From last week’s decision in Ziade v. Abdullah by the Nevada Court of Appeals (Chief Judge Bonnie Bulla and Judges Michael Gibbons and Deborah Westbrook) Ziade, a Las Vegas resident, and … Abdullah, a Canadian citizen residing in California, were in a long distance online relationship for approximately five months before Abdullah relocated to Las […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) highly anticipated “click-to-cancel” rule on Tuesday after the court found that the commission had not followed proper procedures in setting the regulations. The commission announced its notice of proposed rule making in March 2023 to rescue consumers “from seemingly never-ending […]
The pork-barrel spending of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) doesn’t just fund terrestrial programs like military spending and immigration enforcement, it also rockets taxpayer money to outer space. Under the bill, which the president signed into law on Friday, NASA will receive nearly $10 billion, $7.4 billion of which will be […]
From Pecos River Talc LLC v. Emory, decided Tuesday by Magistrate Judge Robert Krask (E.D. Va.): Pecos River Talc LLC … sued defendants, Drs. Theresa Emory, John Maddox, and Richard Kradin, alleging that certain statements they made in an article published in a scientific journal about cosmetic talc, asbestos, and malignant mesothelioma were false. The […]
Illustration: Lex Villena; Lev Kropotov Next year is the 100th anniversary of Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty, the Supreme Court decision upholding exclusionary zoning. I think Euclid is one of the worst supreme Court decisions ever, and exclusionary zoning – and the resulting massive housing shortage of which it is the biggest cause – […]
In a Congress addicted to bad ideas and bloated spending—something we saw again last week—it’s rare to find a tax policy with broad, bipartisan support that also happens to be good policy. Health Savings Accounts (HSA) are one of those rare gems. They promote individual responsibility, reduce health care costs, and enjoy overwhelming support from […]
Trump comes to Bolsonaro’s aid:Â President Donald Trump has, at times, claimed that his tariffs are due to other countries’ unfair trade practices: “We are going to have 10 percent to 20 percent tariffs on foreign countries that have been ripping us off for years, we are going to charge them 10 percent to 20 percent […]
From Thomas Starkie’s 1813 libel law treatise, pp. 199-200 (some paragraph breaks added): Were every malicious and oppressive act to be considered illegal, the law would be very agreeable to the theorist, but utterly unfit for the practical purposes of society, on account of the infinite perplexity and uncertainty which would occur in distinguishing between […]
7/10/1832: President Jackson vetoes the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States. He wrote that the bill was unconstitutional. President Andrew Jackson The post Today in Supreme Court History: July 10, 1832 appeared first on Reason.com. Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians […]
The U.S. Constitution requires the president to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Yet President Donald Trump has not only refused to enforce the federal law banning TikTok, but his administration has also told multiple tech companies that they may openly violate the TikTok ban “without incurring any legal liability” because the Department […]