The ACLU's lawsuit is filed on behalf of a New York man whose application to stay in a Ronald McDonald House was denied because of his 12-year-old felony assault conviction.
given that the University rejected the Chancellor of the Board of Governors' call for the SJP chapter to be deactivated.
"The sole basis for targeting Joe was the race/ethnicity of his wife and her occupation" at an Asian massage parlor, the lawsuit claims.
Congress gave FISA’s Section 702 a brief lease on life, but civil liberties concerns haven’t gone away.
The appeals court dismissed a civil rights lawsuit by a Laredo gadfly who was arrested for asking questions.
Milei's swift action intended to transform Argentina's floundering economy provoked the country's biggest labor union to call tens of thousands to protest in Buenos Aires against his libertarian agenda.
Priscilla Villarreal, also known as "Lagordiloca," has sparked a debate about free speech and who, exactly, is a journalist.
at least under Washington law; the litigants had unsuccessfully sued to challenge disclosure of their sex offender records until the Washington Public Records Act.
A new white paper from the Canadian Pediatric Society recommends more unstructured play time for kids.
Laws like Utah's would require anyone using social media to prove their age through methods such as submitting biometric data or a government-issued ID.
The book Vote Gun criticizes the NRA’s rhetoric but pays little attention to gun control advocates' views.
The proposal seems to conflict with a Supreme Court ruling against laws that criminalize mere possession of obscene material.
The freedom to protest is essential to the American project. It also does not give you carte blanche to violate other laws.
An excellent piece in the N.Y. Times Magazine by Prof. Stephen Carter (Yale Law).
Opponents of pandemic restrictions had their day in court and won a victory for open dissent.
Kids were jailed for minor offenses, as detailed in The Kids of Rutherford County podcast.
“The safest course of action in terms of a possible violation of the NCO would be to refrain from writing or to be interviewed for articles that mention the name of the student with whom you have an NCO (or to retract them if that’s possible).”
Since leaving Houston, Art Acevedo has bounced from job to job, continuing a spotty career marred by scandal.
While not perfect, the move is a step in the right direction for civil liberties.
The N.H. Supreme Court reversed the order.
People who were disenfranchised based on felony convictions face a new obstacle to recovering their voting rights.
New Mexico law is more pro-defendant in such cases than the laws of many other states.
It's a frightening reminder of how far the government will go to get their way—and to warn tech companies against platforming speech it doesn't like.
His understanding of effective leadership and policing should repel anyone who cares about civil liberties and the rule of law.
Qualified immunity is a badly flawed doctrine the Supreme Court should abolish. But Trump's demands are much more extreme.
"Plaintiff is entitled ... to make his own judgment about whether disclosing his identity under seal to the Court would pose an inordinate risk to his personal safety. But he is not entitled ... to special dispensation from the well-established requirements of the law."
Your Face Belongs to Us documents how facial recognition might threaten our freedom.
Republican Presidential Nomination
Plus: Javier Milei’s powerful speech on economic prosperity in Davos
The former president argues that accountability is the enemy of effectiveness, both for cops and for politicians.
Is podcaster Coleman Hughes a state capacity libertarian?
He is asking the justices to reject the Colorado Supreme Court's conclusion that he is disqualified from running for president.
In an amicus brief filed in Murthy v. Missouri, they ignore basic tenets of First Amendment law in order to quash online speech they don't like.
Facial recognition technology is increasingly being deployed by police officers across the country, but the scope of its use has been hard to pin down.
even when he "adopted a controversial 'no punt' strategy."
Plus: Libertarian populism, library wars, Latin American soft power, and more...
The justices seem inclined to revise or ditch a 1984 precedent that requires deference to executive agencies' statutory interpretations.
"There has been a deliberate attempt to inflame the public against experts," warned one Davos panelist.
How identity politics and institutional cowardice have undermined the free speech on which our society relies.
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