No, the Kelo Case Doesn't Require Takings Compensation for Businesses Closed by Coronavirus Shutdown Orders
Despite a contrary argument by Prof. Enrique Guerra-Pujol, Kelo doesn't even address the relevant issue.
Despite a contrary argument by Prof. Enrique Guerra-Pujol, Kelo doesn't even address the relevant issue.
The Federalist's Ben Domenech is fighting the government in court.
The case is an important one that could be headed to the Supreme Court.
The Mat-Su School Board evidently doesn't understand the purpose of a school.
Barr: "The Constitution is not suspended in times of crisis."
Western countries aren’t immune to the siren call of surveillance via commerce-tracking.
The court was applying a specific Virginia statute that limited the Governor's emergency powers as to guns.
The state has already appealed the decision to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Court decided that New York City's revision of its restrictions on transporting guns gave the plaintiffs what they sought.
The Eighth Circuit lawsuit remains pending.
Requiring unanimous juries underscores the gravity of a death penalty sentence.
The strict stay-at-home order received a great deal of backlash for its more arbitrary prohibitions.
Anti-porn crusaders get their panties in a twist about a uptick in porn consumption during COVID-19.
Westport won’t be using tech to monitor people’s body temperatures or whether they’re properly social distancing.
"It's far worse than we could have imagined," the student's attorney tells Reason.
Economists David Henderson and Justin Wolfers debate whether the coronavirus lockdowns are doing more harm than good.
Contact tracing might offer hope for slowing the spread of the pandemic—or fulfill every Big Brother-ish fear privacy advocates have ever raised.
Hoover Institution's David Henderson vs. University of Michigan's Justin Wolfers
While his own prison is not yet facing a huge problem, Brandon Baxter had a prescient complaint for which he seems to be being punished.
And they would, I think, be peaceable assembly protected by the First Amendment, even in a time of epidemic.
I have a contribution (coauthored with Shelley Ross Saxer) in this symposium on last year's important Supreme Court takings decision.
But the ban might still be blocked as to women who are far enough along in their pregnancies that delaying an abortion would make it illegal.
While denying Donald Trump's dictatorial impulses, William Barr notes that public health emergencies do not give governments unlimited powers.
She thinks she was -- but the police thought she wasn't (based on a negative test).
The local police department says "a garage sale/yard sale is not an essential business and should not be open for business."
"Anything you can do, I can do meta."
"Unless government prohibits the event during this time, we allow it to be organized on Facebook," a company spokesperson tells Reason.
Government officials’ disdain for personal liberty and economic pain drive Americans to the streets.
Plus: Drudge challenges Trump on traffic claims, France taxes links, COVID-19 in Ohio prisons, and more...
The gatherings are ill-advised but understandable given the harms of government-enforced shutdowns.
The brief was filed by the Cato Institute on behalf of both Cato and myself.
... they apparently shed it well before the schoolhouse gate.
We may find that we like making our own decisions.
The subpoena had been issued on behalf of a criminal defendant, who wants to buttress his self-defense argument by getting a copy of an expired Instagram Story that had been sent to him by the alleged victim.
The Mississippi Court of Appeals just overturned the conviction, and struck down the underlying statute, which banned posting messages "whether truthful or untruthful" "for the purpose of causing injury to any person."
Some protestors were nasty and went overboard, but her harsh tactics will sap her legitimacy at a critical juncture.
Plus: Puerto Rico criminalizes fake news about COVID-19, wide geographic disparity in U.S. income growth, and more...
before UK independent press standards tribunal.
The common law, the First Amendment, and California court rules provide a broad right of access to court documents.
The government has broad emergency powers, but that doesn't mean the Constitution is suspended.
"We question some restrictions that she has imposed as overstepping her executive authority."
The Newsweek article, among other things, quoted a professor who said two young public supporters of Trump "'camouflage' positions of the hard right 'as feel-good sweetness and light, when, in fact, they are defending raw racism and sexual abuse.'"
Legal scholars Lindsay Wiley and Steve Vladeck explain why courts should not give special deference to the government in cases challenging the constitutionality of anti-coronavirus policies.