The FBI Wants To Treat Carter Page Warrant Mistakes Like Training Problems. A Court Adviser Says That's Not Enough.
After seriously messing up its warrant applications with the FISA Court, can the FBI be trusted?
After seriously messing up its warrant applications with the FISA Court, can the FBI be trusted?
The city limits busking to its tiny Theater District, and it makes you jump through hoops even to play there.
An interesting federal court opinion.
This is the case where two students were shouting "nigger" loudly when walking by UConn dorms; the students are trying to block university discipline based on their speech, including their eviction from student housing.
At least 20 officers have been suspended while the LAPD investigates the placement of innocent motorists on the gang database.
The students say their threatened punishment, for walking near student housing shouting "nigger" (at no-one in particular), violates both the First Amendment and a 1990 consent decree.
Three deputies were placed on leave after the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office received the video.
A deadly shooting on a Naval base in Florida may lead to a new battle against encryption.
"The public may well have an interest in how litigation is funded by third parties," the judge concludes. A law firm and two litigation finance companies are disputing (among other things) whether the litigation finance agreements are illegally usurious.
By complaining to Yale about Bandy Lee's violation of the Goldwater Rule, Dershowitz lets her portray herself as a brave dissident.
Signing a lease instead of a deed shouldn’t erase your right to be free of government home invasions.
Episode 9 of Free Speech Rules, a video series by UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh
So a New Jersey tax court held last week, in a case brought by prominent bank founder Vernon W. Hill.
Asheen Phansey's was responding to President Trump's threat to bomb Iranian cultural sites.
There's also more to the case, which was brought over statements made on a local TV broadcast while Morrissey was unsuccessfully running for Richmond Mayor. (He is now a state senator, elected in November.)
This is the case in which two students were walking near UConn student housing, loudly shouting "nigger" (apparently after having decided that loudly shouting "penis" wasn't good enough).
The proposal is parodying, not endorsing, the nanny state.
The overturned rules banned microscopes and shovels as drug paraphernalia and prohibited pictures of cannabis or the equipment used to grow it.
Protesters say the cost of living is too high and wealth is distributed too unequally.
The plaintiff is a former Philadelphia officer, who was charged with (and acquitted of) wrongly threatening people with a gun; she claims the documentary wrongly portrayed her as "dirty and dishonest."
The statements about former law student Jonathan Mullane were either fair report of court proceedings or constitutionally protected opinions (e.g., calling Mullane "'rude,' 'dumb,' 'unethical,' a 'little entitled ponce,' and a 'dauphin'").
The Cato Institute wants Congress to investigate the FBI after it refused to confirm or deny the existence of files on dozens of political advocacy groups.
that I had gotten from a court docket while it has not been sealed, but that the movant is seeking to seal.
The high school student was falsely accused of racial harassment, and has sued media companies for $800 million.
Chief Michel R. Moore: "There is no place in the Department for any individual who would purposely falsify information on a Department report."
A massive 15 foot tall Trump/Pence yard sign has unfortunately turned political.
No, says the trial court, and the Minnesota Court of Appeals agrees.
"If 2018 was the year that the concept of 'cancel culture' went mainstream, then 2019 may be the year that cancel culture cancels itself."
Lenny Pozner has tried to get Amazon Web Services to remove a post of mine.
"The point was to engage students in an otherwise dry and difficult subject material."
An attorney for Nick Flor says calls his effective termination "unfathomable."
"We're here because we have to play offense and defense against this growing hate in this country and in this world."
Jurors remain free to exercise judgment and mercy in a criminal justice system that often lacks both.
They probably won't succeed in criminalizing Pornhub, but manifesto-wielding conservatives are trying to reshape the GOP into a movement against individualism.
Such a high approval rate reflects the threat these laws pose to due process and the Second Amendment.
"I have no faith left in call-out vigilante justice."
The Illinois State Police confirms that people who try newly legal marijuana are not considered "unlawful users" of narcotics.
No dice, says the District Court.
Two victims were killed at a church shooting in White Settlement, Texas. It would have been much worse had some parishioners not been armed.
Media theorist Marshall McLuhan's work best explains how the world changed in the 2010s—and what we can expect in the decade ahead.
A company had a trademark canceled in a Trademark Trial & Appeal Board proceeding, based on what the Board described as the company's "delaying tactics, including the willful disregard of Board orders." The TTABlog posted about it, and some commenters criticized the company's lawyer, Ohio State Prof. Charles L. (Lee) Thomason—so he is suing them for libel.
So concludes the California Supreme Court (by a 4-3 vote), applying the California Constitution; it remands for further fact-finding on the law's practical costs and benefits.
"Other statements by Complainant ... along with undisputed other evidence, entirely disprove her bare assertions that she was incapacitated."
A judge concluded that the restrictions violate the state constitution's free speech guarantee.