A new episode of the Academic Freedom Podcast has been released. The podcast is sponsored by the Academic Freedom Alliance and the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Yale Law School. This episode features a conversation with David Cole about the current situation at Columbia University. David Cole is the Honorable George J. […]
An excerpt from the long Roe v. Critchfield, decided last week by Ninth Circuit Judge Morgan Christen, joined by Judges Kim McLane Wardlaw and Mark J. Bennett: Before the summer of 2023, public school districts in Idaho were free to adopt their own policies regarding students’ access to [multi-occupancy] restrooms, locker rooms, and shower rooms. […]
A few months after Georgia mother Brittany Patterson was arrested for not knowing that her son, age 10, had walked to the store on his own, the state passed a Reasonable Childhood Independence law. It now goes to the governor for signing. The bill clarifies that “neglect” is only when you put your child in […]
Under Arizona’s Constitution, state legislators are immune from traffic tickets during and around legislative sessions. But after several legislators used the law to get away with reckless speeding, a new proposal is looking to change the law. The resolution, HCR2053, would amend the part of the Arizona Constitution that gives lawmakers immunity “from arrest in […]
Yesterday Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas set a trial date (June 23rd) in United State v. Boeing. The case concerns a long-pending federal criminal charge filed against Boeing for conspiring to defraud the FAA. Boeing has reportedly been dragging its heels about pleading guilty. Boeing has […]
A short excerpt from today’s long decision by Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil (S.D.N.Y.) in The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC: The Satanic Temple, Inc. … [sued] Newsweek Magazine LLC … [for alleged defamation] in the article titled “Orgies, Harassment, Fraud: Satanic Temple Rocked by Accusations, Lawsuit” published by Newsweek. After this Court’s [earlier] […]
From Chief Judge Eric Melgren’s opinion yesterday in Schmidt v. Huff (D. Kan.): Gardner Edgerton High School is a part of USD 231 and is located in Johnson County, Kansas. USD 231’s Superintendent is Defendant Brian Huff. Plaintiff Carrie Schmidt is the mother of two students, a sophomore and a senior, who attend Gardner Edgerton […]
You don’t have to be more Catholic than the Pope, as the saying goes. But over the past week, an accidental leak to The Atlantic has transformed journalists into bigger defenders of government secrecy than the government itself. It has created the bizarre situation of journalists asking the White House to keep them away from […]
Are state bar licensing requirements just a barrier to entry that reduces the quantity and increases the cost of legal services? Do they also improve the quality of legal services and protect consumers? Count me among those who is generally skeptical of state occupational licensing requirements. So I read with interest a new study bt […]
The arc of history is weird: Here we are, over 50 years after whatever it was that people call the sexual revolution, long past the anti-porn crusade of the late 20th century, a few decades out from third-wave feminists embracing sex positivity and slut walks, and well into an age of hookup apps, OnlyFans, and […]