One-Year Sentence for Forgery of Court Order, Aimed at Getting Patch.com Article Altered or Deindexed
... though the defendant's other crimes likely affected the sentence.
... though the defendant's other crimes likely affected the sentence.
An outcome that's all too rare. Former police officer Matthew Johns attacked a suspect in September 2016, leaving the teen unconscious and with a severe concussion.
The New York Times columnist emailed a professor to complain about a mean tweet—and cc'ed the provost.
Activist Nury Turkel discusses the vast network of camps that may hold over a million Uighurs in western China.
The comedian's new Netflix special deftly skewers woke scolds.
That material: Photoshopped pictures of PM Narendra Modi "embracing his right-hand man Rajnath Singh on an idyllic beach."
The federal government continues to deny any liability for deliberately flooding thousands of homes and other property in Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
The unsurprising result of conservatives complaining about Big Tech bias: less speech, not more
It’s the Trump administration vs. civil rights groups on federal protections from workplace discrimination.
Sealed memos fought over in federal court last week show authorities have known for years that claims about Backpage were bogus.
By punishing Jeff Klinzman, Kirkwood Community College has dealt a blow to free speech.
But at least he wasn't labeled a "copyright orc" ....
An open immigration policy means letting people from anywhere work for whatever amount they want.
When it comes to deciding who should keep their Second Amendment rights, the deck is stacked against gun owners.
The mysterious "hybrid rights" doctrine comes up again—but might not matter.
The ruling once again shows the legal disgrace that is qualified immunity.
"Joke or not, these types of comments are felonies under the law," says the Volusia County Sheriff's Office
There are different legal standards for the two actions, the Michigan Court of Appeals correctly concludes (in the Siwatu-Salama Ra case).
"Eugene Volokh told the police he refuses to leave me alone."
Simon Cheng Man-kit, a staffer at the British Consulate in Hong Kong, hasn't returned from a trip he took to mainland China nearly two weeks ago.
Facing his district for the first time since going independent, the libertarian congressman preaches legislative process and constitutional principle to an audience thirsty for gun fixes.
The gun control group's new policy proposal is radical, intersectional, and deeply contradictory.
A then-pregnant Siwatu-Salama Ra was sentenced to two years in prison after using an unloaded gun to protect herself, her daughter, and her mom.
... if you're asserting your own rights of access (which all of us have) to court records.
The move would violate the First Amendment.
Only if you assume they would have happened in the absence of gun confiscation orders.
Ursula Wing sold abortion drugs to U.S. customers and is now charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States.
... by a federal district court decision yesterday, in a case brought by a pro se litigant in New Jersey.
The FBI is looking for companies to comb through social media posts and pinpoint possible threats ahead of time. Think of it like a meme-illiterate Facebook-stalking precog from Minority Report.
You can literally wear your principles on your sleeve while baffling facial recognition technology.
“It was healthy discourse in a controlled environment,” said one Proud Boy. But was it?
It’s time for SCOTUS to revisit the "border search exception" to the Fourth Amendment.
The Democratic presidential contender suggests that "racist threats or anti-immigrant manifestos" could justify federal gun confiscation orders.
That's so regardless of whether the statement is seen as a true threat or incitement—and it applies to any "harmful" speech "inten[ded] to retaliate" against anyone giving law enforcement "any truthful information" related to a federal crime.
The five Democrats warn that the Court may have to be "restructured" if it keeps making decisions they don't like.
The Rhode Island attorney general and state police are investigating a video of a correctional officer driving through a wave of protesters.
Despite police harassment and border confiscations, protest supplies continue to make their way to dissidents.
If your neighbor were unbalanced, armed to the teeth and busy posting social-media messages about how much he hates you, you'd certainly support measures to disarm him. But you'd feel more secure if he didn't hate you in the first place.
The ads are the first to be banned since the new law went into effect in June.
Israel's decision to bar two US members of Congress from entering the country is part of a much broader problem. Many nations, including the US, have similar policies. Here's why such restrictions should be abolished.
Trying to get the government involved in what sort of videos online platforms promote or hide is going to end badly.
The justices would be abdicating their duty to uphold the Constitution if they let such political considerations decide legal issues.
The nation's leading scholar of mass shootings explains how media coverage of horrific events such as El Paso and Dayton stoke unwarranted fear and anxiety.
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