The NBA's China Problem Gets Worse After 2 American Arenas Eject Hong Kong Supporters
This week's demonstrations at NBA games are a refreshing reminder that Americans won't just "stick to sports."
This week's demonstrations at NBA games are a refreshing reminder that Americans won't just "stick to sports."
"The logical conclusion of Plaintiff's argument is that whenever someone sues for defamation because of potentially embarrassing comments, the plaintiff should be allowed to sue anonymously and with the case under seal."
Years after surveillance reforms, federal personnel can’t seem to comply with the Fourth Amendment.
Should participation in an election hinge on a voter's identity being made public? Of course not.
The mostly young demonstrators are calling for autonomy and democracy—and won't be silenced like the NBA.
The gaming company suspended Chung Ng Wai for a year and confiscated his prize money after he said "Liberate Hong Kong."
Apparently the NBA's kow-towing to Communist China is not limited to groveling press statements.
Justices weigh textual conflict over what counts as “sex discrimination” versus what Congress originally intended.
A Maine court said this would violate the private investigator's First Amendment rights, even if the police concluded the statements were false, unless they were also found to have been knowingly or recklessly false -- but should even a finding of knowing falsehood be enough?
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The Court of Appeals concluded, I think correctly, that the statute went beyond punishable threats of violence, and beyond punishable blackmail, to cover constitutionally protected demands.
Reason editors discuss vaping deaths, the impeachment inquiry, and the resurgent conservative war on porn.
Does the Civil Rights Act of 1964 cover sexual orientation and gender identity?
"You gotta lower your ideals of freedom if you want to suck on the warm teat of China."
So holds a Connecticut decision, I think correctly:
When the human condition resists perfection through legislation, the answer always seems to be more—and stupider—laws.
The California Court of Appeal upheld the fee, awarded to a student who had been accused of sexual misconduct.
"Red flag" laws leave gun owners defenseless.
The 2018 Uniform Crime Report contained bad news for pessimists but good news for everybody else.
Encryption, other privacy measures, and decentralization have made the protest movement possible.
"We are confident that all members of the university community will demonstrate the highest ideals of our university."
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Is there room for the entire world on this slippery slope?
The presidential contenders hyped the "epidemic" of gun violence and the threat posed by school shootings while perpetuating myths about "assault weapons," background checks, and the Second Amendment.
Plus: Parents sue Illinois child services, Pennsylvania mulls liquor-store weed sales, Giuliani consorts with Manafort, and more...
Jim Ficken was fined $29,000 for violations of his town's tall grass ordinance.
But none seem curious about how America gun homicide rates fell nearly in half from 1990s to early 2010s.
Increasingly theatrical and frightening active shooter drills are surprisingly common, even though school shootings are not.
Although San Francisco's supervisors urged city officials to punish contractors with ties to this "domestic terrorist organization," they say they did not really mean it.
The presidential contender says the 1994 ban made mass shootings less lethal, even though the guns it tolerated were "just as deadly."
If people think cancel culture sucks now, just wait until the government gets involved.
"Go try to be funny nowadays with this woke culture."
A spokesman for Gov. Jared Polis objects to a news story not because it’s wrong, but because of who wrote it.
The Commission on Human Rights is likely running afoul of the First Amendment.
So holds a federal district judge, rejecting the defendant's motion to dismiss (though of course without resolving, at this early stage in the lawsuit, who is telling the truth).
Someone should tell Beto who did the killing at Kent State.
If you think a map of the moon might help an inmate escape, you might be a prison censor.
Congress takes up the issue of "acquitted conduct."
Would that outcome have been the same for those of us who aren't in law enforcement?
Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter are in the federal government's crosshairs, but the technology necessary to undermine their dominance may already exist.
It's apparently happening in Tennessee -- but it's clearly unconstitutional.