Westbrook and the Jazz characterized the fan's insults to Westbrook as racist; in context, the court concluded, these were constitutionally protected statements of opinion.
Letting state officials determine whether a candidate has "engaged in insurrection" opens a huge can of worms.
Colorado, North Dakota, probably Montana, and maybe New York.
And some good news, after all.
Police have set bounties on 13 activists, some living in the U.S.
New anti-drag laws were deemed unconstitutional in every state where they were challenged this year.
William D. Eggers discusses what he's learned about making the government less intrusive.
The year's highlights in blame shifting.
A rare federal court decision denying Younger abstention.
(Note that the court dealt with a professional licensing board's threat of punishment for such engineers; it doesn't deal with the separate question whether a government body may refuse to accept testimony from an unlicensed expert.)
And there's still time left in 2023, the way things are going lately in New York.
The trial judge concluded the Tweet was “harassment by defamation.”
Police officers already are routinely indemnified, and suing them for abuse is much harder than Trump claims.
Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.
A reined-in TSA would be the sound of music to many Americans' ears.
“The victims may not have been persecuted or tortured due to the data breach yet, but the likelihood of those outcomes has increased due to ICE’s conduct.”
The district court just dismissed certain procedural objections to them, though it wasn't asked to consider the substantive arguments.
the Ninth Circuit rules, though expressly noting that "The question whether the Nevermind album cover meets the definition of child pornography is not at issue in this appeal."
recommends a Magistrate Judge, in a case brought over defendant student organization chair's claims that plaintiff had engaged in "sever[e], consisten[t], and widespread" misbehavior.
The Colorado Supreme Court's reasoning in deciding that Trump is constitutionally disqualified from running for president seems iffy.
Stella Assange discusses the imprisonment of her husband on the third episode of Just Asking Questions.
Law enforcement officials appear to have tarred ad hoc bands of protesters as members of an organized criminal movement.
The flip side of what happened with defendant-side discovery misconduct in the Rudy Giuliani and Alex Jones cases, though with much smaller stakes.
Some Substack writers are pressuring the platform to change its moderation policies. Others are urging Substack not to listen.
Bans on standard magazines benefit criminals and endanger victims
Libertarian History/Philosophy
The biographer of the Nobel laureate says he made us "free to choose" in areas far beyond economics.
Milei's critics have argued the government's measures are a "criminalization of the right to protest," but a closer look shows that those concerns are somewhat exaggerated.
His mom is rejecting the prosecutors' absurdly strict probation rules.
Judges can sentence defendants for charges they were acquitted of by a jury, a practice that troubles criminal justice advocates, civil liberties groups, and several Supreme Court justices.
An error-prone investigation in search of a fugitive led police to Amy Hadley's house.
Plus: The fertility crisis, the origins of Israel, El Segundo's tech scene, and more...
The former Trump lawyer could have avoided a massive defamation verdict by presenting his "definitively clear" evidence of election fraud.
According to an analysis from the Associated Press, 50,000 children in 22 states were still missing from schools in fall 2022.
I focus on the Washington Supreme Court's flawed decision holding an eviction moratorium is not a taking of private property.
Plus: Houthi attack, Milei misinformation, Instagram rooster eugenics, and more...
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