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Does a dead horse have a right to self-defense when beaten?
Robert Pitman, federal district judge, has issued an order for Texas’s social media law to be enforced. In this episode, the ruling sparks a fight […]
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“Collecting $20M in Royalties from YouTube, Using Forged Letters to Falsely Claim They Represented Artists”
MarketWatch (Lukas I. Alpert) reports, based on this indictment (U.S. v. Fernandez). “Prosecutors say [two]Men claimed the rights to Spanish-language songs in 50,000 different languages. They […]
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Jussie Smollett Tries To Convince the Court ‘There Was No Hoax’
Taking a page out of the Kyle Rittenhouse playbook—though with a very different outcome likely in store—former Enterourage Jussie, the movie star Jussie Mollett, testified Monday at […]
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Police Tase Man in His Home After Relative Calls Fire and Rescue for a Drug-Related Emergency
Travis Richardson sued Virginia officers for assault, battery and excessive force. After Richardson denied permission for them to search his home for suboxone, the officers […]
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Teacher Suspended Partly for Quoting (on Personal Facebook Page) Bernie Sanders’ “Woman … Fantasizes Being Raped” Essay
Duval County School Board v. Caggiano, decided Nov. 15, 2021, a Florida Division of Administrative Hearings ALJ recommended discipline—three-day suspension without pay and requirement “to […]
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A New Opportunity for the Government To Screw Up Abortion Law
Matt Welch (with Katherine Manguward and Peter Suderman), and Nick Gillespie talk about a new vaccine mandate, as well as a new case of abortion […]
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If Roe Gets Overruled, Abortion Policy may not be “Left to the States”
The oral argument was heard last week Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health OrganizationIt was clear that there are good chances the Supreme Court will overturn, […]
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“Trouble Brewing [at Yale] After ‘Dehumanizing’ Artisanal Coffee Remark”
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Adam Goldstein & Peter Bonilla) reports: [A]An interesting case in which Dr. Sally Satel is a Yale School […]
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An Evaluation of Religious Exemptions from COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements
Nathan Chapman, and I wrote an assessment of religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccination requirements. These exemptions are not legal. Instead, the question we take up […]
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Maryland Democrats Hate Gerrymandering So Much, They’re Trying To Eliminate the State’s Lone Republican District
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D–Md.) Here are some thoughts on gerrymandering by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) Raskin submitted an explanation to the U.S. Supreme Court when […]