How to Beat Legalized Larceny
Six months after the Drug Enforcement Administration stole $43,000 from Stacy Jones at a North...
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Texas Bill Would Require Conviction Before Asset Forfeiture, Opt Out of Federal Program
AUSTIN, Texas (Nov. 20, 2020) – A bill prefiled in the Texas House for the 2021 legislative...
Read MoreRestrict Asset Forfeiture
In this month’s issue, we draw on decades of Reason journalism about policing and criminal justice to make practical suggestions about how to use the momentum of this summer’s tumultuous protests productively. Check...
Read MoreFlorida Leads the Way on 2020 Occupational Licensing Reforms
Occupational licensing reform had another big, bipartisan year in state capitols—but no state cut more red tape than Florida. On the last day of June, Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed the most sweeping occupational...
Read MoreStatus Report: End the Fed from the Bottom Up
For the first time ever, data from the Treasury Department’s forfeiture database has been put through a detailed study regarding airport seizures, thanks for a multi-year legal battle by the Institute for Justice. Covering 2000...
Read MoreAirport Robbery: Feds Take Over $2 Billion from Travelers through Asset Forfeiture
For the first time ever, data from the Treasury Department’s forfeiture database has been put through a detailed study regarding airport seizures, thanks for a multi-year legal battle by the Institute for Justice. Covering 2000...
Read MoreMinnesota Bill Would Reform Asset Forfeiture Process, Opt Out of Federal Program
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (July 21, 2020) – A bill introduced in the Minnesota House would make some reforms to the state’s asset forfeiture process and close a federal loophole that allows police to bypass strict state asset...
Read MoreThis Health Care Law Bars Competition And Drives Up Prices, Even as a Pandemic Rages
COVID-19 has forced doctors to postpone many types of surgeries, but some things can’t wait. Ophthalmologist Jay Singleton saw one man at risk of permanent blindness on a recent Friday evening in New Bern, North Carolina....
Read More‘Music City’ Finally Legalizes Home Studio Businesses
Nashville, Tennessee, has repealed its longstanding prohibition on client visits to home businesses, a policy that effectively banned Music City’s home studio recording industry. These studio owners, alongside thousands of...
Read MoreFlorida Just Passed the Most Sweeping Occupational Licensing Reform in History
Sweeping reforms signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday will loosen or abolish occupational licensing regulations across more than 30 professions, cutting red tape for potentially thousands of workers in the...
Read MoreHouse Passes Policing Reform Package, Including Provision That Would End Qualified Immunity
The Democrat-led House of Representatives passed a package of criminal justice legislation Thursday night, largely along party lines, to address nationwide protests and demands for policing reforms following the killing of...
Read MoreIndiana Returns Land Rover Seized in Landmark Asset Forfeiture Case—But Continues the Legal Battle Over its Ultimate Fate
After a seven-year legal battle that resulted in a decision by the US Supreme Court and two (so far) by the Indiana State Supreme Court, the state of Indiana has finally returned a $40,000 land rover owned by Tyson Timbs, which...
Read MoreFDA Backs Away From Absurd ‘Skim Milk’ Legal Fight
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given dairies and creameries the official permission to label their skim milk as “skim milk.” Huzzah! An explanation is warranted, obviously. By any conventional definition,...
Read MoreRhode Island Bill Would Require Conviction Before Asset Forfeiture, Opt Out of Federal Program
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (March 17, 2020) – A bill introduced in the Rhode Island Senate would reform the state’s asset forfeiture laws to require a criminal conviction in most cases and also opt the state out of a federal program that...
Read MoreTo the Governor: West Virginia Bill to Require Strict Asset Forfeiture Reporting
CHARLESTON, W. Va. (March 13, 2020) – Last week, the West Virginia House gave final approval to a bill that would impose strict reporting requirements for all asset forfeitures in the state. Enactment of the bill would take the...
Read MoreNew Hampshire House Passes Bill to Opt Out of Federal Asset Forfeiture Program
CONCORD, N.H. (March 12, 2020) – Yesterday, New Hampshire House passed a bill that would close a loophole allowing state and local police to circumvent more stringent state asset forfeiture laws by passing cases off to the...
Read MoreArizona Senate Passes Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture
PHOENIX, Ariz. (March 12, 2020) – Yesterday, the Arizona Senate unanimously passed a bill that would reform the state’s asset forfeiture laws to prohibit the state from taking a person’s property without a criminal conviction....
Read MoreDEA Returns $82K Life Savings It Seized From an Elderly Pittsburgh Man and His Daughter
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has returned more than $82,000 that it seized from an elderly Pittsburgh man and his daughter after a federal class-action lawsuit was filed on their behalf last month. The Institute for...
Read MoreOregon Tried To Silence This Engineer’s Red Light Camera Research. Now Experts Say He Was Right All Along.
More than five years after Mats Järlström was threatened with fines for presenting data that challenged Oregon’s red light camera program, his research has changed the way traffic engineers will calculate the timing of...
Read MoreInnocent Mom Gave Permission for Cops to Search Her Home, They Destroyed It With Grenades Instead
Attorneys with the Institute for Justice are asking the US Supreme court to hold cops accountable for raid that destroyed an innocent woman’s home with grenades. This post has been republished with permission from a...
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