Government Watchdog Calls Out Dangers in Section 702 Surveillance
A divided board recommends reforms as Congress debates renewing snooping authority.
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...
Daraius Dubash was arrested for peacefully protesting in a public park.
The judge ruled that drag performances are not inherently expressive and that schools could regulate "vulgar and lewd" conduct.
The U.S.-Bahraini security pact is the first step towards a future U.S.-Saudi “mega-deal.” Critics say it violates the U.S. Constitution and aids torturers.
The former president is right to worry that supporting restrictions on abortion could hurt him in the general election.
Plus: Rupert Murdoch retires, Ibram X. Kendi blew through millions of dollars, and more…
you argue that you're losing job opportunities because employers see that decision.
Yoel Roth worries about government meddling in content moderation, except when Democrats target "misinformation."
The governor's attempt to rule by decree provoked widespread condemnation instead of the applause she was expecting.
"There is evidence that, by opting to portray Fairstein as the series villain who was intended to embody the perceived injustices of a broader system, defendants reverse-engineered plot points to attribute actions, responsibilities and viewpoints to Fairstein that were not hers and are unsupported in defendants' substantial body of research materials."
"Doesn't matter," says the officer. "She's still making porn."
After the student paper pressed university officials for interviews, its faculty adviser got into trouble.
Shielding children from “harm” shouldn’t come at the expense of speech protected by the First Amendment.
And the case in which the student made such a claim can't be sealed, either.
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