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| 18.06.2025 | SCOTUS Simply Ignores Precedent, Rather Than Overruling It, In Allowing Trump To Fire Officials Congress Deemed Independent | What may be one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most important and far-reaching rulings in decades dropped in late May 2025 in an order that probably didn’t get a second – or even first – glance from most Americans.
But this not-quite-two-page ... |
| 23.04.2025 | Intelligence Assessment Shows Trump Admin’s Venezuelan Gang War Claims Are Lies | For a long time, we’ve believed no president would dare enact the Alien Enemies Act again, not after it was abused to send more than 100,000 residents and citizens of Japanese descent to US concentration camps during the Second World War.
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| 16.03.2025 | National Politics | Red flag laws are increasingly being used to protect gun owners in crisis | Her brother died by suicide May 23, 2017, in the woods near his home in Wallingford, Connecticut.Related Articles
National Politics | Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later
National Politics | Gove... |
| 06.03.2025 | The Battle Lines of American Law: Religion and Gun Control | In the United States, the landscape of law is a battlefield. On one side, the push for religious expression in public schools. On the other, the quest for tighter gun control. Both issues ignite fierce debates, drawing lines in the sand. Ea... |
| 04.03.2025 | National Politics | Eyeing a friendly Supreme Court, Republicans push for the Ten Commandments in schools | Supportive state legislators say the commandments are a historical example of law and not purely religious in nature. But while there are commandments that prohibit murder and stealing, some declare that there are no other gods above God, a... |
| 02.03.2025 | Politics | Colorado Democrats are ready to pass a sweeping gun control bill. What would it do, and is it constitutional? | There are loopholes. At the behest of Polis and some moderate Senate Democrats, the bill was amended so it would still allow people to purchase the otherwise-banned firearms under certain conditions. If buyers had previously passed a hunter... |
| 16.02.2025 | Commentary | Opinion: Maya Sen: Why federal courts are unlikely to save democracy from Trump’s and Musk’s attacks | By Maya Sen
State governments, community groups, advocacy nonprofits and regular Americans have filed a large and growing number of federal lawsuits opposing President Donald Trump’s barrage of executive orders and policy statements. Some o... |
| 14.02.2025 | National Politics | Who is Danielle Sassoon, the US attorney who resigned rather than drop charges against Eric Adams? | Sassoon also clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III in the Fourth Circuit in Charlottesville, Virginia, and for late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
In a 2016 tribute to the late justice, who was an outsp... |
| 29.01.2025 | Commentary | Opinion: Melinda Henneberger: Sure, ‘a person could get discouraged’ by Donald Trump. Except that we really can’t. | If we don’t do that, then what?
On Inauguration Day, he told me how excited he is that the nonprofit he chairs, the Smart Surfaces Coalition, just expanded into India, where they’re working, as the coalition’s website says, to “enable citie... |
| 13.01.2025 | Justice Kagan Acknowledges Bluesky, And Other Notes From The TikTok Oral Argument | On Friday I attended the oral argument in the TikTok ban case in person, seated in the second row behind the table where the government’s lawyers were sitting, and only about 15-20 feet away from the justices themselves. There’s something k... |
| 13.01.2025 | Tech Giants Reconsider DEI Ahead of Trump Inauguration | Ahead of the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, major tech companies based in the US are reconsidering their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes and policies to appease the incoming official.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Met... |
| 03.01.2025 | Politics | Colorado lawmakers prepare new legislation — and approach — to limit high-powered gun sales | The proposal is not a ban on certain semiautomatic rifles referred to as assault weapons, though its parameters would prohibit the sale of a wide swath of high-powered guns colloquially considered to be in that category. Sullivan has previo... |
| 09.11.2024 | Safeguarding Democracy: The Battle Over Election Certification | In the aftermath of elections, the process of certifying results is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of democracy. It’s the final seal of approval, the stamp that confirms the will of the people. Yet, in recent years, this process has... |
| 04.11.2024 | National Politics | Recent safeguards should quash efforts to overturn election results, experts say | Much of the anxiety from election officials and experts in the post-election period involves the certification of election results. After voters cast their ballots and local election officials count them, the results are not yet official.
L... |
| 24.10.2024 | Elon’s Demands For Media Matters’ Donor Details Hits A Surprising Hurdle: Fifth Circuit Says ‘Not So Fast’ | Elon Musk’s SLAPP suit against Media Matters has hit a roadblock, as the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals—not exactly known for its progressive rulings—has granted a stay on Judge Reed O’Connor’s order compelling the nonprofit to reveal its d... |
| 03.09.2024 | The Third Circuit’s Section 230 Decision In Anderson v. TikTok Is Pure Poppycock. | Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit concluded, in Anderson v. TikTok, that algorithmic recommendations aren’t protected by Section 230. Because they’re the platforms’ First Amendment-protected expression, the court re... |
| 22.08.2024 | National Politics | Fact-checking Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention | Abortion ban
After predicting that Trump and Vance would “gut Social Security and Medicare,” Walz repeated the outdated claim that “they will ban abortion across this country with or without Congress.” Trump used to support that position, b... |
| 21.08.2024 | Seventh Circuit Allows Indiana’s Controversial Age Verification Law, For Now | The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed Indiana’s age verification law to go into effect — even as the Supreme Court has suggested a similar law in Texas might be unconstitutional. The Seventh Circuit panel handed down this ru... |
| 18.08.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Kate Andrias: Amazon, SpaceX and others are arguing labor agency is unconstitutional
By Kate Andrias | By Kate Andrias
Amazon, SpaceX, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s have all responded to allegations that they have violated labor laws with the same bold argument. The National Labor Relations Board, they assert in several ongoing legal proceeding... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Messy Reality Behind Trying To Protect The Internet From Terrible Laws | The recent Supreme Court case, Moody v. NetChoice & CCIA, confronted a pivotal question: Do websites have the First Amendment right to curate content they present to their global audiences? While the opinion has been dissected by many, ... |
| 09.07.2024 | The Battle for Presidential Immunity: Roberts vs. Barrett | In the ongoing legal saga surrounding Trump's immunity case, a fierce battle has emerged between Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett. The clash between these two prominent figures on the Supreme Court has set the stage for a high-stak... |
| 08.07.2024 | Didn’t We Already Do This? Twenty Years After Supreme Court Rejected Age Verification Law, It Takes Up New Case | Just when you thought the internet was safe from the meddling minds of the Supreme Court, the Justices have decided to take another crack at reviewing whether or not a new set of state regulations of the internet violates the First Amendmen... |
| 05.07.2024 | National Politics | Barrett sought middle ground in Trump immunity case. This time Roberts said no | A former Notre Dame law professor,
Barrett saw no need for a broad ruling on presidential immunity in Trump’s case.
“Properly conceived, the president’s constitutional protection from prosecution is narrow,” she wrote in a concurring opinio... |
| 04.07.2024 | What the Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Decision Means for ESG, and Other Key Trends | For companies, navigating the ESG landscape means balancing various stakeholder demands, keeping abreast of rapidly-changing new laws and regulations, and calibrating contradictory litigation risks. Last week, this already-difficult landsca... |
| 02.07.2024 | What the Chevron decision might mean for FDA’s nutrition policy agenda | Listen to the article 6 min
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| 02.07.2024 | «Трамп слишком маленький»: Первая Поправка против запрета на имена в товарных знаках | Семилетняя битва за то, чтобы превратить в товарный знак мем про маленькие руки Дональда Трампа, закончилась в июне этого года в американском Верховном суде. Закончилась она поражением Стива Элстера в деле «Видаль против Элстера». Верховный... |
| 20.05.2024 | WOW Asks Court to Throw Out Filmmakers’ Expanded Piracy Liability Lawsuit | In 2021, Colorado-based Internet provider WOW was sued by a group of movie companies, including Millennium Media and Voltage Pictures.
The filmmakers accused the ISP of failing to terminate the accounts of subscribers who were repeatedly fl... |
| 30.04.2024 | Net Neutrality Restored: A Battle for Internet Freedom | The FCC in the USA has voted to restore net neutrality rules, a move that has sparked a fierce debate between tech giants and internet providers. The rules aim to prevent ISPs from blocking or prioritizing certain content, ensuring an open ... |
| 27.04.2024 | Homelessness: A Crime or a Crisis? | The Supreme Court grapples with the issue of homelessness being criminalized in Grants Pass, Oregon. The city's ordinance fines and jails homeless individuals for sleeping outside, a practice deemed cruel and unusual punishment by lower cou... |
| 26.04.2024 | Net Neutrality Is Back! For Now. | The FCC on Thursday once again voted along party lines to restore popular net neutrality rules stripped away during the Trump administration in a flurry of protest and sleazy industry behavior.
You might recall the 2017 repeal was so unpopu... |
| 25.04.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: The Supreme Court cannot allow homelessness to be a crime | If you are homeless and have nowhere to go — neither a temporary shelter bed nor a permanent home — can you be fined or, worse, jailed for sleeping on a sidewalk? Or is that cruel and unusual punishment?
That’s the question that the Supreme... |
| 15.04.2024 | How an unrelated Supreme Court decision could jeopardize Biden's new student-loan forgiveness plan before it even goes into effect | Economy How an unrelated Supreme Court decision could jeopardize Biden's new student-loan forgiveness plan before it even goes into effect
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| 04.04.2024 | Net neutrality won’t survive a Trump presidency | Net neutrality’s long trip toward (then away from, then toward again, then away, and now once more toward) federal protections against broadband meddling may be entering its final chapter, either to die forever or be enshrined in law — depe... |
| 03.04.2024 | Supreme Court Does Not Go Far Enough In Determining When Government Officials Are Barred From Censoring Critics On Social Media | After several years of litigation across the federal appellate courts, the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous opinion has finally crafted a test that lower courts can use to determine whether a government official engaged in “state action” s... |
| 25.03.2024 | Health | Supreme Court’s anti-abortion conservatives could restrict abortion pills sent by mail, even in blue states | David G. Savage | (TNS) Los Angeles Times
The Supreme Court’s anti-abortion majority is set to consider whether to order a reversal in U.S. drug laws and restrict women from obtaining abortion medication at pharmacies or through the mail.
A... |
| 24.03.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Naomi Cahn, Alan Morrison and Sonia Suter: Biden could make it easier to get abortion | By Naomi Cahn, Alan Morrison and Sonia Suter
President Joe Biden promised during his State of the Union address on March 7, 2024, that he would make the right to get an abortion a federal law.
“If you, the American people, send me a Congres... |
| 21.03.2024 | How To Misrepresent A Supreme Court Hearing: National Review Edition | I wrote a long post on Monday about the oral arguments in the Murthy v. Missouri case. I highlighted how skeptical most of the Justices seemed regarding the arguments from the states, especially given the extensive problems in the record, w... |
| 11.03.2024 | Health | With medical debt burdening millions, a financial regulator steps in to help | Noam N. Levey | (TNS) KFF Health News
When President Barack Obama signed legislation in 2010 to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he said the new agency had one priority: “looking out for people, not big banks, not lenders, n... |
| 28.02.2024 | Amicus Brief Supports Idaho’s Pro-Life Case Before Supreme Court of the United States | WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court of the United States is set to weigh in on Moyle v. United States of America and Idaho v. United States of America, a case questioning whether the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) preempts Id... |
| 21.02.2024 | In SCOTUS NetChoice Cases, Texas’s And Florida’s Worst Enemy Is (Checks Notes) Elon Musk. | Next week, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice. The cases are about a pair of laws, enacted by Texas and Florida, that attempt to force large social media platforms such as YouTube, Instag... |
| 20.02.2024 | House punts on AI with directionless new task force | The House of Representatives has founded a Task Force on artificial intelligence that will “ensure America continues leading in this strategic area,” as Speaker Mike Johnson put it. But the announcement feels more like a punt after years of... |
| 07.02.2024 | Meet the GOP insider leading the push to disqualify Trump in Colorado | The lead plaintiff in the lawsuit filed to keep Donald Trump off of Colorado's 2024 ballot is a 91-year-old fixture of the Colorado GOP.
Why it matters: The Colorado ballot case will come before the Supreme Court on Thursday after Colorado'... |
| 31.01.2024 | ISP Suggests That Record Labels Can Sue Torrent Client Developers | Late 2022, several of the world’s largest music companies including Warner Bros. and Sony Music prevailed in their lawsuit against Internet provider Grande Communications.
The record labels accused the Astound-owned ISP of not doing enough ... |
| 17.01.2024 | Supreme Court case could limit executive power on climate, energy | The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday morning in a case that could bring fresh constraints on federal agencies' running room to craft energy and climate regulations.
Driving the news: The justices will dive into cases challenging ... |
| 12.01.2024 |
US Supreme Court to hear mortgage escrow case in February | The U.S. Supreme Court last week scheduled oral arguments for seven pending cases to take place in February, including one that will decide whether “the National Bank Act preempts the application of state escrow-interest laws to national ba... |
| 09.01.2024 | Where the legal debate stands on whether Trump can pardon himself | Whether a U.S. president can pardon himself has remained an open question in American politics for decades, but it could be answered if former President Trump is convicted of a federal crime and again wins the presidency.
Why it matters: Tr... |
| 13.12.2023 | Missouri AG Announces Bullshit Censorial Investigation Into Media Matters Over Its Speech | Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is currently engaged in numerous legal battles over speech which can more or less be summarized as “criticism of people Andrew Bailey likes is censorship,” but “criticism of people Andrew Bailey doesn... |
| 11.12.2023 | Don’t Fuel the Copyright Troll Fire, Supreme Court Hears | Over the past several years we’ve covered dozens of copyright troll cases against tens of thousands of alleged copyright infringers.
Our coverage mostly focuses on piracy-related cases, but there are other variants too. Outfits that target ... |
| 22.11.2023 | Supreme Court decision is a victory for transgender and immigrant justice | Estrella Santos-Zacaria has come a long way from San Pedro Soloma, Guatemala, a village nestled in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes mountains and known as El Valle del Ensueño, or the Valley of Dreams.
For years, Santos-Zacaria dreamed desper... |
| 14.10.2023 | Nancy Mace's quest to 'create headlines for herself' is giving her Democratic opponent fresh hope | Democratic House candidate Michael B. Moore and Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, both of South Carolina. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images; J. Scott Applewhite/AP Images
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| 10.10.2023 | What’s next in the Kaiser Permanente strike | You’re reading the web edition of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow of money through the health care system. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. The latest with the Kaiser Permanente strike
Kaiser Permanente he... |
| 01.10.2023 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Morgan Marietta: Supreme Court supermajority will clarify its constitutional revolution this year | By Morgan Marietta
The first Monday in October, the traditional date for the beginning of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term, is almost here: On Oct. 2, 2023, the court will meet after the summer recess, with the biggest case of the term focused... |
| 27.09.2023 | Microsoft vet lands $10M for new startup that watermarks documents to identify leakers | EchoMark, led by CEO and founder Troy Batterberry, raised $10 million for its digital document and email watermarking tool. (EchoMark Photo)
A growing number of leaks and stolen intellectual property are unsettling leaders at large-member o... |
| 16.08.2023 | California’s SB 680: Social Media ‘Addiction’ Bill Heading For A First Amendment Collision | Similar to the “Age Appropriate Design Code” (AADC) legislation that became law last year, California’s latest effort to regulate online speech comes in the form of SB 680, a bill by Sen. Nancy Skinner targeting the designs, algorithms, and... |
| 14.08.2023 | Hotel Accessibility Reaches the Supreme Court | As a wheelchair user with multiple disabilities, travel is unpredictable at best and completely inaccessible at worst. In order to book my trips, I have to trust the accuracy of the websites run by hotels, airlines, car rental companies, an... |
| 07.08.2023 | Court Should Block Registration Of ‘Trump Too Small’ Trademark Not Because It’s Someone’s Name, But Because No One Should Control The Phrase | There’s an interesting thing that happens all too often in trademark cases, whereby people seem to flip the underlying argument. We see it in cases where someone opposes the registration of a certain trademark, and the party seeking the tra... |
| 19.07.2023 | CCHR Says For-Profit Psychiatric Hospitals Need Stronger Penalties for Abuses and Deaths | The inadequate penalties imposed on the multi-billion dollar for-profit behavioral companies, as well as the treating psychiatrists and staff, have proven ineffective in deterring abuses.
CCHR warns despite $485M jury award to a sexually ab... |
| 17.07.2023 |
Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in CFPB constitutionality case this October | The United States Supreme Court released its calendar of oral arguments for its 2023-24 term late last week, and is wasting no time in hearing oral arguments in a case that could decide the fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Burau (C... |
| 02.07.2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Kenneth L. Shropshire: A 2003 Supreme Court decision upholding affirmative action planted the seeds of its overturning | By Kenneth L. Shropshire
In an anticipated but nonetheless stunning decision expected to have widespread implications on college campuses and workplaces across the country, the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29, 202... |
| 27.06.2023 | Supreme Court rejects sweeping conservative bid to control elections | The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected one of Republicans’ most audacious attempts to control elections.
The big picture: In a 6-3 decision, the justices said states' election laws can be challenged in court — a rebuke to a burgeoning conser... |
| 26.06.2023 | SCOTUS clears the way for Louisiana to add a majority-Black congressional district | The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted its hold on a Louisiana case that could force the state to redraw congressional districts.
Why it matters: The new lines could strengthen the voting power of Black residents, who only have a majority ... |
| 13.06.2023 | The Test-Optional College Admissions Movement Continues To Grow | The number of U.S. colleges electing to not require standardized admission tests continues to grow. getty |
| 11.06.2023 | Chief Justice John Roberts listed two vacation homes on two different continents in his real estate income disclosures while Elena Kagan listed a parking spot in DC | Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, left, and Justice Elena Kagan, right. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
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The US Supreme Court released financial disclosure reports for seven justices last week.
Chief Justice Roberts' report revea... |
| 04.06.2023 | Opponents, supporters of affirmative action on whether college admissions can be truly colorblind | Edward Blum, of Tallahassee, Fla., is not a lawyer; he retired from a job in finance. But he is founder and president of Students for Fair Admissions, a group he acknowledges starting to challenge higher education affirmative action policie... |
| 25.05.2023 | For Better or Worse, the Supreme Court Rewrote JASTA | Less than three months after oral argument, the Supreme Court issued unanimous opinions in Twitter v. Taamneh and Gonzalez v. Google, a pair of Anti-Terrorism Act cases arising from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The plain... |
| 19.05.2023 | The Supreme Court Punts on Section 230 | The Supreme Court’s big case on Section 230, Gonzalez v. Google, was going to rewrite the law of electronic communications. It was going to finally hold platforms accountable or, alternatively, give them the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free ca... |
| 10.05.2023 | Zamp wants to give online sellers ‘freedom from sales tax’ | State and local governments collected approximately $137.7 billion in sales tax during the first quarter of 2022, a 17% increase from the $117.7 billion collected in the same quarter of 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
As Rohit Bh... |
| 04.05.2023 | The Three-Body Problem: Platform Litigation and Absent Parties | Disputes about platforms’ responsibilities for online speech almost always involve three competing interests. But in typical litigation, only two parties are represented. As a result, courts don’t hear from absent people or groups who may b... |
| 24.04.2023 | Avoiding Mandatory Transparency’s Pitfalls in Online Safety Legislation | On April 19, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced a new bill, the STOP CSAM Act (an acronym for “child sex abuse material”). It’s the newest in a line of recent bills that attempt to promote greater safety online, in part by demanding more ... |
| 28.03.2023 | In Internet Speech Cases, SCOTUS Should Stick Up For Reno v. ACLU | It was by no means certain that the internet would enjoy full First Amendment protection. The radio is not shielded from the government in that way. Nor is broadcast television. Both Congress and the President supported placing online speec... |
| 26.03.2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Erik S. Herron: Estonia’s e-governance revolution is hailed as a voting success – so why are some U.S. states pulling in the opposite direction? | By Erik S. Herron
Estonia, a small country in northern Europe, reached a digital milestone when the country headed to the polls on March 5, 2023.
For the first time, over 50% of voters cast their ballots online in a national parliamentary e... |
| 24.03.2023 | D.C. Circuit Hears Oral Argument in Bahlul v. United States | On March 22, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral argument in Bahlul v. United States. The appeal raises again an interesting issue about whether the military commission convening authority is properly a... |
| 07.03.2023 | The Potential Consequences for Africa of an FTO Designation of the Wagner Group | In January, the U.S. government designated the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, “a significant transnational criminal organization.” In doing so, the Biden administration has avoided succumbing to growing pressure to design... |
| 02.03.2023 | The Supreme Court justices deciding whether to axe Biden's student loan relief program paid an average of $42,539 to go to college. Today, they'd have to pay around $320,531. | The current Supreme Court. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Biden's student debt relief on Tuesday.
The court could rule to strike down the plan that would benefit mil... |
| 28.02.2023 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: A Group Autopsy of the Supreme Court’s Section 230 Oral Argument | As promised, the Cyberlaw Podcast devoted half of this episode to an autopsy of Gonzalez v. Google LLC , the Supreme Court’s first opportunity in a quarter century to construe section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. And an autopsy is... |
| 28.02.2023 | Student Debt Snafu Shows The Danger Of Blending Public Good And Profit | LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 23: A student walks near Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA on April 23, 2012 ... [+] in Los Angeles, California. According to reports, half of recent college graduates with bachelor's degrees are finding themselves un... |
| 26.02.2023 | Don’t leave developers behind in the Section 230 debate | Shelley McKinley Contributor
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Last week marked the first time the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed Section 230 of the Communica... |
| 23.02.2023 | Section 230 Won’t Protect ChatGPT | The emergence of products fueled by generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT will usher in a new era in the platform liability wars. Previous waves of new communication technologies—from websites and chat rooms to social medi... |
| 21.02.2023 | The Supreme Court won't hear a case brought by a satirist alleging he was arrested for making fun of cops on Facebook | Stock photo. SimonSkafar/Getty Images
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An Ohio man sued his local police department after they arrested him for mocking cops online.
The Supreme Court declined to take up his case, effectively allowing the police officers to avoid... |
| 20.02.2023 | Oral Argument Preview: Gonzalez, et al. v. Google and Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh, et al. | On Feb. 21 and 22, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter Inc., v. Taamneh, a set of companion cases dealing with the liability of platforms for terrorist material hosted on their services. The first case, G... |
| 10.02.2023 | Will you have to pay federal taxes on your California tax refund? | From CalMatters economy reporter Grace Gedye:
When gas prices were soaring in 2022 and Califorina’s state budget had a ballooning surplus, lawmakers decided to send relief payments to millions of residents to help with rising costs.
In rece... |
| 09.02.2023 | New Details Show Leak Of Supreme Court’s Roe Reversal Could Have Come From Pretty Much Anyone | The leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision helped everyone. It helped people who supported the overturning of Roe v. Wade consolidate their power so they could effectively punish people for trying to escape unwanted pregnancies. It help... |
| 02.02.2023 | John Eastman and the Limits of Bar Discipline | The memos prepared by John Eastman constitute some of the most shocking documentation of the plot to overturn the 2020 election in favor of Donald Trump. Eastman’s legal analysis sets out a range of supposed options by which, during the cer... |
| 19.01.2023 | Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States, Part 3: The Odd Executive Agreement Preemption Argument | Editor's Note: This is the third in a three-part series on oral arguments in Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States. Click here for part one and here for part two.
On Tuesday, Jan. 17, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Turkiye Ha... |
| 11.01.2023 | Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States, Part 1: The FSIA and Criminal Prosecutions | On Jan. 17, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States, a case that raises the question whether the U.S. government can criminally prosecute corporations owned by foreign states. The petitioner, ... |
| 02.01.2023 | 23 things we think will happen in 2023 | This will be the fourth year in a row that the staff of Future Perfect has given itself the task of trying to predict, well, the future. It’s in the name of the section, but forecasting is something that can benefit you as a thinker whether... |
| 19.12.2022 | The D.C. Circuit Holds the Power to Upend Hundreds of Prosecutions of Jan. 6 Rioters | It’s the morning of Dec. 12, and Courtroom 31 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is sparsely populated—a surprise given that the court is about to hear an appeal with the power to topple hundreds of prosecutio... |
| 08.12.2022 | A Crucial Appeal for Capitol Riot Prosecutions: D.C. Circuit to Hear Arguments Challenging the Felony Charge Used in 290 Cases | On Dec. 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear arguments in a case that holds the potential to upend literally hundreds of felony prosecutions stemming from the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
The matter i... |
| 08.11.2022 | The Supreme Court needs to uphold protection for Native American children | As an American Indian pediatrician working in my own tribal community, I know how important it is to ensure that children have connections to their culture and community to support their well-being. That is why I think it is essential that ... |
| 04.11.2022 | The “independent state legislature theory” will not empower state legislatures to override presidential election results | There is a misconception that needs to be clarified about the potential impact of an upcoming Supreme Court case.
That misconception is this—if the “independent state legislature theory” is adopted by the Supreme Court in the case of Moore ... |
| 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... |
| 27.10.2022 | Value Pluralism and Human Rights in Content Moderation | On Oct. 4, the Council of the European Union (EU) approved the new Digital Services Act (DSA). The EU’s new law regulates social media company liability for user posts containing content prohibited under the laws of EU member states—such as... |
| 24.10.2022 | In the 1950s, thousands of Native American children were placed in Mormon homes for 'racial assimilation.' Now, experts fear an upcoming Supreme Court ruling could allow that to happen again. | News Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.
Voices of Color In the 1950s, thousands of Native American children were placed in Mormon homes for 'racial assimilation.' Now, e... |
| 18.10.2022 | Ted Cruz reimbursed himself $555,000 after successfully challenging a political spending law at the Supreme Court | Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas at the US Capitol on September 29, 2022. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images
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Ted Cruz's campaign paid him $555,000 to cover old personal loans to his Senate committee.
It comes af... |
| 17.10.2022 | European Commission Says Pharma Company Teva Abused The Patent System To Violate Antitrust Laws | I always find it vaguely amusing when the government realizes that the system of monopoly rights it created is used to restrain competition. The latest is over in the EU, where the European Commission has gone after pharmaceutical giant Tev... |
| 13.10.2022 | What would Rob Bonta do next as California attorney general? | In summary
In an hour-long interview with CalMatters, Attorney General Rob Bonta talks about rising crime, affordable housing, concealed guns and other priorities if he wins a full term.
California’s attorney general is often described as t... |
| 12.10.2022 | Rational Security 2.0: The 'Wahoowa' Edition | This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by beloved Lawfare contributor and UVA Law professor Ashley Deeks, fresh from her latest stint at the White House. They hashed through some of the week's big national security news, including:
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| 12.10.2022 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Curing Bias or Causing It? Evaluating the White House AI Bill of Rights | It’s been a jam-packed week of cyberlaw news, but the big debate of the episode is triggered by the White House blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. I’ve just released a long post about the campaign to end “AI bias” in general, and the bluep... |
| 07.10.2022 | Before The Supreme Court Destroys The Internet, It Might First Destroy Art | So, we were just talking about the Supreme Court agreeing to take some cases that could determine the future of the internet (as in, potentially ruining it), but before that it may be on the path to could destroy some of the basics of art. ... |
| 05.10.2022 | SCOTUS Takes Case Examining Section 230 Protection for YouTube | (Photo: Adam Szuscik/Unsplash)The US Supreme Court has taken on a case that will test the true limitations of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The case, Reynaldo Gonzalez et al v. Google, questions whether YouTube can be held ... |
