COVID-19 Pulls Back the Mask on America's Prison System
This deadly and contagious disease has exposed problems with prison systems that have been ignored for decades.
This deadly and contagious disease has exposed problems with prison systems that have been ignored for decades.
Chicago used its food licensing laws to harass a nonprofit providing free food to protesters.
The redefinition of the term diminishes actual victims of violence and trivializes why people are protesting.
Straka loses on his discrimination, cyberbullying, defamation, and breach of contract claims.
Fitness centers across the state are turning up the resistance to lockdown orders.
Plaintiff had sufficiently alleged that the defendant didn't just create the list as a platform for others, but herself posted material about him -- though whether plaintiff ultimately prevails will depend on what discovery reveals.
The legislation cuts lots of red tape surrounding the visa process.
"While Ms. Trump unquestionably possesses the same First Amendment expressive rights belonging to all Americans, she also possesses the right to enter into contracts, including the right to contract away her First Amendment rights." One precedent supporting that proposition: Another Trump v. Trump, a 1992 case involving Ivana Trump and Donald Trump.
Washington, D.C.'s writing "Black Lives Matter" on a street and letting others paint "Defund the Police" next to it doesn't require D.C. to let others paint messages on other streets.
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So says a Third Circuit panel, though other circuits disagree.
This one focuses on student groups that get funding from public colleges, but it's an unconstitutional viewpoint-based restriction.
Seattle police have arrested dozens of protesters during their sweep of the so-called Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.
The answer speaks volumes about the extent to which that doctrine protects police officers from liability for outrageous conduct.
The Souls of Yellow Folk author says a new "elite consensus" fixated on racial outrage is forming and may destroy our ability to function.
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"Hate speech" would be defined as an intentional "insulting statement about a group of persons because of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity or physical, mental or intellectual disability."
The media and activists are using revisionist history of the Stonewall Riots to fit their intersectional narrative.
Can the government compel speech? For Supreme Court justices, that seems to depend on the content of that speech.
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America certainly has work to do on race, but ritual and symbolic acts aren't the way forward.
"[The Oberlin] panel's decision was arguably inexplicable. Per the terms of Oberlin's Policy, intoxication does not negate consent—only 'incapacitation' does.... And the record here provided no apparent basis for a finding that Roe [was incapacitated]."
Roberts dissented in 2016 when SCOTUS struck down an abortion law. What changed this time around?
The Chief Justice provides the pivotal vote in the June Medical Services abortion case and Seila Law v. CFPB.
"To survive as a ... professor requires constant self-censorship and compromise, especially in the humanities .... Resistance comes at a cost .... [H]er colleague ..., a law professor, was interrogated and suspended from teaching after publishing a series of essays critical of ...."
The 4-2 ruling is reminiscent of the federal Supreme Court's dubious decision in Kelo v. City of New London, which also upheld a condemnation for a project that turned out to be a dud.
You generally can't claim self-defense if you're a robber "defending" yourself against your victim's own self-defense—but do you also lose your self-defense rights if your only crime is illegally carrying a handgun?
Rep. Devin Nunes can't hold Twitter liable for allegedly defamatory posts by Twitter user:
The Fox News host says reforming qualified immunity would "end law enforcement." That's not even close to being true.
State reform isn't a complete substitute for abolition of the federal judicial doctrine. But it can achieve a lot. A recent Colorado law provides a model other states would do well to imitate.
The plaintiffs argue that the city's tolerance of the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest has resulted in lawlessness and lost business.
A Second Amendment hypocrite with a plan to undermine federalism
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals acknowledged that the plaintiff's Eighth Amendment rights were violated.
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Judge Adelman's article sharply criticizing the Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit concluded, was largely permissible under the Canons of Judicial Conduct, except "the opening two sentences of the article and the criticisms of recent policy positions taken by one political party."
"Publicly expressing anger toward an elected official is not a basis for entry of an injunction. In public debate, elected officials must tolerate insulting remarks—even angry, outrageous speech—to provide breathing room for the First Amendment."