Reason Today’s decision by Judge Jon S. Tigar in Ogilvie v. Gordon (N.D. Cal.) concludes that the personalized license plates (unlike license plate background designs) are private speech, not government speech: …
As regular readers know, I’ve been writing, blogging, and litigating about the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for over twenty years. The Supreme Court is hearing …
If there was any doubt that the Trump administration will seize on any and every pretext to slam immigrants, it should be put to rest now. The Immigration and Customs …
Seattle is back in the business of taxing big business two years after it passed, then repealed, its controversial ‘Amazon Tax.’ On Monday, the Seattle City Council voted 7-2 to …
Today, on what appears to be the penultimate day of the current Supreme Court term, the justices handed down two decisions supportive of religious liberty and conscience, both by lopsided …
As Congress and the White House debate whether to spend another trillion or so dollars to help the U.S. economy survive the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic slump, President Donald Trump’s advisors …
“Churches Were Eager to Reopen,” says the headline over a story in today’s New York Times. “Now They Are a Major Source of Coronavirus Infections.” The not-so-subtle subtext: Reopening churches was …
I’m not usually a fan of the saying “a hit dog will holler,” which basically boils down to “if someone responds angrily to an accusation, they are probably guilty.” Sometimes, …
In Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2012), a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court held that the “ministerial exception” to federal anti-discrimination law shielded a parochial …
It’s not often that a government agency admits that its mission is doomed, but that’s what the Massachusetts Department of Revenue’s Illegal Tobacco Task Force is doing with regard to …