The Supreme Court Said States Can't Discriminate in Alcohol Sales. They're Doing It Anyway.
Two decades after Granholm v. Heald was supposed to end protectionist shipping laws, states and lower courts continue to undermine the decision.
Two decades after Granholm v. Heald was supposed to end protectionist shipping laws, states and lower courts continue to undermine the decision.
For nearly three years, Daniel Horwitz faced contempt of court for talking about a private prison that was one of his most frequent courtroom opponents.
Microschools are giving educators the freedom to innovate. Regulators need to get out of the way.
Most courts have ruled that vanity license plates are private speech and protected from viewpoint discrimination under the First Amendment.
The settlement vindicates Kimberly Diei's First Amendment right to comment on sexually explicit rap songs without suffering government retaliation.
Courts block laws regulating algorithms and online porn.
Daniel Horwitz often represents people illegally silenced by the government. This time he says a court violated his First Amendment rights when it gagged him from publicly speaking about a troubled state prison.
The fifth-grader was punished as part of a law that requires students who make threats of "mass violence" be expelled for at least a year.
But 11 states still forbid wine from being sold in grocery stores anyway.
Selling sex while HIV-positive will still be a felony.
The town of Lakeland will have to refund Julie Pereira $688 in fines and fees and pay her $1 in nominal damages for violating her First Amendment rights.
The Ben Kredich Act, named for a young man killed by an allegedly impaired motorist, overcorrects in response to a tragic incident.
Mollie and Michael Slaybaugh are reportedly out over $70,000. The government says it is immune.
The three-judge panel concluded unanimously that while the state law at issue is constitutional, the wildlife agents' application of it was not.
Private unions have every right to exist, but that doesn't mean they're actually beneficial on net.
Lee announced in 2021 that he was fast-tracking clemency petitions for inmates serving mandatory minimums that had since been repealed. Earlier this year, he scrapped the program with applications still pending.
While the deputy's death is tragic, all evidence indicates that the woman handcuffed in his back seat died as a result of his negligence.
People who were disenfranchised based on felony convictions face a new obstacle to recovering their voting rights.
An investigation from ProPublica shows that one Knoxville-area facility is putting kids in solitary but skirting scrutiny by classifying the seclusion as "voluntary."
Joshua Garton spent nearly two weeks in jail for "manufacturing and disseminating a harassing photograph on social media." A First Amendment lawsuit quickly followed.
When a bystander offered to give the officers flotation devices and a small boat, they refused.
Schools don't get to censor nondisruptive off-campus speech.
Government officials have neither the right nor the credibility to stand in the way.
Plus: A listener question considers the pros and cons of the libertarian focus on political processes rather than political results.
Plus: Librarians take on Arkansas book restrictions, another migrant stunt may have originated in Florida, and more...
Plus: Court sides with journalists sued by LAPD, don't ban private employers from requiring college degrees, and more...
Taxpayers are on the hook for $1.26 billion for a new stadium in Nashville.
Decentralizing power is better than trying to jam one vision down the throats of the unwilling.
Plus: The editors respond to a listener question concerning corporate personhood.
The state promised Ford nearly $900 million in incentives, including new and upgraded roads. But it chose to run that new road through a number of black-owned farms.
New bills in six states showcase some right and wrong ways to help sex workers, from full decriminalization to ramping up penalties for prostitution customers.
"Then my baby started crying so I reached for my son, and as I'm reaching, a man held me and told me, 'Don't touch him. He's getting taken away from you,'" said the children's mother.
Convincing law enforcement officers that those who do wrong will suffer consequences is by far the most powerful tool for changing police behavior in the long run.
It’s already illegal to expose minors to obscenity, so what is this bill really for?
Let's start by doing away with the idea that officers are engaged in a war for our streets rather than involved in a civilian operation that requires community support and trust.
In his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Joe Biden said that he wants to hold police "accountable." But he neglected to mention the elephant in the room.
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