So holds a federal district court.
An important First Amendment holding in a factually fascinating case, which involves an alleged breach of contract, a World War II Medal of Honor, a dispute over a history book, and a discussion of anti-libel injunctions.
People interested in government, and in editing, would have surely found it interesting.
But other courts in the Ninth Circuit have categorically said that such injunctions are unconstitutional—the law remains quite unclear.
An interesting procedural question raised by the Sixth Circuit's decision on worship services closures and the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The court concludes that it likely violates the Kentucky Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Free Exercise Clause, chiefly because the Governor's order has many exceptions for various allowed services.
Not a great thing to see in an appellate opinion, if you claimed that reviewing a court order shows that you should win.
"Even the most dedicated patent lawyer would have difficulty mustering 'hatred' for a computer user who inadvertently violated a patent."
We've filed a friend-of-the-court brief asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to review the case.
The court was applying a specific Virginia statute that limited the Governor's emergency powers as to guns.
The Eighth Circuit lawsuit remains pending.
A part-video / part-telephone conference happening this week -- watch or listen to them live or recorded, as you like.
So concluded the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Like many such orders, the Governor's order suspended until April 30 all "surgical and invasive procedures that are elective and non-urgent," which included abortions.
Reversible error, concludes a California appellate panel.
"Head-to-head [Daily Fantasy Sports] contests are predominately determined by the skill of the participants in using their knowledge of statistics and the relevant sport to select a fantasy team that will outperform the opponent."
And they would, I think, be peaceable assembly protected by the First Amendment, even in a time of epidemic.
But the ban might still be blocked as to women who are far enough along in their pregnancies that delaying an abortion would make it illegal.
She thinks she was -- but the police thought she wasn't (based on a negative test).
"Anything you can do, I can do meta."
... they apparently shed it well before the schoolhouse gate.
"but then you probably are making a judgment call that you need to let a judge make"—reasoning from a New Mexico trial court judge, recently reversed by an appellate court.
The subpoena had been issued on behalf of a criminal defendant, who wants to buttress his self-defense argument by getting a copy of an expired Instagram Story that had been sent to him by the alleged victim.
The Mississippi Court of Appeals just overturned the conviction, and struck down the underlying statute, which banned posting messages "whether truthful or untruthful" "for the purpose of causing injury to any person."
before UK independent press standards tribunal.
The common law, the First Amendment, and California court rules provide a broad right of access to court documents.
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