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Brief Challenging Texas Restriction on "Sexual Gesticulations Using Accessories or Prosthetics That Exaggerate … Sexual Characteristics"
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amI was delighted to sign on to this amicus brief supporting the challenge to Texas's S.B. 12 (Woodlands Pride, Inc. v. Paxton (5th Cir.)), which was filed on behalf of Prof. Dale Carpenter (SMU), Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley), the Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic at Vanderbilt Law School, and me. Here's a summary of the Texas statute,…
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After Iowa Police Ignored Her Pleas for Help, Her Estranged Husband Killed Her
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amAngela Prichard was murdered after Bellevue police officers repeatedly refused to enforce a restraining order against her abusive husband.
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Worst 4/20 Ever
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amPlus: A listener asks the editors to steel man the case for the Jones Act, an antiquated law that regulates maritime commerce in U.S. waters.
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"Despite Police Pushback, Biden Presses On With Visit To Syracuse After Two Cops Were Just Slain"
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amFrom the Daily Caller: Biden is set to travel to the city on Thursday to promote the CHIPS and Science Act and announce a grant delivered by the legislation, according to CNY Central News. The president opted not to delay the trip following the loss Syracuse Police Officer Michael Jensen and Onondaga County Lt. Sheriff's Deputy Michael…
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Combat Homelessness by Ending Exclusionary Zoning
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amThe Eighth Amendment provides little, if any, protection for the homeless. But courts can help them by striking down exclusionary zoning, which is the major cause of housing shortages that lead to homelessness.
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Equity Isn't Venti for the Government
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amTomorrow the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Starbucks Corp. v. McKinney. Read more in this piece at ScotusBlog by Ronald Mann. The question concerns the standard for injunctions sought by the NLRB. Here is a note from the forthcoming edition of Ames, Chafee, and Re on Remedies, my casebook with Emily Sherwin: NOTE ON…
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Brickbat: 'Openly Jewish'
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amLondon's Metropolitan Police Service has apologized for threatening to arrest a Jewish man at a pro-Palestinian protest. Video showed police officers telling Gideon Falter that his "quite openly Jewish" appearance risked provoking the protesters and threatening to arrest him for "causing a breach of the peace" if he didn't leave the area. After the video…
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Today in Supreme Court History: April 21, 1800
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 am4/21/1800: Justice Alfred Moore takes judicial oath.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith Lacks Standing to Defend the D.C. Circuit's ruling on Presidential Immunity in the Supreme Court
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amDefendant standing must exist at all stages of any litigation and must be raised by the justices of the Supreme Court even if the litigants themselves fail to raise it
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Monday Open Thread
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amWhat's on your mind?
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Brickbat: Keeping Drugs Off the Street
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amTressa Beltran, former police chief of Hartford, Michigan, has been charged with multiple felonies, including delivery of narcotics, larceny, extortion, using a computer to commit a crime, embezzlement over $50 by a public official, and three counts of drug possession. Beltran reportedly admitted stealing from the drug disposal box at the police department. Now a…
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Today in Supreme Court History: April 22, 1992
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 am4/22/1992: Planned Parenthood v. Casey argued.
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Politicians Helped Kill Amazon's Roomba Deal
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amDid Elizabeth Warren help cause hundreds of layoffs in Massachusetts?
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The Bail Project Isn't Liable for Crimes by People It Bailed Out
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amFrom Troutt v. The Bail Project, Inc., decided Friday by the Kentucky Court of Appeals (opinion by Judge Pamela Goodwine, joined by Judge Christopher McNeill): On February 24, 2022, the Troutts filed a complaint against TBP alleging TBP was negligent in posting a bail bond for Michael DeWitt …, loss of consortium of their daughter,…
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Julian Simon Was Right: Ingenuity Leads to Abundance
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amWe live in a world of abundance (when politicians don’t screw it up).
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District Court Unseals Sentencing Memorandum in Case Involving Detroit's "Topless Prophet"
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amFrom Judge Linda Parker's opinion Thursday in U.S. v. Markovitz (E.D. Mich.); the defendant is the author of Topless Prophet: The True Story of America's Most Successful Gentleman's Club Entrepreneur, though the criminal case appears unrelated to the book: Charles Blackwell initiated this miscellaneous action to unseal the sentencing memoranda in the criminal proceedings against…
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China's Retribution
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amPlus: Homework liberation in Poland, Orthodox rabbi tells students to flee Columbia, toddler anarchy, and more...
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Democrats and Republicans Unite To Give Weapons Manufacturers $59 Billion
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amHouse Speaker Mike Johnson worked with President Biden to push through a $95 billion foreign military aid package—most of which goes to the American military-industrial complex.
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For Those Who Want a More Musical Volokh
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04EaonspyvM Volokh, apparently from the place name Wallachia (Romania), is a klezmer (East European Jewish) musical composition, or perhaps a kind of such composition.
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"World on the Brink"—Interviewing Dmitri Alperovitch
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amEpisode 501 of the Cyberlaw Podcast
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TikTok Measure Passed by House Is Unconstitutional in Multiple Ways
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amTick Tock for TikTok
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Ohio AG Asks State Supreme Court To Bar Universal Injunction
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amCan a state trial court issue an "universal injunction" against all parts of a new law, even though "only two named plaintiffs have alleged narrow harms from only one part of the law."
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Next Year In Jerusalem
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amEvery year at the close of the Passover seder, Jewish people say "Next year in Jerusalem." In my life I have always repeated that phrase without much thought. Of course I could spend next year in Jerusalem; why wouldn't I? This year, that line takes on a new significance. I weep at the situation facing…
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Today in Supreme Court History: April 23, 1985
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 am4/23/1985: Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc. argued.
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Does the Constitution Protect the Right To Get High?
Reason.com Jan 1, 1970 | 00:00 amColumbia law professor David Pozen recalls the controversy provoked by early anti-drug laws and the hope inspired by subsequent legal assaults on prohibition.
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