious and unlikely to "save lives."
"Categories, microworks, and market circularity."
It is the third state to rein in the legal doctrine that protects state actors from accountability for misconduct.
"Defendant has established that the images are a matter of public concern, as they speak to Plaintiff's character and qualifications for her position as a Congresswoman, allegedly depicting an extramarital sexual relationship with a paid campaign staff member, the use of illegal drugs by a sitting Congresswoman, and a tattoo similar to the symbols formerly used by white supremacists."
“While the penalty of suspension is very harsh, it is not shockingly disproportionate to the offense. It does not shock the conscience for a university, acting during a pandemic, to enforce rules designed to prevent the spread of the virus with the penalty of suspension.”
So holds the Florida Court of Appeal, interpreting the Florida Constitution's crime victims' rights provision. ("If a prosecutor determines that the officer was not a victim and instead charges the officer for his conduct," the names would be released, but no such determination was made here.)
Plus: Effort to decriminalize psychedelics gains traction in California, crony capitalism at its worst, and more...
An interesting controversy involving Portland State University.
The pandemic pushed Americans to consider police reform while other countries moved to unleash their cops.
A free online conference sponsored by the LeFrak Forum on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy at Michigan State University.
The Federal Highway Administration is asking Texas officials to hit pause on a massive highway widening project while it examines whether it violates Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Plus: Copyright case a win for Google and fair use, California considering repeal of its "loitering with intent to commit prostitution" law, and more...
Existing laws are more than adequate to handle the Capitol rioters.
"This is beyond the pale. The indiscriminate use of the confidentiality stamp alone warrants the denial of the entirety of the motions."
A moot case about Trump blocking tweets leads to concerns that tech companies have too much control over speech.
The chaos at Lake Washington Institute of Technology is by no means an isolated occurrence.
Gripes about publishers getting "private commercial benefit" from "hate speech, propaganda, and statements that seek to destabilize American democracy"; argument that "[t]he public figure doctrine emerged in an era prior to the Internet advertising model that rewards news organizations for the ongoing display of defamatory content."
Remember: Lawyers’ true superpower is the power to turn all questions into questions about procedure.
A privacy controversy in a lawsuit by privacy advocate Marc Rotenberg (formerly of EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center).
“An officer violates the Fourth Amendment if he shoots an unarmed, incapacitated suspect who is moving away from everyone present at the scene.”
The lawsuit was brought by casino developer Steve Wynn, over a press release put out by Bloom related to a sexual harassment claim that Bloom's firm brought on behalf of a dancer.