Don Lichterman was convicted of forgery; I wrote about it. Someone using his name tried to get Google to vanish my article; I wrote about that. Now someone is trying to get Google to vanish that later article -- and to vanish online court records that refer to Mr. Lichterman's case.
A police official said "manner in which the phrase had been spoken was key ... and added police officers would have acted in the same way if someone had run around a local square swearing loudly"; but the man denies he was shouting.
Big publishers want new sources of revenue. But trying to force license fees for linking will backfire.
Gun buyers, gay lovers, cannabis customers, and Yelp users are just a few of the groups that benefit from this federal law.
Facts vs. opinions; compensatory/presumed/punitive damages; negligence, recklessness, and knowledge; libel per se; timing; choice of law; and more defamation law fun.
The anatomy of two unfounded deindexing requests.
Behold HB 2444, which would have required a $20 fee to remove pre-installed porn filters on devices that connect to the internet.
Plus: FDA greenlights new 23andMe test, Kamala Harris gets the Onion treatment, and nobody likes Trump's new shutdown salve.
The conservative justices listed a key factor preventing them from hearing the case.
Covingtongate, Buzzfeed's bomb, Baby Hitler, Kamalamentum…maybe it's time to pull the plug.
In first Supreme Court Second Amendment case since 2010, Court must decide whether the right applies in any meaningful sense outside the home.
Plus: Kamala Harris officially enters the 2020 race and Google News may leave the E.U.
The claim stemmed from the Times' published statements "questioning the accuracy of a blog post plaintiff wrote for The Times," and the Times' decision not to publish more work from Rall.
"We shouldn't have to think about self-censoring what we say online."
Five-round magazines and background checks for ammo purchases
Yes, the paranoid lunatic is a mega-troll, but the beauty of new media means never having to engage stuff you find awful or offensive.
Shouldn't he be avoiding most of the whole state of Washington?
What happens if a commercial speech licensing scheme is on hold -- and thus the speakers can't speak -- because of the federal government shutdown?
The much-anticipated reargument of this important property rights case did not make clear what the Court will do, but overall did not go as well for the property rights side as the first argument did. It is still unclear, however, which way potentially crucial swing voter Justice Kavanaugh will lean.
Compelled use of facial and finger recognition features runs afoul of the Fifth Amendment.
The category is defined by politicians, who focus on looks rather than function.
But the decision seems wrong as a matter of federal constitutional law, because the law regulates only local governments -- and local governments lack any federal constitutional rights against their states.
Among other things, it would call for investigators to review three years' worth of a would-be gun buyer's social media postings for "excessive discriminatory content."
Your new national ID is hacker-bait that complicates journeys but won't make you any safer.
Come from England or Japan for a short visit? Feel free to shoot at a range! Return on a student visa? Federal felony for you (and friends who take you) if you go shooting. Unless, of course, you've gotten a hunting license -- even if the range visit is completely unrelated to the hunting.
I'm trying to get access to the papers in an Orange County (Florida) case in which someone got a a restraining order that he is using to try to get online criticism deindexed by Google.
Blame normal TSA incompetence, not the government shutdown, for allowing a passenger to smuggle a firearm through security.
The former Attorney General has made it much for difficult for the DOJ to crack down on police departments accused of civil rights violations.
An interesting opinion from an Illinois appellate judge, arguing against the Illinois rule under which it's a crime to possess a gun with a defaced serial number even if one has no reason to know that it's defaced.
Federal law bans felons, illegal aliens, and others from knowingly possessing guns (or ammunition); does the government also have to show that the defendant knew he was a felon, illegal alien, or within some other prohibited category? [UPDATE: Last paragraph corrected.]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's latest bill classifies firearms not by what they do but based on how they look.
Congressional Democrats want to put more cameras and sensors on private property.
The latest version of the senator's "assault weapon" ban targets products that highlight the irrationality of "assault weapon" bans.
It's "important to be clear about how rare this behavior is on social platforms," researchers say.
The policy is very popular and a top priority for House Democrats, but it would hurt innocent people without doing much to improve public safety.
What to expect at LibertyCon, the annual meeting of the largest libertarian student group on the planet (plus how to get 40 percent off registration).
The Cato Institute and Institute for Justice team up to fight for the right to publish a book attacking behavior by the SEC.
Other circuit courts have reached the same result, though not all have used the same reasoning.
Only if you like the cause they serve, according to supporters of laws that target the anti-Israel BDS movement
Author and sex worker Maggie McNeill was suspended from Twitter Tuesday for a hyperbolic comment about burning the White House down.
Universities must allow students to cross-examine accusers and witnesses, the ruling states.
On Monday, a federal appeals court considered Grindr's guilt in a case involving app-based impersonators.
Control freaks have turned to dishonest rulemaking and outright censorship in doomed but still dangerous efforts to take people's weapons away.
Plus: The TSA mask is slipping and government shutdown goes on.
The President's recent threat to use "the military version of eminent domain" to seize property for his border wall is just the tip of a larger iceberg of policies and legal positions inimical to constitutional property rights.
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