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From the Eleventh Circuit, a reminder that First Amendment protections against government employer action are much weaker than the protections against the government as sovereign (especially, but not only, when the speech is also "disrespectful, demeaning,…

From yesterday's decision of the Iowa court of Appeals in Cue v. State, written by Judge Tyler Buller and joined……

Class actions and Administrative Procedure Act claims can achieve much the same result as the nationwide orders that the Supreme Court rejected.

There have likely been hundreds of filings with AI-hallucinated citations in American courts, but this is the first time I've seen a court note that a judge had included such a citation.

Europe’s lower GDP, higher electricity prices, and strict environmental regulations impede the use of air conditioning, contributing to the continent’s annual 175,000 heat-related deaths.

In recent years, exclusionary zoning and other regulatory restrictions have begun to block housing construction in areas where it was once relatively easy.

Can plaintiffs be sanctioned because they "refused to voluntarily dismiss [a defendant] after reviewing the additional information from his cell phone and bank records" that seems to exonerate him?

The ruling tells an interesting story about how the very body that created a cause of action for victims of federal abuse has since worked to undermine that right.

How did Zohran Mamdani’s rise happen, and what does it tell us about the future of the Democratic Party?

The DC district court issues an important decision in RAICES v Noem - the first in the new post-CASA legal universe

In this painfully mediocre Jurassic Park franchise placeholder, even the hypocrisy is nostalgic. 

From Goddard v. Interserver.Net, decided yesterday by Judge Evelyn Padin (D.N.J.): Plaintiff is a California-based technology professional …. Plaintiff is……

That's the question presented in two companion cases that the Court agreed to hear, Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. Note……

This is what Washington calls compromise: The House proposes $1, the Senate proposes $2, and somehow, the government ends up spending $3.

Americans will continue to pay higher tariffs, while Vietnamese businesses won't pay anything. Whatever happened to reciprocity?

Our dreams have fallen from supersonic world travel to jailing migrants who've hurt no one.

Plus: Trade deal with Vietnam, Romanian right-wing presidential candidate sent to trial, and more...

"Those who founded our country would not recognize [Justice Kennedy's] conception of the judicial role."

People commonly complain that Congress is doing too little, being too passive while the other branches are doing much more… The post How Congress Is Structurally Weaker than the President and the Judiciary appeared first on Reason.com.

Plus: What songs are on your Independence Day playlist?

The city's German immigrant experience suggests that immediate assimilation isn't necessary to eventual assimilation.

In England, two Metropolitan Police have been fired after strip-searching a 15-year-old girl at her school, without her parent's permission or… The post Brickbat: Second Opinion appeared first on Reason.com.

The new legislation exempts most new urban housing construction from the previously often stifling CEQA law. YIMBY ("yes in my backyard") advocates are cheering.

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The appeals court vacated a preliminary injunction that had been based on her First Amendment rights

On Sunday, I wrote, with regard to my new article on freedom of speech and college antisemitism: Coauthor David L.… The post Freedom of Expression Does Not Include the Right to Trespass appeared first on Reason.com.

So an Eleventh Circuit panel held today, by a 2-1 vote.

But, notably, the court chose not to rule on the issue of what qualifies as an "invasion."

The decision, by Judge Roy Altman (S.D. Fla.) is Monday's Block v. Matesic; for more on the plaintiff judge (Judge… The post Federal Judge Sues for Libel, Court Calls (Some) Arguments on His Side "Frivolous" and "Absurd" appeared first on Reason.com.

The organization was unfair to female competitors, unfair to Lia Thomas, and handed the Trump administration a win on a silver platter.