Brickbat: Heck of a Job, Hendrex
A arbitrator has ordered the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to reinstate an officer fired for hesitating to respond to a mass shooting at the Mandalay Bay casino in 2017. Bodycam …
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Divided PA Supreme Court: Governor can shut down firearms dealers during Coronavirus emergency
Last week, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf issued an order that closed all “non-life-sustaining businesses.” That order required licensed firearms dealers to shut down. In contrast, the Governor of Illinois defined …
“One … Trial Carries on While the Rest of the Justice System [in Southern Florida] Has Shut Down”
David Oskar Marcus (SDFLA Blog) reports (thanks to Howard Bashman at How Appealing for the pointer): As districts around the country issue orders postponing trials and as we await Chief …
“It Is Their Care in All the Ages to Take the Buffet and Cushion the Shock.”
The present unpleasantness—like other such social disruptions—made me think again about the people who make the infrastructure run: Both those who have set up the systems that make our lives …
Today in Supreme Court History: March 22, 1957
3/22/1957: Justice Charles Whittaker takes oath. ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil liberties, politics, technology, culture, …
How Bad Is Online Harassment?
In September, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an American organization that monitors attacks on freedom of the press worldwide, issued a report on what it called a major threat …
Grading in the Time of Coronavirus
The Covid-19 pandemic is creating lots of challenges to business-as-usual. Legal education is no exception. Courses are moving online, and professors and students alike are being forced to adapt. As …
‘It’s a Very Large Package’: Coronavirus Stimulus Plan Now Costs More Than $1 Trillion
The coronavirus stimulus package, a series of financial measures meant to provide relief to Americans in the face of the pandemic, will likely exceed the original $1 trillion price tag, …
Scaling Standards
In two recent posts, I blogged about the proposal from my article, Random Selection for Scaling Standards, With Applications to Climate Change, but in the blog posts, I used COVID-19 …
States Can’t Shut Down Non-Essential Businesses Without Harming Essential Ones
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) issued one of the more sweeping responses to the COVID-19 outbreak on Thursday evening: he ordered all “non-life-preserving” businesses in the state to close, indefinitely. …