Lawsuit Challenges Florida Lab-Grown Meat Ban
The ban was "enacted with the express purpose of insulating Florida agricultural businesses from innovative, out-of-state competition," according to the suit.
The ban was "enacted with the express purpose of insulating Florida agricultural businesses from innovative, out-of-state competition," according to the suit.
Officials ordered schools to review all courses with descriptions or syllabi that contain words such as Israel, Palestine, and Jewish.
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Defending the federal ban on gun possession by drug users, the government's lawyers seem increasingly desperate.
Even as he praises judicial decisions that made room for "dissenters" and protected "robust political debate," Tim Wu pushes sweeping rationales for censorship.
The state cut down private fruit trees and offered gift cards as compensation. It didn't solve the citrus canker problem.
It's a classic case of jawboning.
Paul Erlinger was sentenced to 15 years in prison based largely on a determination made by a judge—not a jury.
DeSantis' chief of staff used a personal phone to coordinate migrant flights to Martha's Vineyard. Now DeSantis' lawyers say those phone logs should be secret.
Laws letting teens work longer hours won't have the disastrous effects critics claim they will.
Numerous federal appeals courts have ruled that filming police is protected under the First Amendment, but police continue to illegally arrest people for it.
There may not be a perfect solution to ending homelessness, but there are some clear principles to reduce the friction for those working to do so.
The Sixth Amendment was originally seen as vital to preserving liberty. Yet it has been consistently watered down.
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Fortson, a 23-year-old active duty airman, was shot and killed by a Florida sheriff's deputy when he opened the door to his apartment holding a gun at his side.
Lab-grown meat bans don't protect consumers, but they do protect ranchers and farmers from competition.
Florida’s protectionist ban on the nascent industry sacrifices conservative principles in the name of a culture war that politicizes everything.
The areas where you need FAA approval to fly a model plane or drone are surprisingly large.
Filming cops is a First Amendment right, and there are already plenty of laws against harassing them.
While the governor framed the legislation as necessary to protect Floridians from "the global elite," he's the real authoritarian.
A New Jersey government watchdog said Street Cop Training instructors glorified violence, made discriminatory remarks, and offered unprofessional and unconstitutional advice to officers.
Once again, DeSantis is a guy who claims to love freedom—until he disagrees with the choices some adults make.
One man’s overgrown yard became a six-year struggle against overzealous code enforcement.
Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentence—including time they never spent incarcerated.
Ethan Blevins of the Pacific Legal Foundation explains why. I myself have made similar arguments.
The law makes it a misdemeanor to approach within 25 feet of a first responder after receiving a verbal warning to stay away.
Sandy Martinez faces that bill because of driveway cracks, a storm-damaged fence, and cars parked on her own property that illegally touched her lawn.
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The Univ. of Pennsylvania legal scholar makes the most thorough critique yet of this approach to justifying regulations that bar social media firms from engaging in most types of content moderation.
The law would require platforms to use invasive measures to prevent most teenagers under 16 from making social media accounts and bar all minors from sexually explicit sites.
A just-good-enough remake fails to live up to its predecessor.
Efforts to revamp the tourist hot spot ignore the reality for local business owners.
Even as they attack the Biden administration's crusade against "misinformation," Missouri and Louisiana defend legal restrictions on content moderation.
Employing an 18- to 20-year-old at an adult venue could mean 15 years in prison, even if the young person used a fake ID.
A law forcing kids off social media sites is still likely coming to Florida.
Rather than destruction of property, Wendell Goney was convicted of possession of a firearm as a felon.
The First Amendment restricts governments, not private platforms, and respects editorial rights.
Supreme Court arguments about two social media laws highlight a dangerous conflation of state and private action.
The Supreme Court seems inclined to recognize that content moderation is protected by the First Amendment.
The laws violate the First Amendment because they require social media sites to abjure most content moderation, and platform speech they disapprove of.
Both states are trying to force tech companies to platform certain sorts of speech.
A shaggy roadtrip comedy set against the backdrop of late 1990s right-wing family values politics fails to come together.
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Deputy Jesse Hernandez, whose bullets miraculously missed the handcuffed suspect in the car, resigned during an investigation that found he "violated policy."
"You need meat, OK? We're going to have meat in Florida," DeSantis said during a press conference.