"After Murray relocated to another state, he contacted the Oceanside Police Department. He then learned the police report he received from Eva-Zacchara had been altered to support her version of events. The real police report concluded 'no assault could be substantiated.'"
But note that the school board chair opined that the book shouldn't be in the library, either.
The dog died after the man went to jail for exercising his First Amendment rights.
The Supreme Court's notion of "fair notice," which it says requires blocking many civil rights lawsuits, is based on a demonstrably false assumption.
Requiring that homes and apartments be a minimum size is a major driver of high housing costs. A new lawsuit from a nonprofit developer argues those rules are also unconstitutional.
The idea that massive government spending, hate speech laws, and gun control will improve America—when they failed horribly elsewhere—is a dangerous myth.
Such motions are "not uncommon in self-defense cases where there is a dispute over who bears responsibility."
An interesting "harassment, intimidate, or bullying" investigation case from New Jersey schools. (Corrected version of a post initially put up yesterday.)
Several groups urging the Supreme Court to overturn New York’s virtual ban on bearing arms emphasize the policy’s racist roots and racially disproportionate impact.
against Esquire and Ryan Lizza.
An interesting “harassment, intimidate, or bullying” investigation case from New Jersey schools.
Two decades after 9/11, the government's appetite for spying has only grown.
An FBI document reminds us: Your cell phone provider knows where you've been—and will tell the feds.
When "protecting users' safety" actually means the opposite
30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, its greatest—and last—chess champion reflects on the awful system that produced him.
Carrying this archaeologists' accessory in the city's downtown without government permission is now a misdemeanor.
The smaller the teapot, the bigger the tempest.
The first will be with Jane Bambauer, Ash Bhagwat, Christopher Yoo, and me, this Tuesday at noon Pacific.
whether by mail, by phone, or by social media—and whether about the generals' (or admirals') gender identities or religious beliefs or political beliefs or anything else.
A Magistrate Judge has just issued a Report and Recommendation recommending that the case be dismissed, on the grounds that the allegations were substantially true.
Be concrete and specific enough to pass the high bar needed to defeat the presumption of open access—and get it right the first time.
The justices will hear United States v. Texas and Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson on November 1.
The Court will hear oral argument in the two cases on November 1.
The Texas law “could just as easily be used by other States to restrict First or Second Amendment rights,” the Firearms Policy Coalition tells SCOTUS.
The gun rights group has filed a brief supporting the petition for certiorari in one of the cases challenging the controversial Texas abortion law.
The Second Amendment right is vibrant and prominent for many citizens. The Seventh Amendment right has shriveled to a husk of its former self.
In a lawsuit, Marc Crawford's widow says the state refused to give him his prescriptions and his chemotherapy.
Free speech on campus is in jeopardy. But many people on the left and the right are rising to fight for our liberal democratic values.
Recognizing the difference between substantive and procedural rights helps enormously in understanding the battles over applying the first eight amendments of the U.S. Constitution to the states. Procedural rights have failed; not only have they not improved procedures, they have made things worse.
When employees tried their hand at a shakedown, CEO Ted Sarandos buckled a bit under the pressure.
"What they're doing is like robbery," observed one property owner.
Plus: Cuba violates the rights of peaceful protesters, New Zealand leads the world in zoning reform, and more...
Yale Law School's diversity miseducation.
Substantive rights have a core that can be meaningfully interpreted and protected; they can exist independently of a particular government or a particular legal system. Procedural rights lack such an independent core because they are necessarily embedded in a whole system of legal procedure, and they depend on that system for their meaning.
Despite his criticisms of Roe, he also believed in stare decisis
So holds a federal district court, rejecting plaintiff's theories that (among other things) the government compelled the suspension, and that the government and YouTube were engaged in "joint action."
Recent Supreme Court rulings and developments in state legislatures have dashed hopes for a quick end to the pernicious doctrine that protects abusive law enforcement officials.
