Brickbat: Watch Your Attitude, Granny
In London, the Metropolitan Police said it is investigating after officers handcuffed a 91-year-old woman, put a spit hood over her head, and pointed a Taser at her. Police were …
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Against the “Banana Republic” Critique of Indicting Trump
Earlier today, the Justice Department indicted Donald Trump on 37 counts related to his retention of classified documents after leaving office in January 2021. A good many Republicans have reacted …
Private Employers May Not Fire Employees for Writing to the Legislature, Tennessee Court Holds
In Smith v. BlueCross BlueShield of Tenn., decided today by the Court of Appeals of Tennessee (in an opinion by Chief Judge Michael Swiney, joined by Judges John McClarty and …
Brickbat: Great Balls of Fire
Osceola County, Florida, sheriff’s Deputy David Crawford has been charged with misdemeanor culpable negligence with personal injury after firing his Taser at a man covered in gasoline, causing the man …
Brickbat: Say Cheese
A government official in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh was suspended after he ordered the Kherkatta dam reservoir drained so he could retrieve his phone. Food inspector Rajesh Vishwas dropped …
On Bears With Video Cameras and Fourth Amendment Law
Ilya recently flagged the civil suit recently filed in federal court in which the complaint alleged that Connecticut officials violated a couple’s Fourth Amendment rights by releasing camera-carrying bears in …
An Un-Bearable Fourth Amendment/Property Rights Case
Bear No. 119 (the alleged perpetrator of a Fourth Amendment violation). A case recently filed in a federal district court in Connecticut alleges that a state government agency violated …
Monday Open Thread
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Libel Case Against Entertainers T.I. & Tiny (of VH1’s T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle) Can Go Forward
From Peterson v. Harris, decided Friday by the California Court of Appeal, in an opinion by L.A. Superior Court Judge Audra Mori, joined by Justice Audrey Collins and L.A. Superior …
Trump Reportedly Viewed a Supposedly Declassified Document As a Secret He Was Not Allowed To Share
During Donald Trump’s CNN town hall last month, moderator Kaitlan Collins asked him about the hundreds of classified documents he took with him when he left the White House in …