"While such documents may be unflattering to Defendant's business, Defendant has not satisfied the burden of showing that the documents are proprietary in nature. Nor has Defendant satisfied the burden necessary to show that any interest in maintaining secrecy is outweighed by the presumption of access."
Instead of its economy becoming more liberal, its polity is growing more illiberal.
Rural communities continue to resist their legislatures’ attempts to enact gun control by declaring themselves “Second Amendment sanctuaries.”
Episode 8 of Free Speech Rules by UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh
Criminal charges were eventually dropped, and the civil lawsuit has just been thrown out.
Cops can now request access to videos recorded by Ring, bypassing that pesky step of obtaining a search warrant first.
They simply disagree over who should be in charge of misusing and abusing those excessive powers.
You might want to think twice about putting that new gun on your credit card.
Plus: Sondland worked "on Ukraine matters at the express direction of" Trump, why hospital prices are so screwy, D.C. gets pushback for ditching sex work bill, and more...
Progressive activists want the newspaper to stop practicing balanced journalism.
Rep. Justin Amash and some progressive lawmakers are trying to block it, but most Democrats seem happy to hand more spying powers to a president they are investigating for abusing his power.
That's the claim in a federal lawsuit, which a federal judge just allowed to go forward.
"There is no room in mainstream conservatism or at YAF for holocaust deniers, white nationalists, street brawlers, or racists."
That's the question in a First Amendment lawsuit, which a federal judge has allowed to go forward.
Trump's first Supreme Court pick is better on civil liberties than his critics want to admit.
"We’re still doing interviews, speaking with students, learning what was said and the context of the comment."
The legislation would require warrants for extended surveillance, but look at what it explicitly OKs.
Plus: Uber and Los Angeles transit regulators go to war over user data, young adult novelists cancel critic, and ex-ambassador testifies in impeachment hearings.
The presidential hopeful on Thursday released a plan to regulate tech giants.
Can't buy it? That's okay, you can easily get the pieces to build one yourself.
Vanity plates are private speech in a nonpublic forum, the court holds; restrictions on such speech must be viewpoint-neutral and reasonable.
Various states sued to stop the feds from allowing such gun-making files to circulate legally. Now, a federal judge says the decision to not prohibit them was "arbitrary and capricious."
In comments to CNN on Monday night, Biden expressed a willingness to smash Section 230 in order to settle a feud his campaign is having with Facebook. That's a terrible idea.
The plaintiffs now have to prove that Remington's advertising was not only "unfair or deceptive" but "a proximate cause" of the attack.
Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless searches are reduced when entering the country, but they’re not completely erased.
And does a Vermont statute mandating such sealing apply in cases that are being litigated in federal court?
"Your statement is defamatory, and we demand that you retract it immediately," Gabbard's lawyer wrote in a letter.
The 2020 hopeful used bogus statistics to change the way colleges treat students accused of sexual assault.
A newspaper staffed by the country's most famous journalism school says it shouldn't have covered a Jeff Sessions event.
Escalating violence in Hong Kong
DART police officer Stephanie Branch illegally arrested Avi Adelman after he defied her unlawful orders to stop photographing paramedics treating an overdose.
From Australia to Massachusetts, illegal gun makers step in to supply what legal markets aren’t allowed to produce.
The protester, Chow Tsz-lok, was only 22.
In the unlikely event that the former New York mayor wins the Democratic nomination, the 2020 election will pit a billionaire busybody against a billionaire bully.
The Kansas Department of Agriculture has agreed that a Kansas statute sharply limiting such advertising violates the First Amendment.
The bureau has a long history of escaping accountability for intrusive and abusive action.
A request under the name of Leonard Pozner -- the plaintiff in that case -- was submitted to Google, asking it to deindex these criticisms (which aren't themselves covered by the judgment).
Some interesting words from Justice Douglas.
Twitter CEO's connection to Bitcoin-friendly tools suggests more commitment to privacy than Facebook's Libra proposal.
An interesting analysis, handed down last month
Freedom could never be imposed at the point of a gun, but perhaps it could be sown by the spread of silicon and fiber. Or so I thought.
Tech bias, real or alleged, does not violate free speech rights.
As surely as winter follows fall, Republican election victories are followed by unconstitutional attempts to restrict political speech.
Senator can't even accurately represent a plan whose numbers don't remotely add up
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