Federal Officials Can Keep Pressing Tech Platforms To Remove Content for Now, Court Says
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Civil forfeiture is a highly unaccountable practice. The justices have the opportunity to make it a bit less so.
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Now both a violent and nonviolent felon have been found by lower courts to have a Second Amendment right to own weapons. The Supreme Court will likely consider the issue in the near future.
The ideal number of clicks to cancel an online subscription may be four or five instead of six, but we don't need government to make that decision.
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Maria Elena Reimers has been caught in legal limbo for years.
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The feds allege the former president was keeping classified documents on America's nuclear program and defense capabilities in his Mar-a-Lago resort.
Prosecutors also want a judge to take basically all possible defenses off the table.
It's not a broad attack on free expression, but Thursday's ruling is certainly a victory for brands that can't take a joke.
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A preliminary injunction in Illinois may signal the demise of a long-running public policy fraud.
A win for Geraldine Tyler, who is now 94 years old, would be a win for property rights.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two consolidated cases by Alabama women whose cars were both seized for more than a year before courts found they were innocent owners.
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It’s not the FDA’s job to tell doctors what to do.
Hopefully the Supreme Court will soon put a permanent stop to the EPA's Clean Water Act land grab.
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The divergent orders from judges in Washington state and Texas may bring the battle over mifepristone to the Supreme Court.
Philip Esformes' case is a story about what happens when the government violates some of its most basic promises.
The CFPB funding scheme is constitutional, the 2nd Circuit says.
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James King is once again asking the high court to rule that two officers should not receive immunity for choking him unconscious and temporarily disfiguring his face.
The 11th Circuit panel refused to lift an injunction against the law.
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It's a threat to our fundamental rights, but courts refuse to change their approach.
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"In short, the controlling motivations for the suspension were the interest in bringing down a reform prosecutor," the judge wrote.
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The 2018 law criminalizes websites that "promote or facilitate" prostitution. Two of three judges on the panel pushed back against government claims that this doesn't criminalize speech.
It may sound bizarre, but yes, you can be punished at sentencing for an offense you were acquitted of by a jury.
Federal sentences for simple marijuana possession dropped by 93 percent over seven years.
No judge should have to fear for their lives as they defend the rule of law. But that doesn’t mean they can infringe on other civil liberties to protect their information.
By giving powerful law enforcement officials absolute immunity from civil liability, the Supreme Court leaves their victims with no recourse.
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This is bad news for any virtual currency that was pre-mined, including ethereum.
No one is confused about whether Tofurky is turkey.
Priscilla Villarreal found herself in a jail cell for publishing two routine stories. A federal court still can't decide what to do about that.
In a post-FOSTA world, Section 230 still protects websites from lawsuits over criminal sexual conduct by their users.
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