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| 19.08.2024 | How a former agriculture industry exec found himself CEO of cultivated meat company Meatable | Listen to the article 6 min
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Jeff “Trip” Tripician spent the majority of his 38 year career in the agriculture industry before pivoting to dairy and then to meat.
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| 15.08.2024 | The Battle Over Cultivated Meat: Upside Foods Takes Florida to Court | In a world where innovation meets tradition, a clash is brewing in the Sunshine State. Upside Foods, a pioneer in cultivated meat, has filed a lawsuit against Florida's recent ban on its products. This legal battle is not just about chicken... |
| 14.08.2024 | The Battle for Home and Freedom: Eminent Domain and Press Rights Under Siege | In America, the concept of home is sacred. It’s not just a structure; it’s a sanctuary. But what happens when that sanctuary is threatened? Eminent domain is a powerful tool, often wielded by local governments, that can turn dreams into nig... |
| 14.08.2024 | Everything You Need to Know About Upside Foods’ Lawsuit Against Florida’s Cultivated Meat Ban | 9 Mins Read California’s Upside Foods has filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida over its ban on cultivated meat, and is asking the federal court for an injunction. Here’s what happened, and what’s to come.
Forty-two days after Florid... |
| 13.08.2024 | Upside Foods sues Florida over cultivated meat ban | Listen to the article 5 min
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Since cultivated meat’s entry into the U.S. market in June 2023, the product has sparked debate.
So much so that Florida Gov. Ron Desantis, w... |
| 13.08.2024 |
Opinion: Stranger than fiction: Eminent domain displacement | Imagine that the local government where you live is invoking eminent domain rights concerning your dear home to build a road or park or let a private developer do as they will (Kelo v. New London in 2005).
To make matters worse, there has b... |
| 13.08.2024 | Institute for Justice and UPSIDE Food File Lawsuit Against State of Florida | In partnership with the cultivated chicken company UPSIDE Foods, the Institute for Justice (IJ) has filed a lawsuit against the Florida law banning cultivated meat.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill prohibiting the production, distr... |
| 07.08.2024 | Michigan Supreme Court Puts Another Dent In State’s Abusive Forfeiture Laws | Michigan has long been terrible in terms of asset forfeiture. I mean, it’s a problem everywhere, but in Michigan, cops took cars as often as they took cash. Cars were taken from people simply because they happened to pass through areas “kno... |
| 30.07.2024 | Virginia Appeals Court Adds A Bit More Due Process To Asset Forfeiture Proceedings | The asset forfeiture playing field is still far from level, but it at least got a little bit better in Virginia, thanks to a recent state appeals court decision. Here’s Graham Moomaw with more details for the Virginia Mercury:
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| 24.07.2024 | Appeals Court Says Cop Whose Cop Dog Bit Another Cop Is Entitled To Qualified Immunity | Huh. Here’s something you definitely don’t see every day. But before we get to the ruling, let’s do a brief exploration of the ultra-weird legal landscape that has made it clear cop dogs and cops should be held to way different standards th... |
| 16.07.2024 | 7 Years And A Supreme Court Visit Later, Court (Again) Rules Cop Can’t Sue Activist Over Violent Acts Committed By Others | I can’t even imagine what it must be like to fight an obviously bogus lawsuit for most of a decade. That’s what activist DeRay Mckesson has been dealing with since 2017.
Mckesson participated in a protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana all the w... |
| 10.07.2024 | Appeals Court Tells Cops They Can’t Hold A House Hostage For Hours Before Finally Deciding To Get A Warrant | Most people would respond to a possible drug overdose by seeking immediate medical attention and following up with medical professionals to see how the victim is faring.
I mean, that’s what the EMTs who responded to a drug overdose call did... |
| 14.06.2024 | DC Appeals Court Says CIA Can Continue To Withhold 35-Year-Old Memo Already Published By Another Gov’t Agency | Certain government agencies are of the opinion that records requesters shouldn’t even be able to pry the documents they’re seeking from their cold, dead fingers. Long after anyone could be affected and long after the people who’ve created t... |
| 12.06.2024 | Sixth Circuit Tells Ohio AG To Stop Blocking Ballot Initiative Calling For End Of Qualified Immunity | Plenty of people don’t care for all the forms of immunity the government has granted itself. And they don’t care for qualified immunity, which is a thing the Supreme Court cooked up on its own.
These multiple forms of immunity have tended t... |
| 29.05.2024 | 4th Circuit Says Using Drones To Photograph Property Isn’t Protected By The 1st Amendment | The ultimate lesson here is one that’s been taught over and over again by the government of a free nation: if you attempt to bypass government revenue generation mechanisms, expect to get put in your place, citizen.
Back in 2021, North Caro... |
| 10.05.2024 | 4th Circuit To Cops: Arresting Someone For Following Your Instructions Means You Don’t Get Any Immunity | No matter how you might feel about constitutional rights or which ones are your favorites, the fact remains that it’s often people with the least amount of cultural cachet and/or the most to lose who make the best case law.
And so it is her... |
| 23.04.2024 | Top Lawyer In Texas Doesn’t Understand Court Rulings, Celebrates Obvious SCOTUS Loss As A Win | Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is an utter asshat. Not only is he the chosen defender of litigation over unconstitutional laws passed by an equally idiotic legislature, but he’s also the man behind plenty of Texas government action meant... |
| 20.03.2024 | Court Tells FBI It Can’t Just Take A US Private Vault Customer’s Money Without Explaining Its Actions | US Private Vaults is a private company, in multiple senses of the word. Despite the use of the acronym “US,” US Private Vaults is not a government entity. The service it offers aligns roughly with storage services federally insured banks of... |
| 06.02.2024 | Fifth Circuit: Upon Further Review, Fuck The First Amendment | I’m not a religious man, but Jesus Fucking Christ.
Yet another insane decision that allows the government to ignore constitutional rights has been handed down by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals — the one nationally known as the most cop-... |
| 24.01.2024 | Court Says Marine Vet’s Lawsuit Against Nevada’s Forfeiture Laws Can Move Forward | On February, 19, 2021, the government — taking the form of Nevada State Troopers (and an assist via phone by the DEA) — stole former Marine Stephen Lara’s life savings.
Lara was traveling from Texas to California in a rental vehicle to visi... |
| 05.01.2024 | Police Union Defends Forfeiture By Saying Anyone Carrying A Bunch Of Cash Is Probably A Criminal | I’m always heartened to see another local news team start digging into asset forfeiture. Especially the ones that don’t sugarcoat the findings with headlines that read like they were crafted by law enforcement officials. |
| 26.12.2023 | Fifth Circuit Tells Wrongly Convicted Woman She Can’t Sue Over Obvious Judicial Fuckery | When we’re young, impressionable, and financially incapable of donating significant amounts of money to super PACs, we’re taught that the American government is a system of checks and balances. Civics classes explain there are three branche... |
| 07.12.2023 | Wyoming’s Top Court Says It’s OK To For Cops To Steal Money Obtained From Legal Drug Sales | Possibly legally-obtained funds traveling from Point A to Point B? Those belong to the law enforcement middlemen. That’s how Wyoming’s top court explains things, in a decision [PDF] that says money obtained from legal drug sales in other st... |
| 27.11.2023 | Fifth Circuit Says Siccing A Police Dog On A Suicidal Person Is Excessive Force, Still Grants Immunity To Officer | I don’t know what it is about US law enforcement culture, but it far too often seems to be that officers deployed to help people choose to hurt people instead. When people are suffering mental distress, cops become first responders. Unlike ... |
| 16.11.2023 | Indiana’s Top Court Adds More Due Process To Forfeiture, Says A Jury Needs To Be Part Of The Process | The courts in Indiana have made significant moves in recent years to do what the legislature won’t: limit asset forfeiture abuse. |
| 09.11.2023 | Appeals Court Confirms Judge Gets No Immunity For Personally Searching Someone’s House | We’ve dealt with plenty of outlandish government behavior here at Techdirt over the years. But, every so often, something clears that high bar — something that hits you square in the jaw and makes you take a step back. |
| 23.10.2023 | Supreme Court Asked (Again!) To Rule That Recording Cops Is Protected By The 1st Amendment | You’d think this legal question would be settled by now. Smartphones have been in everyday use for more than a decade. Citizen journalists have been part of our daily life ever since the advent of affordable portable cameras. The internet h... |
| 18.09.2023 | Appeals Court Says Michigan County’s Vehicle Forfeiture Program Is Unconstitutional | Wayne County, Michigan cops and prosecutors love seizing property. According to law enforcement, seizing cash and cars from people (while often not charging them with crimes) is the best way to break up criminal organizations and disrupt th... |
| 15.09.2023 | Eighth Circuit Says Cops Can Come With Probable Cause For An Arrest AFTER They’ve Already Arrested Someone | Well, this is a bit of a doozy. This case — via the Institute for Justice — involves a possible First Amendment violation but somehow ends with a judicial blessing of cops who make things up after the fact to justify an arrest that has alre... |
| 24.08.2023 | Appeals Court Says DC Cops Possibly Violated The First Amendment By Arresting Pro-Life Sidewalk Chalkers | I guess the feeling was that some protesters needed to be arrested. And when most protesters are protesting cops, it’s probably a whole lot easier to go after those that aren’t. |
| 18.08.2023 | Appeals Court Says Woman Can Continue To Sue Over $8,000 Civil Forfeiture | Just fucking weird. Seems illegal. How do we get away with this in a constitutional republic? Rights exist. And et cetera. |
| 03.08.2023 | By Making Its Porn Age Verification Law A ‘Bounty’ Law, Utah Able To Deflect Challenge To The Law’s Validity | Over the last few years, as we’ve seen state legislatures and governors focusing on culture war legislating, rather than sensible policy legislating, one thing that’s become popular — kicked off by Texas’s anti-abortion law, but gladly embr... |
| 20.07.2023 | Maryland’s Top Court Calls Bullshit On Ballistic Forensics | So much of what is considered [cough] bulletproof evidence in criminal cases is nothing more than pseudoscience dressed in a lab coat. For years, prosecutors have presented science-y sounding “evidence” derived from lab techniques that had ... |
| 06.07.2023 | Multiple David Sosas Ask Supreme Court To Overturn Decision Saying It’s Fine To Arrest ANY David Sosa When Cops Are Seeking A SPECIFIC David Sosa | Never mind fitting the description, even though that, too, has its own problems. In Texas, it apparently only matters how your name is spelled. If you share a name with a criminal suspect, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has said you ... |
| 22.06.2023 | It’s Time For Congress To End Federal Policing For Profit | Linda Martin standing in front of FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.Institute for Justice |
| 15.05.2023 | Court Suppresses Breathalyzer Results In 27,000 DUI Cases After Years Of Being Jerked Around By The State Crime Lab | For more than a decade, the Massachusetts State Police crime lab hid information from judges, prosecutors, and criminal defendants. This is nothing unusual for this state and its crime labs. The words “Massachusetts,” “crime lab,” and “scan... |
| 15.05.2023 | Ads for our Future Awards First $100,000 Digital Advertising Grant to the Institute for Justice | Ads for our Future campaign to support the Institute for Justice
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Ads for our Future awards digital advertising grant to Institute for Justice, a p... |
| 13.05.2023 | A retired Georgia couple is fighting back against a railroad company that wants to take land their family has owned for generations | Don and Sally Garrett oppose Sandersville Railroad's plans. Institute for Justice
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The Garretts' family has owned the land since the 1800s and they are... |
| 28.04.2023 | Fourth Circuit: TSA Agents Are Law Enforcement Officers And Of Course They Can Be Sued For Molesting People | Grope. Grope. Grope grope grope. Grope. Andddddddd… some humiliating of people with rare medical conditions just because. |
| 07.04.2023 | A man had $40,000 cash seized by police at Phoenix airport and had to go to court to get it back | A man who had $40,000 cash seized by police had to wait almost three years to get it back.
Jerry Johnson arrived at Phoenix Airport in August 2020 when detectives took his savings.
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| 07.04.2023 | A man had $40,000 cash seized by police at Phoenix airport and had to go to court to get it back | It took almost three years for Jerry Johnson to get his money back. Institute for Justice
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| 26.03.2023 | The FBI seized $40,000 a couple held in a deposit box 2 years ago, but won't say why and won't return their cash | The FBI seized a couple's savings they held in a deposit box in a raid in March 2021.
Linda Martin said the agency had never explained why it's still holding her $40,200.
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| 06.03.2023 | The Week That Will Be | Event Announcements
Monday, Mar. 6, 2023, at 8:00 a.m. ET: The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a discussion about how United States’ deterrence strategies in the Taiwan Strait and Indo-Pacific are interpreted by... |
| 02.03.2023 | Why Do Law Enforcers Keep Stealing Forfeiture Funds? | The temptation for law officers to steal from forfeiture funds seems to be especially strong.Getty |
| 22.02.2023 | Not The Onion: Supreme Court Lets Police Get Away With Jailing Man Who Made Fun Of Them On Facebook | Without any dissent, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear an appeal from Anthony Novak, who was jailed for four days and charged with a felony for making a parody Facebook page of his local police department. By declining to ta... |
| 12.01.2023 | Tenth Circuit Reminds Cops It’s Unconstitutional To Pull People Over To Flirt With Them | Law enforcement officers have a disturbing propensity for abusing their power. And far too many abuse this power to engage in things entirely unrelated to police work, like browsing databases for information about members of the opposite se... |
| 09.01.2023 | Appeals Court Hands Immunity To TSA Agents Who Forced Man To Delete His Recording Of Them | Yeah, this is not great. This is yet more case law basically saying don’t bother suing federal agents because, unless they’ve very specifically done the same thing other federal agents have been held accountable for, they’re just going to w... |
| 22.12.2022 | Fifth Circuit Asked To Not Fuck Up Solid First Amendment Decision It’s Already Handed Down Twice | This is an unwelcome development. The Fifth Circuit Appeals Court is already the home of Rights Roulette. Everyone is free to take it for a spin, but should be aware the odds heavily favor the house. The government comes out a winner more o... |
| 19.12.2022 | Independent Journalist Sues Deputy Who Arrested Him For Filming Officers Responding To A Call | Maybe if enough cases pile into the federal court system, the Supreme Court might decide to actually establish a First Amendment right to record public officials as they engage in their public duties. Until then, we’re stuck with a patchwor... |
| 19.12.2022 | Prosecutors Who Grossly Violate The Constitution Must Be Held Accountable | Attorney Felix Vinluan and the Filipino nurses he provided legal advice to.Institute for Justice |
| 08.12.2022 | Appeals Court Reminds Cop That Calling Normal Human Behavior Suspicious Is No Way To Secure A Conviction | Since cops are trained to view everything as suspicious, they tend to believe everything is suspicious. The list of things considered to be suspicious often contradicts other things on the list of things considered suspicious. That should b... |
| 05.12.2022 | ‘When they took the foundation, everything started crumbling’: California group fights eminent domain, racism | In summary
Where is My Land aims to help Black families regain property, sometimes decades after a government takes it. Though hundreds seek this help, founder Kavon Ward says her group focuses on a few cases at a time.
Beverly Moore recall... |
| 23.11.2022 | Holiday Flyers Should Know, The Government Is On The Prowl For Cash | Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C.Getty Images |
| 10.11.2022 | Prosecutor Defeats Chewbacca Defense In An Actual Federal Court Case | In a case of real life not quite imitating art, a prosecutor who compared a defense attorney’s closing arguments to the Chewbacca Defense was able to win at trial. Although the prosecutor made an “improper remark” by invoking the defense fr... |
| 08.11.2022 | Appeals Court Says St. Louis County’s Warrantless Arrests Are Likely Unconstitutional… But Somehow Still Pretty Much OK | Law enforcement needs probable cause to effect arrests and engage in searches. In most cases, a warrant is also required. It’s a bit of paperwork that allows the government to bypass Fourth Amendment protections to serve the greater good, i... |
| 08.11.2022 | Louisiana Cops Sued After Dash Cam Video Showed They Lied About Why They Performed A Pretextual Stop | Courts have continually said pretextual stops are a cool way to engage in law enforcement fishing expeditions. But there are a few caveats. |
| 01.11.2022 | Ninth Circuit Bucks Extremely Recent Trend, Says Chalking Tires Not A Fourth Amendment Violation | I have to admit I’m amused by recent court activity dealing with chalking tires. Something that has been done for years with zero protest — marking tires with chalk to determine how long a vehicle has been parked — is now fodder for federal... |
| 01.11.2022 | 46 landmark Supreme Court cases that changed American life as we knew it | Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building on Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
The US Supreme Court was formed... |
| 28.10.2022 | Arizona woman sues city after arrest for feeding homeless: "Criminalized kindness" | Norma Thornton spent almost 20 years running a restaurant in Alaska before retiring to Arizona with her husband in 2017. With more time on her hands, she started cooking hot meals and giving them to the homeless population around Bullhead C... |
| 06.10.2022 | Grandmother Urges Supreme Court To Stop The IRS From Confiscating Bank Accounts | After the IRS demanded half of her bank account for failing to file a one-page form, an 82-year-old grandmother is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to reject that penalty as an unconstitutionally excessive fine. By taking her case, the Sup... |
| 28.09.2022 | Lawsuit filed after FBI agents raided 1,400 deposit boxes at a US Private Vaults branch claims owners' items have still not been returned | Deposit-box holders whose property was seized in a March 2021 FBI raid are suing the bureau.
The FBI raided a US Private Vaults branch and seized the contents of 1,400 safe-deposit boxes.
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| 25.09.2022 | Lawsuit filed after FBI agents raided 1,400 deposit boxes at a US Private Vaults branch claims owners' items have still not been returned | FBI agents raided the Beverly Hills branch of US Private Vaults in March 2021. Mandel Ngan/Getty Images
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| 23.09.2022 | Fifth Circuit Grants Immunity To Cop Who Decided To Violently Arrest Family That Called To Report A Crime | If you want your rights violated, all you need to do is call a cop. If you want your rights upheld, you’ll probably want your rights to be violated in another federal circuit. |
| 20.09.2022 | Cops Taking Property From The Innocent Is “Legitimate,” South Carolina Supreme Court Rules | In a major blow against government accountability, the South Carolina Supreme Court last week upheld the state’s civil forfeiture laws, which let police permanently confiscate cash, cars, and even homes, without ever filing criminal charges... |
| 01.09.2022 | IRS wants $2.1 million from 82-year-old grandmother whose family fled the Nazis | More On: irs
IRS to spend just 4% of $80B funding on customer service despite pledge to help taxpayers The establishment’s IRS whitewashing will leave more taxpayers in the lurch ‘Yoga to the People’ execs bent over backward to avoid paying... |
| 19.08.2022 | FBI Lied To Court En Route To Seizing Property Owned By Private Vault Company Customers | There is no doubt civil asset forfeiture perverts law enforcement’s incentives. When a government agency can directly profit from seizing people’s property, it will do this as often as it can. And when the justice system is skewed against p... |
| 26.07.2022 | Supreme Court Asked To Deny Qualified Immunity To County Engineer Who Decided Entrapment Was The Best Use Of Taxpayer Money | We all know this country is capable of evils normally associated with authoritarian regimes — things like torture, illegal spying, the occasional exhortation to commit suicide, etc. But we expect the country we love to only violate our sens... |
| 22.07.2022 | Digital Marketplace for Home-Based Businesswomen West Tenth Joins HearstLab Portfolio | Small businesses can bloom on West Tenth's digital marketplace
West Tenth's Co-Founders, CEO Lyn Johnson and COO Sara Sparhawk
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| 21.07.2022 | How Government Officials Set Up Cameras On Private Property And Get Away With It | An example of the type of trail camera secretly placed on club property by government officials. getty |
| 07.07.2022 | Jury Says Texas City Must Pay Woman $60k After Cops Destroyed Her Home To Apprehend A Suspect | Bucking a trend set by two separate Appeals Courts (Ninth and Tenth), a federal court in Texas has said it is actually a violation of rights when cops destroy an innocent person’s home to effect an arrest. What’s more, a jury has backed up ... |
| 29.04.2022 | Houston Passes Ordinance Forcing Businesses To Install Cameras, Provide Warrantless Access To Recordings | Citing a post-pandemic shutdown surge in violent crime and some other shaky reasoning, the city council of Houston, Texas has decided the time has come to violate the rights of business owners. Here’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown for Reason: |
| 28.04.2022 | Wisconsin Town Lawyer Lies To Journalist, Sues Activist Who Pointed Out His Lie | Bogus lawsuits are a form of bullying. (Hence the need for a federal anti-SLAPP law.) Some lawsuits are merely frivolous, filed by people who have no idea how the law works. Others, like this one, are filed solely to silence critics and rem... |
| 21.04.2022 | DOJ Agrees To Return Cash Seized From Company Transporting Proceeds From Sales Of Legal Weed | In February, cash transport business Empyreal Logistics sued the DOJ and a California sheriff for the lifting of nearly $1.2 million in cash from its drivers during two traffic stops. Empyreal, which notes that it follows all federal guidan... |
| 01.04.2022 | New Bill Would Legalize Blow Dry Bars, Makeup Artists In New Hampshire | Living up to its reputation as the Live Free or Die state, a new bill in New Hampshire would—quite literally—get the government out of your hair. Approved by the House of Representatives in March and under consideration in the Senate, HB 11... |
| 15.03.2022 | Hundreds Of Women Will Keep Working For New Mothers After Court Victory | Mary Jackson is a breastfeeding consultant with decades of experience. Still, a Georgia law could ... [+] put her out of work. Institute for Justice |
| 17.02.2022 | California Sheriff, US DOJ Sued For Seizures Of Cash Generated By Legal Pot Businesses | A lawsuit filed against both California and federal law enforcement agencies claims the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department is exploiting the disagreement between state and federal marijuana laws to stop and seize cash being transpor... |
| 17.02.2022 | California Sheriff, US DOJ Sued For Seizures Of Cash Generated By Legal Pot Businesses | A lawsuit filed against both California and federal law enforcement agencies claims the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is exploiting the disagreement between state and federal marijuana laws to stop and seize cash being transpor... |
| 28.12.2021 | Dallas PD Brags About Stealing Money From A Woman At An Airport, Is Now Facing Scrutiny From Its Oversight Board | In a spectacular bit of self-ownership, the Dallas Police Department (DPD) took to Facebook to brag about stealing money from a person at Love Field Airport. |
| 28.12.2021 | Dallas PD Brags About Stealing Money From A Woman At An Airport, Is Now Facing Scrutiny From Its Oversight Board | In a spectacular bit of self-ownership, the Dallas Police Department (DPD) took to Facebook to brag about stealing money from a person at Love Field Airport. |
| 22.12.2021 | DEA Gives Former Marine Back $86,900 Cops Took From Him During A Nevada Traffic Stop Caught On Body Cam | Because law enforcement just can't stop taking money from innocent people, here's another roadside shitshow that has resulted in an attempt to force the government to give back money it flat out stole. |
| 22.12.2021 | DEA Gives Former Marine Back $86,900 Cops Took From Him During A Nevada Traffic Stop Caught On Body Cam | Because law enforcement just can’t stop taking money from innocent people, here’s another roadside shitshow that has resulted in an attempt to force the government to give back money it flat out stole. |
| 08.11.2021 | Institute For Justice Survey Shows How Philadelphia's Forfeiture Program Preyed On Poor Minorities | The Institute for Justice managed to kill off most of Philadelphia’s severely abused civil forfeiture program in 2018. Litigation resulted in a consent decree that banned law enforcement from seizing cash amounts less than $250 and seizures... |
| 08.11.2021 | Institute For Justice Survey Shows How Philadelphia's Forfeiture Program Preyed On Poor Minorities | The Institute for Justice managed to kill off most of Philadelphia's severely abused civil forfeiture program in 2018. Litigation resulted in a consent decree that banned law enforcement from seizing cash amounts less than $250 and seizures... |
| 04.11.2021 | Syracuse University Announces Transformative $30 Million Gift to Secure the Future and Long-Term Success of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families | Syracuse, New York, Nov. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This week the Syracuse University community came together to dedicate and formally open the National Veterans Resource Center (NVRC) at the Daniel and Gayle D’Aniello Building, and to ce... |
| 19.10.2021 | Appeals Court Says Couple's Lawsuit Over Bogus Vehicle Forfeiture Can Continue | Another attempted government theft has been thwarted by the courts. The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court has ruled in favor of a couple whose vehicle was carjacked by Arizona law enforcement officers while their son used it for an extended road ... |
| 19.10.2021 | Appeals Court Says Couple's Lawsuit Over Bogus Vehicle Forfeiture Can Continue | Another attempted government theft has been thwarted by the courts. The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court has ruled in favor of a couple whose vehicle was carjacked by Arizona law enforcement officers while their son used it for an extended road ... |
| 02.07.2021 | Innocent Citizens Sue The FBI Over Illegal Security Deposit Box Raid | Paul and Jennifer Snitko in front of U.S. Private Vaults, where they rented a security deposit box.Institute for Justice |
| 16.06.2021 | FBI Ignored Its Own Warrant And Search Policies To Seize Millions From People's Safety Deposit Boxes | This brief clip from an FBI training film helps explain the actions undertaken by agents during a raid on a secure storage facility earlier this year: |
| 13.06.2021 | Indiana Supreme Court: Confiscating Man’s Land Rover In 8-Year-Long Legal Battle Was “Overly Harsh” | A Hoosier man who had his Land Rover seized and later won a major U.S. Supreme Court case has scored another victory in his eight-year-long battle to recover his car. By a vote of 4-1, the Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Tyson ... |
| 25.05.2021 | Al-Hela v. Biden and Due Process at Guantanamo | On April 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted Guantanamo Bay detainee Abdulsalam Ali Abdulrahman Al-Hela’s petition for a rehearing en banc to consider his claim for habeas corpus relief under the Due Process C... |
| 14.04.2021 | Federal Court Slams Cops Who Claimed Black Men Shaking Hands Was A Drug Deal | North Carolina officers who stopped and frisked a Black man after seeing him shake hands with two other Black men lacked “reasonable suspicion” to believe the handshake was a hand-to-hand drug deal, a federal court ruled late last month. Ad... |
| 13.04.2021 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 278: Two Curious Cases | It's one more podcast cross-post this week! A recent episode of the Institute for Justice's Short Circuit podcast dug into two very interesting legal cases: one that explores one of the more rarely-invoked pieces of Section 230, and another... |
| 13.04.2021 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 278: Two Curious Cases | It’s one more podcast cross-post this week! A recent episode of the Institute for Justice’s Short Circuit podcast dug into two very interesting legal cases: one that explores one of the more rarely-invoked pieces of Section 230, and another... |
| 06.04.2021 | Judge Says DEA, TSA Can Continue To Be Sued For Stealing Cash From Airline Passengers | The DEA's love for taking cash from travelers has gotten it sued. Again. In August 2019, DEA agents -- working with TSA agents -- took more than $80,000 from Rebecca Brown, who was carrying her father's (Terry Rolin) savings through an airp... |
| 06.04.2021 | Judge Says DEA, TSA Can Continue To Be Sued For Stealing Cash From Airline Passengers | The DEA’s love for taking cash from travelers has gotten it sued. Again. In August 2019, DEA agents — working with TSA agents — took more than $80,000 from Rebecca Brown, who was carrying her father’s (Terry Rolin) savings through an airpor... |
| 16.03.2021 | Florida Sheriff's Office Sued For Using 'Predictive Policing' Program To Harass Residents | The Pasco County (FL) Sheriff’s Office is being sued over its targeted harassment program — one it likes to call “predictive policing.” |
| 16.03.2021 | Florida Sheriff's Office Sued For Using 'Predictive Policing' Program To Harass Residents | The Pasco County (FL) Sheriff's Office is being sued over its targeted harassment program -- one it likes to call "predictive policing." |
| 12.03.2021 | Police Wrecked An Innocent Woman’s Home And Left Her With The Repair Bill | Vicki Baker's house after a McKinney, Texas SWAT team raided it.Institute for Justice |
| 08.03.2021 | A $100,000 Parking Violation Shows Why Americans Need Protection From Excessive Fines | Fines issued by the town of Lantana add up to more than half the value of Sandy Martinez's modest ... [+] home. Institute for Justice |
| 08.03.2021 | Universities Threaten Virtual Campus Tour Business Over Trademarks | The COVID-19 pandemic has changed and continues to change how life works for many of us in a variety of ways. We’re learning just how underserved America is by our monopolistic broadband providers, for instance. Esports has come into fashio... |
