June 8, 2023 1:59 pm
Submit Your Articles to the Journal of Free Speech Law, Before You Circulate Them to the Law Reviews
We’ll give you an answer within 14 days, and we can publish them within several weeks, if you’d like.
Tags: free speech, REASON
June 8, 2023 1:54 pm
Court Clears Colorado Day Care Worker Accused of Child Abuse After Mundane Incident
“All I’ve been able to see for a little while was this trial,” says Amy Lovato.
June 8, 2023 12:20 pm
Supreme Court Sides With Jack Daniel’s Against Doggy Chew Toy Company
It’s not a broad attack on free expression, but Thursday’s ruling is certainly a victory for brands that can’t take a joke.
Tags: First Amendment, free speech, REASON, Supreme Court
June 8, 2023 11:45 am
Virginia Wildlife Agents Came Onto His Land and Stole His Camera. Now He’s Suing.
Eight weeks ago, a camouflaged game warden came onto Josh Highlander’s land, scared his son, and stole his trail camera.
Tags: Fourth Amendment, REASON
June 8, 2023 11:24 am
Libel Lawsuit Prompts Correction
Mediaite (Jamie Frevele), “New York Times Issues Lengthy Correction After Kai Spears’ Defamation Lawsuit,” reports; here’s the correction, from the Times site (posted Saturday): An article on March 16 about a fatal shooting that involved members of the University of Alabama basketball team misidentified the person who was in the car with one player, Brandon…
Tags: free speech, REASON
June 8, 2023 10:33 am
“Strangers on the Internet” Podcast Episode 33: Bisexual Erasure and Polyamory Rights
For Prof. Nancy Marcus, the personal is the political
Tags: REASON
June 8, 2023 10:15 am
Gary Gensler’s SEC Cracks Down on Coinbase and Binance
The SEC is suing Coinbase, alleging that it’s an unregistered securities broker, after targeting Binance the day before.
June 8, 2023 10:02 am
Law Banning Distressing Speech “About” a Person Must Be Limited to Speech Within First Amendment Exceptions
So holds the D.C. Court of Appeals, D.C.’s equivalent of a state supreme court.
Tags: free speech, REASON
June 8, 2023 9:45 am
Democrats’ Gaslighting, Republicans’ Temper Tantrum Endanger America’s Gas Stoves
The White House insists it doesn’t want to ban gas stoves but still needs the power to do so.
Tags: Climate Change, Congress, Nanny State, Politics, REASON
June 8, 2023 9:19 am
Supreme Court Reaffirms Strong Presumption of Statutory Stare Decisis
It did so in today’s Voting Rights Act ruling in Allen v. Milligan. This holding has implications for other cases where litigants attempt to overturn statutory precedents, especially longstanding ones.
Tags: REASON, Supreme Court, voting
June 8, 2023 9:16 am
Argument Against Sanctions for Lawyer’s Filing of Motion That Contained AI-Hallucinated Cases
The memorandum of law, filed by the lawyer’s counsel, is here. It seems quite well argued, though I don’t agree with the backup argument (in Part II.E) that the lawyer’s reliance on ChatGPT as a source for the supposed text of precedents was not just innocent but “reasonabl[e].” Here’s the opening paragraph of the introduction:…
Tags: REASON
June 8, 2023 9:07 am
Another Judicial Order Related to Lawyer Use of Generative AI
An order for filings before Magistrate Judge Gabriel A. Fuentes (N.D. Ill.), adopted May 31 (paragraph breaks added): The Court has adopted a new requirement in the fast-growing and fast-changing area of generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) and its use in the practice of law. The requirement is as follows: Any party using any generative AI…
Tags: REASON
June 8, 2023 8:25 am
Are Abortion Bans Takings?
Legal scholar Julie Suk argues the answer is “yes.” The idea has a solid basis in natural rights theory, but is at odds with longstanding legal doctrine. It also has potentially very broad libertarian implications.
Tags: Abortion, libertarianism, REASON
June 8, 2023 8:16 am
An Embarrassingly Unbalanced Law School Webinar on Affirmative Action
Seattle University is hosting eleven speakers for the webinar, all of whom support racial preferences.
Tags: REASON