Police 'Body Slammed' Him. Now, He's Getting a $500,000 Settlement.
Police claimed Mack Nelson fell while resisting an officer. A video proved them wrong.
Police claimed Mack Nelson fell while resisting an officer. A video proved them wrong.
SeanPaul Reyes has been arrested and threatened by NYPD for filming in public places, including inside police precincts. He says that's a violation of his First Amendment rights.
The ruling draws back the veil on routine police practices that victimize innocent drivers.
Horrible things are happening to vulnerable people, but we cannot help them by sending groups of vigilantes or law enforcement officers to hunt them.
A recent House committee investigation exposed political interference when it came to figuring out the origins of COVID. But why?
DeSantis talks a lot about freedom but increasingly only applies it to those who agree with him.
Appeals in the January 6 cases raise serious questions about how broadly the statute should be applied.
Blame university administrators.
"There is an inherent inequality in allowing an accuser to proceed pseudonymously while the defendant is forced to defend himself publicly."
Plus: Twitter subpoenas Elizabeth Warren's communications with the SEC, mortgage rates are starting to fall, and more...
Damien Smith claims in a new lawsuit that police racially profiled him and violated his First, Fourth, and 14th Amendment rights.
The Third Circuit holds that, once the government released the documents, it couldn't then forbid the grandmother (or others) from publishing them.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Eastern for a discussion with Matt Ridley of new documents that reveal how and why scientists downplayed the possibility of a COVID lab leak scenario.
He'd be a stronger candidate if he applied that thinking to situations that don't involve former President Donald Trump.
An illustration that courts are often willing to reconsider stipulated sealing and pseudonymization decisions when members of the public or media object.
Plus: Iowa court halts 6-week abortion ban, income inequality is shrinking, and more…
can go forward, rules a federal judge, denying Cleveland State University's motion to dismiss.
A critical column by Jamelle Bouie prompts an extensive reply from Peter Canellos.
Eager for the adulation of Trump supporters, the former Fox News host suggests that rigged election software delivered a phony victory to Joe Biden.
Plus: GOP candidate defends “limited role of government” in parental decisions for transgender kids, some common sense about Diet Coke and cancer, and more…
A recently published statistical analysis of homicide rates in New York City finds strong support for the hypothesis that de-policing resulting from the George Floyd protests caused the 2020 homicide spikes.
A federal judge says the ATF can’t arbitrarily classify inert objects as gun parts.
One thing is clear about Missouri v. Biden: The decision cannot be understood by viewing it through a polarized lens.
A federal court rejects plaintiff's arguments "that sealing ... is required because she is being 'slandered and libeled' and '[m]aking [her] information public would magnify the effects of [defendants'] wrongdoing' rather than right those wrongs."
Journalism is an activity shielded by the First Amendment, not a special class or profession.
Third Circuit briefing is ongoing in challenge to rifle ban signed into law just a week after Bruen.
The 11th Circuit rejected Sosa's constitutional claims, and he is asking the Supreme Court to intervene.
The reauthorization of Section 702 is one of the most important issues facing Congress in the second half of this year.
"Disinformation" researchers alarmed by the injunction against government meddling with social media content admire legal regimes that allow broad speech restrictions.
Abortion and privacy activists join over concerns that cell phones track our movements.
The response to the decision illustrates the alarming erosion of bipartisan support for the First Amendment.
Plus: Montanans challenge ban on drag story hour, Arizona approves birth control without a prescription, and more...
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