From a filing Monday in Johnson v. Dunn (N.D. Ala.), responding to an order from Judge Anna Manasco demanding an explanation for what she described as apparently “fabricated citations”: What happened here is unacceptable. Tempted by the convenience of artificial intelligence, counsel improperly used generative AI to supplement two motions and did not verify the […]
According to a recent news story, California’s raging home insurance woes are a result of climate change. That’s certainly true if the climate we’re talking about is the state’s regulatory climate. Like many of California’s problems, the insurance crisis is a self-inflicted wound—in this case, one suffered when residents and regulators turned a once-competitive market […]
Curtis Doughty, a former corrections officer at Henry County Jail in Indiana, pleaded guilty to deprivation of rights under color of law and received a two-year probation sentence for shooting an inmate in the back with a pepper ball. During a cell pod search, inma Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website […]
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During the last year of Donald Trump’s first term as president, drug-related deaths in the United States rose by 30 percent—the largest annual increase ever recorded. During Joe Biden’s final year as president, according to preliminary estimates reported last week, that death toll fell by 27 percent—another record. On the face of it, Biden did […]
Today, the Supreme Court granted Laurel Libby, a Maine state representative, an emergency injunction pending appeal. Justice Sotomayor would have denied the injunction, and Justice Jackson wrote a dissent. I wrote about this case nearly a month ago. Circuit Justice Jackson took her time to call for a response and set the deadline after the […]
A prison guard transfers Alien Enemies Act deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Mar. 16, 2025Â (El Salvador Presidential Press Office) Â An important new study by my Cato Institute colleague David Bier shows that most of the Venezuelan migrants deported to imprisonment […]
Justice Scalia once ridiculed the coastal elites on his Court who fail to represent the “vast expanse in-between.” Somewhere in that expanse is the city of Lubbock, Texas. Home to Texas Tech University, Lubbock is a five hour drive to Albuquerque or Dallas. At present, there is one active District Court Judge in the Lubbock […]
On Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court remanded A.A.R.P. v. Trump to the Fifth Circuit with very precise instructions. Today, the Fifth Circuit assigned the case to the next available oral argument panel: Last Friday, the Supreme Court vacated the judgment of our court, which had dismissed this appeal for lack of jurisdiction. The Court remanded the […]
New cars from Japanese automaker Subaru will reportedly increase in price by several hundred dollars in the coming weeks—and tariffs are the likely culprit. Officially, Subaru of America says it has “adjusted its pricing in response to current market conditions.” That’s what the company said in a statement to Reuters, which first reported on the […]