"Plaintiff would have his allegations litigated in a star chamber with a jury of ordinary citizens presumably barred from discussing the case after their service in a closed courtroom."
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State-level executions have been on the decline since 2000, but the federal government recently got back in the business of executing prisoners.
The Sixth Circuit joins the Eighth Circuit in recognizing the import of Chief Justice Roberts' controlling opinion in June Medical Services
So says the Minnesota Court of Appeals, as to a "harassment restraining order."
These Hawaiian shirt-wearing, gun-toting Gen Z activists say they stand with Black Lives Matter, against gun control, and are preparing for total state collapse.
A federal judge makes it clear: "the consumption of alcohol at a party does not vitiate journalistic intent"; hard-drinking reporters are as covered by the journalist's privilege as the abstemious. Other journalistic traditions that aren't disqualifying: bias, and bearing grudges.
San Francisco writer Guy Smith finds little evidence that the availability of firearms explains differences in suicide and homicide rates.
The legal doctrine makes it considerably harder to hold cops accountable. Trump refused to address it.
An attempt to protect litigant privacy meant that binding precedent was vanished from Westlaw.
In several cases, the Supreme Court nominee voted to allow civil rights lawsuits against officers accused of misconduct.
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The subject of the new film Mighty Ira explains why social justice warriors are wrong to attack free speech.
"Barrett says she owns a gun, but could fairly judge a case on gun rights" -- why the "but"?
The senator thinks people with felony records should lose the right to armed self-defense but not the right to cast a ballot.
If that standard were applied to other constitutional rights, no one would be left to enforce them.
Part two of a four-part series on the history of the cypherpunk movement
"If you're on that registry, you're bad."
Such theories are not based in fact.
The Texas senator notes the opposing party's blind spots on freedom of speech and the right to arms.
He seems open to materially increasing Internet service and content providers' liability for libels posted by their users, and based on other user misconduct.
"I believe that I'm channeling my ancestors," says Second Amendment activist Brent Holmes, who carries an assault rifle to protests in Richmond, Virginia.
A good illustration of the modern rule, which allows some permanent injunctions against repeating specific statements found to be libelous at trial—but only after such a finding on the merits.
Inspired by Germany's notorious hate-speech law, more countries seek to impose steep penalties on platforms that don't comply with their censorship whims.
An Ohio judge suggests the answer should be "yes," and an Ohio statute seems to require that when Facebook employees learn of specific felonies revealed by posts that they might be monitoring for some reason.
Here are some ways to build a campus culture more open to free inquiry and discourse.
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Improving diversity is a worthy endeavor. But compelled “diversity statements” are a form of social engineering that, ironically, can be exclusionary.
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Most things faculty publish don’t lead to a backlash. But that doesn’t mean that there’s not an academic freedom problem.
Two courts say COVID-19 lockdowns in Michigan and Pennsylvania were unconstitutional.
These beliefs shouldn’t be considered the only legitimate way to see the world.
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito worry about the future of religious freedom. That’s not the same as a call to overturn the decision.
The dynamics of the information ecosystem have impacted research and teaching.
Profs. Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor are guest-blogging this week about their new book.
A federal district court rejects the argument that the documentary will violate trade secret rights related to "a long-lost photograph that purportedly depicts Abraham Lincoln lying wounded on the night of his assassination."
As usual, at this point in the litigation the key questions focus on procedure.
The injunction, the court held, is an unconstitutional prior restraint.
And that's true even if state graffiti law provided probable cause for the arrest, so long as there's evidence that chalking with other messages almost never leads to arrests.
Regina Ip spins a fantasy of a just government restoring order to Hong Kong.
