I had asserted the contrary, arguing that the state allowance of pseudonymity in trying to get removal from the list didn't justify pseudonymity in a federal court lawsuit seeking damages for such placement; but the court disagreed.
Trump and his acolytes' conduct was indefensible, but the state's RICO law is overly broad and makes it too easy for prosecutors to bring charges.
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People may be able to successfully sue based on allegedly false and defamatory statements about themselves, or about very small groups of people that include themselves—but not based on statements about whole countries or ethnic groups.
It may be part of a larger reassessment of subjecting all areas of life to ideological tests.
Violators are rarely caught, while the unlucky few who face prosecution can go to prison for years.
(Part of the fees also stemmed from defending against Ohio State's investigating his alleged research misconduct.)
It was never a principled fight against special privileges granted to a private company.
Just published, closing out our symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Speech.
How Florida prison officials let a man's prostate cancer progress until he was paralyzed and terminally ill.
The District allowed "Black Lives Matter" protestors to violate the city's defacement ordinance, but enforced the law against groups with a different political message.
How cable TV transformed politics—and how politics transformed cable TV
Plus: A listener inquires about the potential positive effects of ranked-choice voting reforms.
Body camera footage shows that Delaware police cited Jonathan Guessford for flipping them off, even though they later agreed it was his right to do so
Plus: New Zealand libertarianism, Barbie economics, and more...
The only effective means of keeping tax collectors from misusing data is keeping it from them.
Profs. Peter Henderson, Tatsunori Hashimoto, and Mark Lemley, just published in our symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Speech; more articles from the symposium coming in the next few days.
Just published, in our symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Speech; more articles from the symposium coming in the next few days.
Just published, in our symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Speech; more articles from the symposium coming in the next few days.
A federal judge ruled in favor of an Idaho death-row inmate who says that the state is "psychologically torturing" him.
The decision casts further doubt on the constitutionality of a federal law that makes it a felony for illegal drug users to own firearms.
The decision supports the notion that victims are entitled to recourse when the state retaliates against people for their words. But that recourse is still not guaranteed.
"Is It a Platform? Is It a Search Engine? It's Chat GPT!," by Prof. Beatriz Botero Arcila, just published in our symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Speech; more articles from the symposium coming in the next few days.
by Prof Jon M. Garon, just published in our symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Speech; more articles from the symposium coming in the next few days.
by Prof. Nina Brown, just published in our symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Speech; more articles from the symposium coming in the next few days.
Better policing could solve the police-recruiting crisis.
The rapper is a Bernie Sanders supporter who speaks out about gun rights and free speech.
If Texas is right to argue that illegal immigration and cross-border drug smuggling qualify as "invasion," then the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended at any time - thereby enabling executive detention without trial.
Just published, in our symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Speech; more articles from the symposium coming in the next few days.
Plus: A warning about trigger warnings, Biden blocks uranium mining near Grand Canyon, and more...
"The material challenged in the plaintiff's complaint cannot be understood by a reasonable person as anything but substantially, if not literally, true."
Just published, in our symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Speech; more articles from the symposium coming in the next few days.
The plaintiffs in VanDerStok think that BATF's 2022 regulations defining certain gun-making kits as legally the same as guns overreached its constitutional authority.
An allegedly psychic "Internet sleuth" alleged a professor was involved in the University of Idaho student murders; the professor sued; then the "sleuth" countersued.
When it comes to conflicts with people engaged in unpopular or disfavored speech, too many journalists side with the feds.
The feds routinely abuse people’s rights and claim they shouldn’t be held accountable.
The Kids Online Safety Act imposes an amorphous "duty of care" that would compromise anonymous speech and restrict access to constitutionally protected content.
disclosure of an elementary school student's YouTube video watching history to the school, which was investigating him for supposed sexual harassment of teacher.
For now, doctors who end pregnancies when a woman’s life is at risk can still be prosecuted.
