Rebuke or Punishment Plus: Gustavo Gordillo's lies, measles among the Amish, Milo Yiannopoulos deported, and more... Reason · Aug 31
Anti-SLAPP Law Doesn't Apply to Foreign Speech by Foreigners The case is a decision by Judge Susan Illston (N.D. Cal.) Friday in Doe v. Deutsche Lufthansa AG (see also… The post Anti-SLAPP Law Doesn't Apply to Foreign Speech by Foreigners appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 31
Lawsuit Over Outing of Gay Saudi Residents by Lufthansa in Saudi Arabia Can Proceed [1.] First, the facts from an earlier decision in Doe v. Deutsche Lufthansa AG: John Doe and Robert Roe are… The post Lawsuit Over Outing of Gay Saudi Residents by Lufthansa in Saudi Arabia Can Proceed appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 31
Anthropic Win Reaffirms Private Sector's Right To Put Conditions on Government Dealings Trump administration officials didn’t try to hide that they were punishing the company for its views. Reason · Aug 31
Today in Supreme Court History: August 31, 1995 8/31/1995: Students at Santa Fe Independent School District voted to allow a student to say a prayer at football games.… The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 31, 1995 appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 31
The Belated Backlash Against Flock Cameras Americans are starting to recognize the dangers of pervasive surveillance by automated license plate readers. Reason · Aug 31
Brickbat: Burning Rubber The California Energy Commission (CEC) unanimously approved new tire-efficiency rules that are expected to ban about 70 percent of the replacement… The post Brickbat: Burning Rubber appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 31
New York Times Recycles Same Old Story About Northern District of Texas Yet the article inexplicably makes no mention of judge shopping in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Reason · Aug 30
What J.D. Vance Gets Wrong About Hamilton (and Markets and Milton Friedman) The Vice President's argument for more governmental intervention in the economy is based upon a morass of misunderstandings. Reason · Aug 30
An Actual SCOTUS Nightmare Recently, Justice Jackson warned about a "Kafkaesque nightmare" at the Supreme Court. Well, I had my own. Reason · Aug 30
Inside Venezuela's El Helicoide Prison: How Dissident Jesús Armas Endured Torture and Outlasted Maduro For helping prove that Maduro lost the 2024 election, Jesús Armas spent more than a year in Venezuela’s most-feared prison. He’s lucky it wasn’t more. Reason · Aug 30
First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Noncitizens, Court Rules Some short excerpts from the >35K-word decision by Judge Noël Wise (N.D. Cal.) in Stanford Daily Pub. Corp. v. Rubio:… The post First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Noncitizens, Court Rules appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Aug 29
Federal Court Rules Speech-Based Deportations Violate the First Amendment The decision goes further than other similar recent rulings. Reason · Aug 29
Lawmakers Want To Stop Kids From Nicknaming Their Pokémon The Safer GAMING Act would silence minors in every online game by default—and violate the First Amendment. Reason · Aug 29
Reason · Aug 29 9/11 Turbocharged America's Worst Foreign Policy Impulses—but Didn't Change Its Direction The United States' shift toward aggressive interventionism was well underway before the 2001 attacks.
Reason · Aug 28 Milo Yiannopoulos Wanted Millions Deported. He Didn't Mean Himself. "I mean bad immigrants," Yiannopoulos said in a 2016 interview with Joe Rogan. "I don't mean handsome, charming, successful, blonde-haired British immigrants."
Reason · Aug 28 Federal Judge Concludes Then-Candidate Trump's Attempt to Remove N.Y. Hush Money Non-Reporting Prosecution to Federal Court Came Too Late From the long opinion today by Judge Alvin Hellerstein (S.D.N.Y.) in People v. Trump: Defendant Donald J. Trump, President of… The post Federal Judge Concludes Then-Candidate Trump's Attempt to Remove N.Y. Hush Money Non-Reporting Prosecution to Federal Court Came Too Late appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Aug 28 The Fourth Amendment and Laws Requiring Video Recording Inside Stores A new Ninth Circuit ruling raises a number of hard issues.
Reason · Aug 28 The CIA Is Making AI-Generated Reports for Local Police The CIA has been using artificial intelligence to write “open source intelligence” analyses, which are being distributed to local police via DHS “fusion centers,” according to documents obtained by Reason.
Reason · Aug 28 Judge Says Trump's Clampdown on Anthropic Violates the First Amendment A judge ruled the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic was an unlawful, “arbitrary,” and “capricious” decision made to punish Anthropic.
Reason · Aug 28 Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal Fabricated identities, fictitious daycares, and made-up laws.
Reason · Aug 28 What the Twin Revolts Against Flock and Data Centers Tell Us About the Power and Risks of Populism What the simultaneous revolts against Flock and data centers can tell us about the power and risks of populism
Reason · Aug 28 "This Case Begins with a Viral Video" (and Goes on to Involve "the Anti-Doxing League") From today's decision by Judge Kyle Dudek (M.D. Fla.) in Noshirvan v. Couture (for a 2023 decision stemming from the… The post "This Case Begins with a Viral Video" (and Goes on to Involve "the Anti-Doxing League") appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Aug 28 Elon Musk's X Loses First Amendment Challenge to New York's 'Stop Hiding Hate Act' Musk's X Corp., along with other social media companies operating in the state, must disclose whether and how it defines hate speech and disinformation.
Reason · Aug 28 AI Companies Are Destroying Books. That's Not Nearly as Scary as It Sounds. Destructively scanning books is making information more accessible to the masses.