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A legal fight over the Arctic grayling shows how regs can hurt rather than help.
A legal fight over the Arctic grayling shows how regs can hurt rather than help.
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According to the suit, the officer "acted with malice or in reckless disregard of Jane Doe's federally protected rights."
Now a judge has cleared him of wrongdoing and struck down the rule used to justify the arrest.
"My intention is to ensure that all Americans from the wealthiest millionaire to the poorest homeless person can exercise these rights without fear of consequence from our government," said Jeff Gray.
"Everybody should have an expectation that they can put a sign in their yard and speak on a certain topic," a lawyer for the couple said.
The state's "arbitrary requirement to house all male death row prisoners in permanent solitary confinement does not promote safety and security, is inconsistent with correctional best practices, and serves no penological purpose," the lawsuit claims.
"The Town has routinely detained, cited, and forced Mr. Brunet to go to trial to vindicate his constitutional rights, taking the extraordinary step of adopting a boldly unconstitutional local Ordinance to silence him," the complaint reads.
"Sometimes I even feel like they wanted me in there, because I was in there so long," said one 18-year-old who was wrongfully incarcerated for 166 days.
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"Hamline subjected López Prater to the foregoing adverse actions because . . . she did not conform her conduct to the specific beliefs of a Muslim sect," the lawsuit states.
It's hard to believe its arguments will hold up in court.
On Thursday, the South Carolina Supreme Court began hearing arguments in a case that could see the state's attempt to execute inmates by electrocution or firing squad declared unconstitutional.
Defendants say this practice violates the state’s own laws. The attorney general is pushing onward anyway.
Irvington made national headlines last year when it filed a lawsuit against an 82-year-old woman for filing too many public records requests. Now it says a lawyer for FIRE should be prosecuted.
Officers piled on top of a cuffed Akeem Terrell after he was arrested for acting erratically at a party, and later found him pulseless and facedown in an isolation cell.
Zion’s attempts to push out unwanted renters collides with Fourth Amendment protections.
Nearly a century after author Arthur Conan Doyle's death, the character is finally free.
The governor and attorney general say they’ll appeal to the state Supreme Court.
The weird judge-invented "commercial speech" exception to our right to free expression breeds strange results in suit against distributors of the 2019 movie Yesterday.
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Golden State lawmakers have refused to fix the California Environmental Quality Act. Now it could cost them a brand new office building.
The lawsuit alleges that TikTok's algorithm funnels inappropriate content directly to teens. That not only defies logic, but it is also antithetical to how a social media platform keeps users.
"The state of New York can't turn bloggers into Big Brother, but it's trying to do just that," said FIRE attorney Daniel Ortner.
The cop who killed Shaver was fired. But he will receive a disability pension for the rest of his life because he claims he has post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Monique Owens shouted over critical speakers at a September city council meeting, claiming it was her "First Amendment right."
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According to the ruling, the Pima County Board of Supervisors violated the state constitution's Gift Clause with its sweetheart deal to a space tourism company.
Unfortunately, in five separate cases today, they're outnumbered.
In a post-FOSTA world, Section 230 still protects websites from lawsuits over criminal sexual conduct by their users.
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The Institute for Justice argues evidence from warrantless searches can’t be used for zoning enforcement.
In his dismissal order, the judge cited Section 230, the law protecting websites from liability for user-generated content.
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A handful of law firms are behind a spike in class-action lawsuits claiming consumers are harmed by opaque, half-full macaroni boxes and "all natural" fiber supplements.
The lawsuit contends that after passengers are screened at federally mandated security checkpoints, Clayton County police search them again before they can board their flight.
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Does Section 230 shield YouTube from lawsuits about recommendations? Can Twitter be forced to pay damages over the terrorists it hasn’t banned?
The case is now on appeal after a lower court said the ban on websites promoting prostitution didn't concern protected speech.
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