The NIH Deleted Comments Criticizing Animal Testing. A Federal Court Says That Violates the First Amendment.
The NIH had been deleting all social media comments containing words like animal, testing, and cruel.
The NIH had been deleting all social media comments containing words like animal, testing, and cruel.
The Supreme Court created, then gutted, a right to sue federal agents for civil rights violations.
Last year, one prison's temperatures stayed above 100 degrees for 11 days.
Nina Jankowicz finds out the truth may hurt, but it isn’t lawsuit bait.
Robert Williams was arrested in 2020 after facial recognition software incorrectly identified him as the person responsible for a Detroit-area shoplifting incident.
The SAVE plan would have dramatically reduced the amount borrowers were required to pay back before receiving forgiveness—and cost taxpayers almost $500 billion over the next decade.
However distasteful, the First Amendment protects a citizen’s right to give a police officer the middle finger.
"In short, 'cruel and unusual' is not the same as 'harmful and unfair,'" the court wrote.
After police detained Benjamin Hendren, they urged construction workers to lie about him.
Officers should have known that handcuffing a compliant 10-year-old is unnecessary, the court ruled.
A federal appeals court ruled that the government is not immune from a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by foreign students duped into enrolling into a fake school run by ICE.
The doctrine makes it nearly impossible for victims of prosecutorial misconduct to get recourse.
"This is an obvious attempt to use our public schools to convert kids to Christianity. We live in a democracy, not a theocracy," one ACLU attorney tells Reason.
The decision reverses the Court's previous stay of a lower court decision blocking part of the law.
The case hinged upon the idea of what a publicly funded school can teach. But parents do have a role to play in that conversation.
X's child porn detection system doesn’t violate an Illinois biometric privacy law, the judge ruled.
As Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted during oral arguments, the right to sell a shirt is different from the right to be the only one who can sell that shirt.
The court ruled that it is unconstitutional for officials to remove library books with the "intent to deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they disagree."
The plaintiffs hope to "help Republicans and conservatives see why this ban is inconsistent with the free speech values they say they care about."
The transit authority was sued after rejecting an ad that directed viewers to go to a website "to find out about the faith of our founders."
Yareni Rios was severely injured after a train struck a police car she had been placed in after being arrested in 2022.
The town of Sturgeon initially defended the officer, saying he was afraid of being bitten by the 13-pound blind and deaf Shih Tzu.
Justin Pulliam's arrest and lawsuit once again demand we ask if "real" journalists are entitled to a different set of rights.
Detectives in Fontana, California, told Thomas Perez Jr. that his father was dead and that he killed him. Neither was true.
A new lawsuit argues the state's requirement that doctors must be licensed in California to do remote consultations with patients there is unconstitutional.
Judge Carlton Reeves ripped apart the legal doctrine in his latest decision on the matter.
Left alone, artificial intelligence could actually help small firms compete with tech giants.
Prosecutor Ralph Petty was also employed as a law clerk—by the same judges he argued before.
The Institute for Justice has launched a project to reform land use regulation.
A bill backed by the Conference of Mayors would let courts issue restraining orders when people “harass” officials with information requests.
Mollie and Michael Slaybaugh are reportedly out over $70,000. The government says it is immune.
Under the prosecution's theory, Trump would be guilty of falsifying business records even if Daniels made the whole thing up.
The three-judge panel concluded unanimously that while the state law at issue is constitutional, the wildlife agents' application of it was not.
Now his victim's family has been awarded a $3.8 million settlement.
Christian McGhee is suing, arguing a North Carolina assistant principal infringed on his free speech rights.
Abortion rights groups have sued Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall after he said he would prosecute anyone who facilitates legal out-of-state abortions.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about cancelling student loan debt.
The pledge, while mostly legally illiterate, offers a reminder of the former president's outlook on government accountability.
Victor Manuel Martinez Wario was jailed for a total of five days, spending three of those in special housing for sex offenders.
Alabama law doesn't let police demand individuals' government identification. But they keep arresting people anyway.
David Knott helps clients retrieve unclaimed property from the government. The state has made it considerably harder for him to do that.
Angela Prichard was murdered after Bellevue police officers repeatedly refused to enforce a restraining order against her abusive husband.
At least one inmate claims that the shower stalls, which were just 3 feet by 3 feet, were covered in human feces.
A recent case in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals highlights just how bloated PSLF eligibility has become.
In 2021, the Associated Press uncovered rampant sexual abuse at FCI Dublin. After three years of failing to fix the problem, the Bureau of Prisons is shutting it down.
The local prosecuting attorney in Sunflower, Mississippi, is seeking to take away Nakala Murry's three children.
Dewonna Goodridge quickly discovered that Kansas civil asset forfeiture laws were stacked against her when sheriff's deputies seized her truck.