"The defendants' [reliance] on ... source materials, including an official congressional report, articles in well-known newspapers and magazines, and police reports ... '... alone ... defeat[s] any claim of actual malice.'"
Appellate briefs need to be treated as public documents, and (I argued) shouldn't be "provisionally" sealed for months or years without findings that such sealing (or, more often, redaction) is genuinely necessary.
Fearmongering about mass school shootings leads to some dumb, privacy-threatening ideas.
After a month of tear gas and beatings and gunfire, Iranians may not be convinced to move on so easily.
Plus: Federal court dismisses state challenge to student loan debt forgiveness, not all independent contractors want to be employees, and more...
Prof. Elizabeth Weiss claims SJSU retaliated against her for her speech.
"We ... recognize ... that allowing this case to move forward could embolden abusers ... and could discourage victims and their families from seeking help. But, at the same time, we must acknowledge the potential for false accusations and the right that someone who is falsely accused has to recover for the harm thereby caused."
when the sermons lead to protests? That question is pending in Texas court.
This time could really be different.
A highway engineer got qualified immunity for detaining drivers—despite not being a cop.
"It was a waiting game, the most horrific version of a staring contest: Whose life would end first? Mine, or my daughter's?"
Livestream with Nick Gillespie, Chris Rufo, and Zach Weissmueller's about Rufo's "counterrevolution" against wokeness
UPDATE: But wait! It turns out the decision was overturned on appeal, see below. (I've changed the title to a question; it originally said such a statement was indeed "harassment, intimidation, or bullying," summarizing the initial decision.)
Carry permit applicants would have to prove they are not dangerous, and guns would be banned from myriad locations.
Craig Ridley died after corrections officers paralyzed him in a beating then left him without medical care for days.
Plus: Bite mark analysis is a sham, tax code adjusted for inflation, and more...
"Where is she going to put the grandkids if she doesn't create a bunkbed situation?"
Legislators in both states favor subjective standards and sweeping restrictions for carry permits.
"I never thought this could happen in this country," Gregory Hahn said.
Plus: The editors consider Ye and social media, then field a question about the TARP bailouts during the 2008 fiscal crisis.
Bloomberg's "The Trace" fabricates a conspiracy about amicus brief writers who adhere to Supreme Court Rules
"Committing vandalism by soup to send a message about climate change may be 'expressive,' but attempting to destroy someone else's work of art crosses moral and legal boundaries."
Plus: Rethinking "zombie cells," Truth Social whistleblower speaks out, and more...
Too much government authority lends itself to swatting-style abuse.
"While we are dribbling a ball on the other side of the ocean, people are losing their loved ones, losing their lives, and losing their hopes."
Doing so qualifies as a taking requiring "just compensation" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Plaintiffs want the nanny state to nanny harder.
Plus: Virginia lawmaker wants to criminalize parents who don't affirm child's gender identity, inflation is up 8.2 percent over the past 12 months, and more...
So holds the Tennessee Court of Appeals.
An important victory against "self-dealing" by state and local governments.
Under H.B. 6454, prescribing puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones would be treated as a more severe form of child abuse than starving or abandoning a kid.
Plus: Copyright versus the internet, roofer helping rebuild hurricane-damaged Florida houses arrested for lack of Florida license, and more...
The president supports the law that could send his son to prison for lying about his personal habits while buying a firearm.
Even when there's good reason to criticize universities, we should keep the students out of our battles.
Any new rules for the crypto market should protect entrepreneurs and investors from overzealous intervention, not subject them to it.
The state can't really banish ideas, and it's dangerous to try.
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