Court finds parent’s right to comment on their interactions with their child’s coaches or teachers is cleartly established. “Welcome! Play Safe,” reads the sign at a Fairfax County Public School playground in Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. The sign also lists a few simple rules—21 of them, by my count. First off, the playground…
Banks routinely snitch on customers and even deny services to people politicians don’t like. In the mid-2000s, the news media underwent rapid change, beginning a transformation from stodgy to spicy. Social media networks and trailblazing online-only news outlets changed the way everyone used the internet. Perhaps no one had a better view of the whole…
8/28/1958: Cooper v. Aaron is argued. 8/27/1948: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes dies. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 27, 1948 appeared first on Reason.com.
“Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i) … commands that the court must address the defendant personally to afford him the chance to speak or present evidence in mitigation.” The Wind Andrey Makarevich is an influential and pioneering Russian singer and songwriter. He founded what is apparently the oldest continuing Russian rock band, Time Machine, in…
“[T]he Government argue[d] that when considering that the charged offenses occurred after the acquittal, the [appellant’s] tactics were emboldened and this factor weighs in favor of admissibility.” The Chicago Police Department said it is investigating an incident in which officers apprehended a man identified by witnesses as the person who attacked another man on the…
New York City and New York state are locked in a battle over sale of the fatty liver delicacy. In early August, a furor broke out among legal commentators when District Judge Brantley Starr in Texas ordered lawyers for Southwest Airlines to submit to training on the rights of religious believers conducted by the Alliance…
Plus: kids and screen time, banks and the FBI, and more… The House Judiciary Committee is investigating banks for sharing Americans’ financial information with the FBI without regard for privacy concerns. In fact, there’s no doubt about the threat to civil liberties posed by the government’s leverage over the financial industry; that’s long established. At…
A response to Porter v. North Carolina State University 8/28/1958: Cooper v. Aaron is argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 28, 1958 appeared first on Reason.com.
Only when necessary to protect five basic internet rights. This past term the Supreme Court upheld a California law barring the sale of animal products that are not produced in conformity with the state’s animal welfare laws, even if the products are produced out of state. A majority of the justices rejected the claim that…
What’s on your mnd? A gunman carrying a rifle emblazoned with a swastika killed three people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday before taking his own life. The shooter, 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmete, was white. All of his victims—52-year-old Angela Michelle Carr, 19-year-old Anolt Joseph “AJ” Laguerre Jr., and 29-year-old Jerrald…
