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String-Instruments-Only City Rule for Restaurant's Outdoor Music Is Unconstitutional Content-Based Restriction

From Red, White & Booze, LLC v. City of St. Pete Beach, decided yesterday by Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle (M.D.… The post String-Instruments-Only City Rule for Restaurant's Outdoor Music Is Unconstitutional Content-Based Restriction appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · Sep 17, 2025

No First Amendment Right to Wear Graduation Stole Displaying Star of David, Israeli Flag, U.S. Army Insignia

From Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Thursday's Bar-Levy v. Cruze: Yaakov Bar-Levy, a senior at West Port High School,… The post No First Amendment Right to Wear Graduation Stole Displaying Star of David, Israeli Flag, U.S. Army Insignia appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · Jun 2, 2025

Appellate Court Dismisses Case Challenging CDC Transportation Mask Mandate Because it has Become Moot

A case that began with a bang ends with a whimper. The issue of whether the CDC has the power to impose mask mandates remains unresolved.

Reason · Jun 23, 2023

Sweeping, limited or no powers at all? What’s at stake in the mask mandate appeal

The definition of “sanitation.” An old court case that involves an underwear manufacturer. Whether people had a fair chance to express their opinions about wearing masks on planes.

Tribune News Service · May 9, 2022

Commentary: Abolish the courts’ wanton use of nationwide injunctions

One federal district court judge should not be able to halt a federal government policy for the entire country. Yet that is exactly what happened when Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, in Tampa, Florida, ended the mandate for masks on airplanes, in airports, and on other forms of mass transportation. Within…

Los Angeles Times · Apr 29, 2022

That wasn’t the first COVID-19 ruling out of Tampa’s federal courthouse

TAMPA, Fla. — In a blockbuster ruling last week, federal judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down a requirement that people wear masks on public transportation including planes to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Tribune News Service · Apr 28, 2022

Anthony Fauci embodies arrogance of technocrats who think they know what’s best

Fauci’s beef is not simply with the way COVID-19 policy happened to play out in the United States; it is an objection to our system of government.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 27, 2022

Anthony Fauci Thinks Scientific Expertise Trumps the Rule of Law

The president’s COVID-19 adviser embodies the arrogance of technocrats who are sure they know what’s best for us.

Reason · Apr 27, 2022

Editorial: A Trump judge rated ‘not qualified’ got it wrong on masks

COVID-19 caught the United States unprepared and unwilling in some ways to defend itself against the viral pandemic that has now taken nearly a million American lives. More than 400,000 had been lost by the time Joe Biden, on his first day as president, ordered face-masking across an array of…

Tribune News Service · Apr 26, 2022

Editorial: A sensible shift away from COVID mask mandates

Last week, a video taken on a JetBlue airplane went viral. It wasn’t what we’ve come to expect from this genre of content: there was no person behaving badly, or causing a scene. Instead, it was the pilot of a JetBlue plane telling customers they were allowed to fly mask-free,…

Tribune News Service · Apr 26, 2022