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Lincoln, Douglas, and the Law
Pat Smith comments at Ius & Iustitium on my prior post on originalism and positive law, comparing it to Stephen Douglas’s studied neutrality on the […]
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D.C. Circuit Rejects Trump Effort to Block Release of Documents to January 6 Committee
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. Circuit denied Donald Trump’s request to a preliminary injunction barring the Archivist from disclosing documents required […]
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Will Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers Be First to Reach the Supreme Court?
A divided U.S. Court of Appeals panel denied Florida’s motion to injunct the Biden Administration interim rule requiring Medicare providers and Medicaid providers make sure […]
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Architecture and the First Amendment Before the Supreme Court
This is what I wrote in June. Burns v. Town of Palm Beach. The case raised a persistent conflict between property law and constitutional laws: Is […]
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The ACLU’s Push To ‘Cancel’ Student Debt Shows How Far It Has Strayed From Defending Civil Liberties
Are student loans forgiven, 92% of which are held by federal government? While I do not believe that this policy is fair or reasonable, I […]
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Federal Drug Laws Force Pot Shops To Carry Lots of Cash and No Insurance. Now They’re Getting Robbed.
In recent weeks, several Bay Area businesses were robbed in smash-and-grab robberies. Oakland’s cannabis businesses were particularly hard hit. To make matters worse, these cannabis […]
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No Qualified Immunity as to Alleged Deliberate Omission of Key Facts from Arrest Warrant
Starting at Laviage v. Fite), a decision made last week by Judge Lynn Hughes, (S.D. Tex.) (Tex.) Houston Chronicle (Jay R. Jordan)): Dennis Laviage is […]
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California Stops Requiring Academic Prerequisites for Horseshoeing Schools
Press release from the Institute for Justice: After more than four years of litigation, Bob Smith and Pacific Coast Horseshoeing School (PCHS) are free to […]
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Feds Pledge $30 Million To Fund Drug Harm Reduction Programs
Federal government announces the launch of $30 million, three-year grant fund to aid in drug addiction reduction. America has a record-breaking number of drug overdose […]
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Religious Freedom Doesn’t Bar Discovery in Libel Case By High-Level N.H. Catholic Priest Against Dissenting Group
Start at De Laire v. VorisToday, Joseph A. DiClerico, Jr., voted in favor of the. (D.N.H.): [D]E Laire claims that defendants published defamatory materials and […]