Shouting Down a Speaker Isn’t “Lawful Activity”
In Oransky v. Martin Marietta Materials, Inc., 2019 WL 4242670 (D. Colo. Sept. 6, 2019), Paula Oransky was fired by Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. She sued, claiming (among other things) …
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Justice Ginsburg Speaks Sensibly about Judicial Confirmations
Speaking at the University of Chicago, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lamented the current politicized and polarized approach to judicial confirmations. During the hourlong event, Ginsburg also lamented the increasingly partisan …
Elizabeth Warren’s Plans Don’t Add Up
At the heart of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for president—and of her entire career as a politician and public intellectual, really—are two simple ideas. The first is that the economy is …
From the Archives: October 2019
15 Years Ago October 2004 “In the beginning, supporters of No Child Left Behind argued that its problems were just a matter of districts’ adjusting to the new law. But …
Brickbat: Running Out the Clock
A Custer County, S.D., woman has sued Sheriff Marty Mechaley, Deputy Matthew Tramp and other members of the sheriff’s office for violating her civil rights through their negligence in protecting …
Creeping a Little Faster Toward Impeachment
I first became interested in high-profile federal impeachments in the early 1990s. I had my reasons. They eventually became a central component of my one of my first books on …
Scraping A Public Website Doesn’t Violate the CFAA, Ninth Circuit (Mostly) Holds
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down a groundbreaking decision today on the federal computer hacking law, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). In HiQ Labs v. …
Bankrupting National Security?
Camille Stewart talks in this episode about a little-known national security risk: China’s propensity to acquire US technology through the bankruptcy courts—and the many ways in which the bankruptcy system …
My New Article on the Supreme Court’s Recent Decision in Knick v. Township of Scott—an Important Takings Case
Rose Mary Knick, the plaintiff in Knick v. Township of Scott, with her lawyers from the Pacific Legal Foundation. (Pacific Legal Foundation). My new Cato Supreme Court Review article on …
Democrats’ Anti-Scientific Climate Dystopias
Judging by last week’s six-hour CNN presidential candidate town hall on climate change, the rough Democratic consensus is that we’ve got 12 years until DOOM—and that we should probably ban …