Dewonna Goodridge quickly discovered that Kansas civil asset forfeiture laws were stacked against her when sheriff's deputies seized her truck.
The Turkish government tried to hand over a mayorship to someone who only got 27 percent of the vote. Residents just weren’t having it.
The case raises an important issue about what qualifies as a "pretextual" taking. It's a rare takings issue on which I don't have a clear position.
The anime Mashle: Magic and Muscles offers an absurdist metaphor for politically driven discrimination.
Concerns about public safety will eventually recede, but Big Brother will still be watching.
Michael Garrett and other Texas inmates get less than four hours of sleep a night. He argues it's cruel and unusual punishment.
The final article posted from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
The eleventh of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
Last year, the offices of the Marion County Record were raided by police. A new lawsuit claims the search was illegal retaliation against the paper.
From struggle sessions to cancel culture, the story depicts the terrors of surveillance authoritarianism.
The civil liberties lawyer talks to Reason about the misguided impulse to attack free speech in the name of protecting women.
Plus: IDF scandal, Latin America's "small penis club," Havana syndrome, and more...
The tenth of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
The ninth of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
In interview with Joe Selvaggi of the Pioneer Institute, I explain the harm caused by exclusionary zoning, and why it violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
If doctors cannot sue the FDA for failing to restrict pharmaceuticals or other products, can anyone else? And if not, is this a problem?
The eighth of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
"You just can't raise kids like that anymore—it isn't safe," the cops told the Widner family.
Plus: Mnuchin's TikTok folly, Trump's April Fools' joke, Andy Warhol's muse, and more...
The Univ. of Pennsylvania legal scholar makes the most thorough critique yet of this approach to justifying regulations that bar social media firms from engaging in most types of content moderation.
The seventh of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
Procedure about procedure about procedure.
The Turkish opposition ran circles around President Recep Tayyib Erdogan's party in local elections. It could be the beginning of the end of his 20-year reign.
"There were many of us who opposed censoring pornography...precisely because of our commitment to feminist goals and principles," says the former ACLU chief.
The sixth of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
Plus: Illegal homes in California, Erdogan's party does poorly in local elections, and more...
"To the extent that Kavadia asks the Court to order that public reporting about this case be removed from the Internet, such an order would blatantly violate the First Amendment."
The fifth of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
The third of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
The third of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
But lawsuits for libeling the government do not "have any place in the American system of jurisprudence."
"It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will," he claimed.
Plus: Gun detection in the subway system, Toronto's rainwater tax, goat wet nurses, and more...
I'm against it, whomever it's coming from.
The first of twelve articles from the Knight Institute’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium.
But plaintiff's claim that he was retaliated against for raising religious objections to the training, and discriminated against based on religion as to promotion, can go forward.
