The Cyberlaw Podcast: Here’s the evidence
In the 2020s, one fears, everyone will feature in a conspiracy theory for fifteen minutes. In an effort to get in front of this development, and the inevitable Twitter mob …
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Today in Supreme Court History: May 31, 1860
5/31/1860: Justice Peter Daniel’s death. Justice Peter Daniel ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil liberties, …
Police and Rioters Get Violent at Protests in Cities Nationwide
Yet another wave of protests has rocked America’s cities tonight in response to the Monday death of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota police. Mayors have imposed curfews, and …
Emergency Orders Can’t Last Forever
Chief Justice Roberts issued an unusual concurring opinion last night to the Court’s denial of injunctive relief to churches objecting to California Governor Newsom’s public health orders. On the one …
Police Unions and the Problem of Police Misconduct
The Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd had a history of misconduct. According to news reports, he had previously been placed on leave after using lethal force and was …
Wild Rock Doc Laurel Canyon Travels Back to L.A.’s Stellar ’60s Scene
Laurel Canyon. Epix. Sunday, May 31, 10 p.m. Right out of Tucson, Arizona, where they were biggest band around, the members of Alice Cooper were getting a rough reception as they …
“An Employer [May] Legitimately Fire an Employee if It Honestly Believes That the Employee Falsified [Sexual Harassment] Allegations”
From Carrethers v. McCarthy (nonprecedential), decided Thursday by the Sixth Circuit (Judges Griffin, Thapar, and Readler): The Army fired Lorraine Carrethers (a civilian employee) after it concluded that her complaints …
Today in Supreme Court History: May 30, 1865
5/30/1865: Justice John Catron dies. Justice John Catron [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sCJVyZDCUo?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism …
Scary Stories About Vaping Aren’t Helping Anyone
Quit Vaping: Your Four-Step, 28-Day Program To Stop Smoking E-Cigarettes, by Brad Lamm, Penguin, 256 pages, $16 They say a lie will go ’round the world while truth is pulling …
Did Chief Justice Roberts signal his Harry Blackmun moment?
A few moments ago, I blogged about South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom. Here, I will make three more observations about Chief Justice Roberts’s concurrence. First, Roberts’s concurrence brought …