This Innocent Woman Is on the Hook for Thousands After a SWAT Team Destroyed Her Home An error-prone investigation in search of a fugitive led police to Amy Hadley's house. Reason · Dec 20, 2023
5th Circuit Reluctantly Rules Against Victim of a Prosecutor Who Was Also a Law Clerk Ralph Petty's "conflicted dual-hat arrangement" as an advocate and an adjudicator was "utterly bonkers," Judge Don Willett notes. Reason · Dec 18, 2023
Hunter Biden's Lawyers Say the Gun Ban He Violated Is Unconstitutional, Widely Flouted, and Rarely Enforced The president's son is seeking dismissal of three felony charges based on his illegal 2018 firearm purchase. Reason · Dec 14, 2023
Civil Rights Groups Urge Federal Appeals Court To Strike Down Mississippi's Jim Crow–Era Felon Voting Ban A broad coalition of civil rights groups and think tanks, including Reason Foundation, say that Mississippi's "mandatory, permanent, and effectively irrevocable" voting ban for certain offenders violates the Constitution. Reason · Dec 14, 2023
What's at Stake in the Supreme Court's Abortion Pill Case The Court announced today that it would take up a case involving access to the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone. Reason · Dec 13, 2023
Do You Still Have the Right to a Jury Trial? The Supreme Court will consider whether federal agencies’ administrative judges violate the Seventh Amendment. Reason · Nov 28, 2023
Appeals court frees attorney from having to join, pay dues to Louisiana bar association, for now A federal appeals court says a Louisiana lawyer who objected to the state bar association’s public statements on health tips and LGBTQ rights, among other topics, cannot be forced to join or pay dues to the association The Independent UK · Nov 15, 2023
He Was Strip-Searched and Jailed for Criticizing Cops. Now He's Fighting Back in Court. In an apparent case of retaliation by humiliation, Jerry Rogers Jr. was arrested for speaking out about a stalled murder investigation. Reason · Nov 9, 2023
Due Process Demands Stricter Standards for Restraining Orders That Negate Gun Rights In an upcoming Supreme Court case, the Cato Institute argues that the "threadbare procedures" required by federal law provide inadequate protection for constitutional rights. Reason · Nov 6, 2023
Appeals court considers whether Texas teens should be allowed contraception without parental consent under federal program Last year, Judge Matthew Kacmsaryk closed off one of the only avenues for Texas teens to get confidential contraception. The 5th Circuit on Monday considered arguments in the case. The Texas Tribune · Nov 6, 2023
Louisiana Mother of Autistic Child Hit by Teacher Files Supreme Court Petition School officials in three states are effectively immune from lawsuits over excessive corporal punishment. A Louisiana mother is asking the Supreme Court to step in. Reason · Oct 27, 2023
SCOTUS Will Decide When the Government's Social Media Meddling Violates the First Amendment The justices agreed to consider whether the Biden administration's efforts to suppress online "misinformation" were unconstitutional. Reason · Oct 22, 2023
Supreme Court to decide case on social media content moderation outreach - Roll Call Justices also blocked a lower court injunction that would have restricted the Biden administration’s ability to communicate with social media companies. Roll Call · Oct 20, 2023
Supreme Court keeps a pause on redrawing of Louisiana congressional map - Roll Call The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to allow a lower court to move forward with redrawing Louisiana’s congressional map. Roll Call · Oct 19, 2023
Reason · Oct 4, 2023 Defenders of the Florida and Texas Social Media Laws Contradict Themselves If Facebook et al. are pushing a "radical leftist narrative," why don’t they have a constitutional right to do that?
WEKU · Oct 2, 2023 Supreme Court to consider abortion pills, guns, social media in its new term In one form or another, all those questions are back on the table this term — mainly to take a second look at appeals from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Texas and parts the South.
The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2023 The Supreme Court will take up abortion and gun cases in its new term while ethics concerns swirl The Supreme Court is returning to a new term with familiar topics such as guns and abortion, as well as concerns about ethics swirling around the justices
Roll Call · Sep 29, 2023 Supreme Court to hear arguments on funding for financial protection agency - Roll Call The Biden administration wants justices to overturn a ruling that invalidated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding structure.
Roll Call · Sep 28, 2023 Supreme Court to weigh cases on guns, regulations and redistricting in new term - Roll Call The Supreme Court starts a new term Monday with cases that will test how far the conservative majority could reshape the nation’s laws.
Reason · Sep 21, 2023 A Former Twitter Executive's Highly Selective Concern About 'Coercive Influences' on Social Media Yoel Roth worries about government meddling in content moderation, except when Democrats target "misinformation."
Reason · Sep 11, 2023 The 5th Circuit Agrees That Federal Officials Unconstitutionally 'Coerced' or 'Encouraged' Online Censorship The appeals court narrowed a preliminary injunction against such meddling but confirmed the threat that it poses to freedom of speech.
Reason · Sep 7, 2023 Former Prisoner Can Sue Officials Who Illegally Detained Him for 2 Months, 5th Circuit Says The case is just one example of miscalculations that routinely keep Louisiana prisoners behind bars after they complete their sentences.
Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 30, 2023 Time to extinguish the claim that you can’t yell ‘fire in a crowded theater’ A court decision against a Louisiana man who made a COVID joke illustrates the continuing influence of a misbegotten, century-old analogy that is frequently used as an excuse to punish or censor constitutionally protected speech.
Reason · Aug 30, 2023 A Ruling Against a Man Arrested for a COVID-19 Joke Highlights the Influence of a Pernicious Analogy A federal judge compared Waylon Bailey’s Facebook jest to "falsely shouting fire in a theatre."
Reason · Aug 28, 2023 'No Reasonable Officer' Would Have Arrested a Guy for a COVID-19 Joke, the 5th Circuit Says The appeals court ruled that a Facebook post alluding to World War Z was clearly protected by the First Amendment.