Child Custody Conditions Restricting Parents' Speech and Gun Storage
An interesting, though inconclusive, case involving preppers.
An interesting, though inconclusive, case involving preppers.
An interesting post by Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) on a demand letter ProctorU sent to UCSB.
The biggest thing our institutions could do to stop the spread of COVID-19 misinformation would be to spread less misinformation themselves.
though subject to stringent rules aimed at preventing coronavirus spread.
Or is the Second Amendment suspended for the duration of the epidemic?
Plus "An accused student's rights must be guaranteed—not left open for interpretation."
Can it justify temporarily forbidding people to buy guns?
Despite broad claims from the company, available police reports don't support the idea that filming everything in front of people's doors stops much crime.
It depends on the state where you live.
The district court reasoned that sealing was justified because of "the child's privacy interest in being protected from financial predators or others who would harass the child simply because they know the amount received." No, said the Fifth Circuit.
It particularly emphasizes ways in which weak property rights harm the poor and disadvantaged.
Emergency restrictions should always be lifted as soon as the crisis has sufficiently abated.
Plus: the pandemic in prisons, pushback on Trump's prescription for economic rebound, and more...
The contagious spread of information is in a race against the contagious spread of coronavirus.
They have a long history of spying on dissident political groups, from early 20th century socialists and mid-century civil rights leaders to modern environmentalists and Black Lives Matter.
Congress should loudly and unanimously reject this insanity.
An important principle, which also applies to uses of trademarked terms in films, books, video games, and the like: "A party does not violate trademark law solely by using words another entity has trademarked."
Under current Supreme Court precedent, the answer is almost always going to be "no." But some compensation may be morally imperative, even if not legally required.
The California Court of Appeal reversed, in an interesting case about allegations of physical abuse—and claims that the allegations were themselves a form of "abuse."
The NYU Law professor thinks we're in for a mess of bad epidemiology, ineffective stimulus, and misguided quarantines.
Politicians seem to be proceeding on the dangerous assumption that cost-effectiveness does not matter.
The restrictions are less dangerous precisely because they are so broad and onerous.
The plaintiffs are claiming, among other things, "group libel."
The new bill takes aim at internet freedom and privacy under the pretense of saving kids.
Will coronavirus help rehabilitate tech's rep?
Why there are no "exceptions" to Article III
New York Times columnist and Decadent Society author defends prohibitionism in a conversation on The Fifth Column.
The order activates a pre-existing ordinance, which authorizes a wide range of actions, including curfews, alcohol sales, gun sales, property seizures, and more.
The Illinois Appellate Court's decision interprets the Illinois version of the RFRA, and the separate Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act (which bans all discrimination "because of [a] person's conscientious refusal to receive, obtain, accept, perform, assist, counsel, suggest, recommend, refer or participate in any way in any particular form of health care services contrary to his or her conscience").
Plague Inc. simulates the spread of coronavirus.
Fatal police shootings and the Fourth Amendment
A case decided Monday reaffirms this principle, especially in the Seventh Circuit.
Some Republican senators are working hard to get Trump behind stronger fixes.
Plus: A second person appears to be cured of HIV, cops can destroy your home for no reason and refuse to pay, and more...
at least under the Illinois "innocent construction" rule, under which "a nondefamatory interpretation must be adopted if it is reasonable"—"a reasonable reading of Lorenz's article is that although Wedgewood communicated with underage girls, he never meant to take things further."
A new lawsuit is challenging the California DMV's rejection of allegedly offensive personalized license plates.
The extent of state and federal quarantine powers is surprisingly unsettled.