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Americans are increasingly optimistic about their ability to attain the American Dream, according to a new survey.

"[T]he heart of the district court's analysis in denying Brooks's initial motion was its conclusion that the litigation would not require Brooks to disclose the information that he had filed under seal. But, in some respects, the district court's order did just that—it put the information that Brooks had filed…

An Alabama grand jury has indicted Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith on six misdemeanor charges, and Chief Deputy Ralph Williams… The post Brickbat: Friends in High Places appeared first on Reason.com.

The belief that limited government best protects individual rights turned out to be America’s secret sauce.

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, rude, and insulting").

From yesterday's decision of the Iowa court of Appeals in Cue v. State, written by Judge Tyler Buller and joined… The post Don't Plead History and Bruen in Cruel and Unusual Punishment Challenge to Long Prison Sentence for Rape, When Rape Was Historically a Capital Crime appeared first on Reason.com.

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.