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.
Clark Neily's excellent proposal for addressing small, but troubling politice violations of constitutional rights.
Just in case you had any doubts about that.
Now that's being tough on crime.
Walter Block and Kerry Baldwin debate whether women should have the legal right to terminate their pregnancies.
Plus: Christianity Today rejects Trump, retirement savings restrictions loosened, Nigerian sex work decriminalized, and more...
More on Doe v. Mckesson, the Baton Rouge Black Lives Matter case.
Walter Block and Kerry Baldwin debate whether pregnant women should have the legal right to evict a fetus.
the Baton Rouge Black Lives Matter case (in which Judge Don Willett has just switched to dissenting, and in which a cert. petition has been filed with the U.S. Supreme Court).
The case, in which Judge Don Willett has just switched to dissenting, should be an easy win for DeRay Mckesson—but on a theory that hadn't been asserted in court.
Her lobbying tax proposal is pseudo-policy, a veneer of wonky seriousness over dubious populist dogma.
"Steve Farzam, chief operating officer of the Shore Hotel [in Santa Monica], ... [has] been charged with counterfeiting a Los Angeles County Superior Court seal."
A judge rules whistleblower’s failure to subject Permanent Record to pre-publication review violates non-disclosure agreement.
The decision is significant in itself and has important implications for other cases where the government deliberately damages private property in the process of coping with natural disasters.
Judge demands to know what the agency will do prevent future “omissions” in the applications.
A Montgomery County, Maryland, ordinance authorizes impoundment and misdemeanor charges for cyclists who lack the requisite sticker.
The case for a technical free speech fix
A new paper raises constitutional questions about expansive state-level regulations that reach beyond their borders.
In the middle of a scandal over FISA surveillance, leaders want still more power to snoop on your secret stuff.
This latest social media freakout has prompted a formal military investigation.
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