Don't Bring Back COVID Authoritarianism
People should be free to choose how cautious to be. Mask mandates, lockdowns, and closing schools won't stop the virus.
People should be free to choose how cautious to be. Mask mandates, lockdowns, and closing schools won't stop the virus.
A federal judge compared Waylon Bailey’s Facebook jest to "falsely shouting fire in a theatre."
"The Gadsden flag is a proud symbol of the American revolution," says Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.
The lawyer's true superpower is to turn every case into a case about procedure.
Conservative legal scholar William Hodes argues that federal restrictions on abortion are beyond the scope of Congressional power.
The state has filed a motion to set an execution date for Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived a previous execution attempt.
What counts as an "artistic work" for purposes of special protection under the Texas anti-SLAPP statute?
It's hard to argue that providing a pipe constitutes a speech act.
"This appeal raises a question not yet addressed by any California court: whether a public official may be bribed with a promise to donate to the official's office."
Plus: A listener question about the continued absurdity of sports stadium subsidies
Porn sites and other online spaces with adult content are fun; they’re also important sources of community and information.
The appeals court ruled that a Facebook post alluding to World War Z was clearly protected by the First Amendment.
Is our country getting closer to living out the true meaning of its creed, "All men are created equal"?
Only when necessary to protect five basic internet rights.
"[T]he Government argue[d] that when considering that the charged offenses occurred after the acquittal, the [appellant's] tactics were emboldened and this factor weighs in favor of admissibility."
Banks routinely snitch on customers and even deny services to people politicians don’t like.
Court finds parent's right to comment on their interactions with their child's coaches or teachers is cleartly established.
"This is literally a playground that's for 2- to 5-year-olds," says former preschool teacher Katie Courtney.
The sorority, the court held, had a First Amendment freedom of expressive association right to choose which students to admit (logic that suggests that a sorority would equally be free to exclude transgender members).
The hospital baselessly claimed the teenager's mother wrote the petition after she was fired without cause.
The paper worries that "social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against political misinformation."
Section 230, the court says, immunizes good-faith attempts to block spam—and RNC didn't introduce enough evidence of bad faith.
The post led to the author being arrested for "terrorizing"; so clearly unconstitutional that the police officer lacks qualified immunity, says the Fifth Circuit.
Plus: FIRE fights college's vague "greater good" policy, Biden administration pushes double talk on tariffs, and more...
"Applicant's warning of a prima facie violation of Japanese law's privacy protections fails to constitute a harm severe enough" to justify pseudonymity.
The Government drops reference to the slave codes as a historical analogue in Rahimi.
Mug shots are not taken to humiliate a defendant before they've been convicted. But that's the purpose they widely serve now.
The motion allows early dismissal of a lawsuit, here the lawsuit that aimed to block UC Irvine from responding to a public records request from the Center for Scientific Integrity (the Retraction Watch people).
So a court concludes in a case brought by presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Plus: Invade Mexico?!, "Trump added $8 trillion to our debt," and more...
Like other features of legal procedure—such as the jury trial, the mechanism for appointing judges, the availability of appeal—pseudonymity both deeply affects the fairness of litigation and, often, the substantive outcomes.
“The whole woke movement, it’s obviously an echo of those times.”
The next presidential election may be between the two men. Can't we do better?
Plaintiffs sued for defamation, and also for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress stemming from the comments aroused by Baldwin's posts.
The government gets to pick and choose which speech it displays on its property, and doesn't have to give others a right to reply (except in public fora, which don't include school walls).
Plus: Americans vote too much, Indiana abortion ban to take effect, and more...
Defendant had accused plaintiffs, "the King and Queen of [the Pittsburgh] Renaissance Faire," of failing to properly deal with allegations of sexual harassment, and of retaliating against sexual harassment victims; the jury found that the defendant knew the statements were false, or at least recklessly disregarded the risk of falsehood.
While chalking on D.C. sidewalks and streets is illegal, the protesters say they were targeted for their beliefs.
Do you care about free minds and free markets? Sign up to get the biggest stories from Reason in your inbox every afternoon.
This modal will close in 10