Under N.Y. law, "punitive damages shall not be awarded" when the defendant is dead; that's also the general rule throughout the country.
They're a consistent force of organized resistance to calmer, safer, less aggressive policing.
This court-invented doctrine shields bad cops from civil liability.
There were four times as many incidents of physical restraint against students the year after Florida doubled the number of police in its schools.
The Kentucky Derby, phone tapping, and asylum.
Why do progressives who worry about unequal justice support policies that are bound to make that problem worse?
Many alleged perpetrators, no actual victims.
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For the moment, the executive "memorandum" is long on rhetoric, but short on actual action. If it ever does lead to action, it could be yet another attack on federalism and separation of powers.
Will casebooks need to expurgate a passage from the famous Youngstown concurrence?
Another example of how police can respond poorly to drug and mental health calls
"My vision is nothing short of establishing George Mason University as a national exemplar of anti-racism and inclusive excellence in action."
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Reason asked writers who have been on the criminal justice beat for years to lay out serious proposals for reforms with a fighting chance of being implemented.
Can Scalia Law School and the Economics Department declare independence from GMU?
Excessive force is certainly an issue. So is overcriminalization.
Law enforcement lobby holds off bill that would decertify officers who are guilty of misconduct.
Harsh occupational license rules locked them out, except when they were locked up. A new bill just passed to change the rules.
The president's daughter says "we’re just getting started." Some details would be nice.
The Director of CDC "may take such measures to prevent such spread of the diseases as he/she deems reasonably necessary."
The statute, which upgraded threatening or intimidating from a misdemeanor to a felony "if the defendant is a criminal street gang member" (regardless of whether the crime is connected to gang membership), the court held, violates substantive due process.
(Note the citation to, among others, our own Randy Barnett.)
Different factions in Portland react to a death in the streets.
The lawsuit argues that the DEA is violating the Fourth Amendment by seizing money from travelers without evidence of criminal activity.
DCFaces establishes five grounds for cancellation. No one will survive the purges.
Leaked police documents show how U.S. counterterrorism agencies spread myths and panic about fentanyl.
These policies will institutionalize viewpoint discrimination: only one perspective on a given issue is permissible. In the long run, academic freedom and open discourse will suffer.
A list of my upcoming online speaking engagements on various law and public policy issues. I am "open for business" for additional talks, too.
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"[One day, t]he Bar Bureaucracy will have to answer for a medieval approach to mental health that is as cruel as it is counterproductive."
The Reason Roundtable spits fire at street violence, poison politics, and the nationalization of every local story.
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Two years after commuting her life sentence, the president has pardoned Alice Marie Johnson.
Even the most police-skeptical courts grant the doctrine in egregious circumstances.
He did not overpromise, and he had the good sense to stop talking about a country beset by violence when he ran for a second term.
The infection and death rates have surpassed those of the general population.
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