A Prison Guard Who Pepper-Sprayed an Inmate Without Provocation Got Qualified Immunity. SCOTUS Disagreed.
An encouraging sign from the Supreme Court
An encouraging sign from the Supreme Court
Platform censorship results from centralized design. Cryptocurrency techies are building decentralized alternatives.
Plastic surgeon David Shifrin is suing commenters who posted negative reviews based on an ex-patient's critical YouTube video. (There are also libel claims in the lawsuit as well.)
Thomas is right that the doctrine is a mess. But the Court may not be in any hurry to clean it up.
The election systems company is taking its fight to the conspiratorial My Pillow CEO.
This misguided effort to combat "misinformation" is a brazen assault on free speech.
Justice Thomas dissented from denial of certiorari by himself to urge a revamp of Takings Clause jurisprudence.
Government agencies have repeatedly proven themselves to be abusive.
A sloppy panopticon is almost as dangerous as an effective one.
Just like a city can allow some monuments in city parks without having to allow others.
The ruling denies relief under a state constitutional provision requiring compensation for "taking" or "damaging" of private property by the government. Many other states have similar provisions.
The Oregon Supreme Court has agreed to reconsider its earlier precedents denying non-media speakers certain First Amendment libel law protections.
A bill approved by the state House would let people sue government officials for violating rights protected by the state constitution.
He was no libertarian, but he absorbed an important lesson about regulating speech.
My article was about Kelly Hyman v. Alex Daoud, in which a court order seemed to command all Internet "services" to remove material that mentions plaintiff or her husband (retired federal bankruptcy judge Paul Hyman).
It's the result of our overly politicized culture where many people like to shame and destroy their enemies, but it is undermining the benefits of free and open dialogue.
The appeals court concluded that the officers' use of force was reasonable in the circumstances.
That's tomorrow (as I write this), 2 to 3 pm Pacific time; free, but registration required.
Behemoth frontman Adam 'Nergal' Darski was fined $5,000 for a 2019 social media post that showed him stepping on an image of the Virgin Mary.
A new study provides further evidence that property seizures are driven by financial motives rather than public safety concerns.
You may have seen stories about the operation of Facebook's new and innovative "Supreme Court." Don't believe 'em.
Online companies might not be as nefarious as you think.
The policies he favors would arbitrarily limit Second Amendment rights and threaten the industry that makes it possible to exercise them.
The unfolding legal saga of City of Hayward v. Stoddard-Nunez
I'm serializing a forthcoming law review article of mine.
Abrasive, tasteless, and uncompromising, Flynt undoubtedly made the world safer for speech of all varieties.
Plus: The aftermath of the New York Times' anti-Pornhub crusade, and more...
whenever the judge, prosecutor, or police officer demands that the relative's name be taken down.
One provision has been invalidated, but the general ban on boycotts of Israel by most state government contractors still stands.
Likely fair use, at least under the Second Circuit's precedents.
"It is simply not reasonable for a plaintiff to bring a case alleging that his constitutional rights were violated by state officials and not expect the facts on which those officials based their actions to be included in the public record of a case."
Tech companies should have the same freedom to choose their customers.
A person you know might be having an online conversation without a transcriptionist and a fact-checker right now, and we have to stop it.
"Unfit to Print: The Post publishes column The Times wouldn't"
My conversation with Prof. Eric Goldman (Santa Clara) via the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy.
Plus: Biden won't pursue Trump's TikTok and WeChat bans, Mitt Romney's child allowance plan, and more...
Third Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas has been appointed to hear the case.
No amount of parsing can obscure his responsibility for the deadly attack on the Capitol.
The First Amendment and statutory questions in the Douglass Mackey / Ricky Vaughn case.