Another NIMBY Lawsuit Seeks To End New York City Outdoor Dining Program
A new lawsuit could end New York City’s popular outdoor dining program. The suit, which names New York City and New York State as defendants, was filed last week by …
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Prof. John Harrison: Courts Are Not Agencies
This is the fifth and last in in a series of posts summarizing an article titled Remand Without Vacatur and the Ab Initio Invalidity of Unlawful Regulations in Administrative Law, …
Brittney Griner’s 9.5-Year Sentence Is Harsh Even By Russian Standards
Brittney Griner was sentenced to 9.5 years in a Russian penal colony on Thursday. The WNBA player was detained on February 17 after officials reportedly found hashish oil cartridges and …
Researchers Create Artificial Eggs, Chimeric Sperm, and Synthetic Embryos
Artificial eggs created using skin cells, sperm generated from implanted stem cells, and synthetic embryos are all recent breakthroughs made by different teams of researchers in the field of reproductive …
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. SCOTUSblog petition of the week: Does the Fourteenth Amendment …
He Was Arrested for Promoting Jury Nullification. A Federal Court Says That Was Illegal.
A man was wrongfully arrested for standing outside a Bronx courthouse handing out flyers about jury nullification, the practice where juries render “not guilty” verdicts despite overwhelming evidence of guilt, …
AI Can’t Be an “Inventor” Under the U.S. Patent Act
From Thaler v. Vidal, decided today by the Federal Circuit (Judge Tony Leonard Stark, joined by Chief Judge Kimberly Moore and Judge Richard Taranto): This case presents the question of …
New Jobs Report Shows Unemployment Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels
A jobs report released today by the federal government shows that employment has mostly recovered from the dark days of COVID-induced mass joblessness and that inflation may get worse. The …
Protesters Declare ‘Housing Is a Human Right’ While Marching Against New Housing Construction
On Wednesday, protesters flooded People’s Park in Berkeley, California, chanting, “Housing is a human right, fight, fight, fight!” The reason the crowd was protesting? The University of California, Berkeley, was …
Court Upholds Bioweapons Conviction for ‘Shit Talking’ About Licking Groceries
COVID misinformation not protected speech. A man who lied on Facebook about paying someone with COVID to lick items at a grocery store is not protected by the First Amendment, …