The case stemmed from user challenges asking that a public library remove Gender Queer: A Memoir, or at least keep children from getting it.
Kids will grow up to value freedom only if they’re raised in an environment where it’s treated as good.
"Respondent presented this court with a credible and reasonable interpretation of the meaning behind her words, i.e., that she posted the above-noted tweets as an expression of her anger, fear, and frustration with the violence taking place around her and in disagreement with some of the sentiments she saw being expressed by others on Twitter."
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The decision is another rebuke to states that have imposed broad, location-specific limits on the right to bear arms.
Critics have argued the legal action is a meritless SLAPP suit.
A zombie law, thrown out in court, continues to wreak havoc because it’s referenced in a contract.
If Facebook et al. are pushing a "radical leftist narrative," why don’t they have a constitutional right to do that?
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel has initiated a new rulemaking that would enact what are largely the same net neutrality rules tried back in 2016.
Plus: Donald Trump's creative accounting, those sneaky vegans, brain drain, and more...
Plus: A listener asks the editors to weigh in on a hypothetical executive order to establish an American Climate Corps.
"The police are free to ask questions, and the public is free to ignore them," wrote a federal judge.
A divided board recommends reforms as Congress debates renewing snooping authority.
After a divided ruling, laws limiting such treatments in Tennessee and Kentucky will go into force.
The case will consider whether the government is exempt from takings liability for imposing exactions as a condition of development rights in situations where the exaction is imposed by legislation. Unlike many Supreme Court cases, this one can be resolved very easily by applying a basic principle of constitutional law.
The laws require major social media platforms to host content they disapprove of for substantive reasons.
The badly flawed lower court ruling defies the Supreme Court's landmark 2019 decision forbidding such Catch-22 traps, and threatens the property rights of large numbers of people.
The late California senator always seemed to err on the side of more government power and less individual freedom.
"Defendants' argument, which attempts to draw an ill-defined connection between a lawful gun raffle hosted on social media, and obviously tragic and unlawful mass shootings at schools, remains predicated upon numerous, dubious inferences ...—if not upon rank speculation."
"[E]ccentricity and being off-putting is not a criminal offense," even when the speaker mentions the listener's children and other personal details.
More than 1 in 3 Florida foster kids over 13 is taking psychotropic medications, but the state often doesn't follow rules requiring it to keep records of prescriptions.
The trial—and, in some sense, Timpa's life—was about transparency.
The judge ruled that the law was unconstitutionally overbroad, vague, and viewpoint discrimination.
No place is truly safe for dissidents when governments see no limits to their authority.
Before correcting the record, the former president's spokesman inadvertently implicated him in a federal crime.
Reason reported in 2021 how prisons use cheap field kits to test mail for contraband—and use the faulty, unconfirmed results to severely punish inmates.
[UPDATE: Don't blog when tired or in a hurry! I regret to say the original post erroneously said the Fifth Circuit granted rehearing en banc -- the panel just granted panel rehearing, and I've corrected the post accordingly. My apologies for the error.]
"Plaintiff states that he was not aware that his complaint would be made public, and he suggests that, under Korean law, the personal information of litigants is not made public." But "[w]hether or not he intended to do so, by initiating this action in a United States District Court, Plaintiff has made his name a matter of public record."
The parent's comments at a school board meeting led to a "no trespass notice" that blocked him from school district premises (apparently including his children's school).
"There is no American tradition of limiting ammunition capacity," U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez says, calling the state's cap "arbitrary," "capricious," and "extreme."
A Republican, a Communist, and a Catholic conservative walk onto a movie set...
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