District Court Judgment in 303 Creative v. Elenis (the Wedding Web Site Design Case)
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by Eugene Volokh
49m ago
Following the Supreme Court's remand to the Tenth Circuit, which in turn led to the remand to district court, Chief Judge Philip Brimmer (D. Colo.) rendered the following order Tuesday: It is ORDERED that plaintiffs are the prevailing parties in this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b). Plaintiffs and their counsel are entitled to recover their reasonable attorney's fees, costs, and expenses for work related to litigation before the district court. It is further ORDERED that the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause prohibits Colorado from enforcing the Accommodation Clause of Colorado's Anti-Dis ..read more
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Journal of Free Speech Law: "Investigative Deception Across Social Contexts," by Prof. Alan Chen
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by Eugene Volokh
49m ago
The article is here; the Introduction: People lie to gain access to private property in a surprising variety of contexts. Civil rights "testers" create fake identities and pose as potential buyers or renters to investigate race discrimination by real estate agents and landlords. Union activists secure jobs at nonunion workplaces so they can organize the company's workers. Law enforcement agents pose as drug dealers to gain access to a narcotics warehouse. An investigative journalist infiltrates a white nationalist group so she can write a story about the group's philosophy and propensity for ..read more
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New York Regulators Shut Down a Marijuana Processor After She Criticized the State's Lax Enforcement
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by C.J. Ciaramella
49m ago
New York's botched attempt to roll out an adult recreational marijuana market is facing even more scrutiny amid claims of whistleblower retaliation, favoritism, and the unchecked spread of illegal dispensaries. The chief equity officer for New York's Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) was put on administrative leave last week, and Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered an overhaul of the beleaguered program, which even she has admitted is a "disaster." At the center of the story is Jenny Argie, CEO of Jenny's Baked at Home Company, a New York marijuana processor. Argie says the OCM retaliated against ..read more
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The Second Amendment and 18-to-20-Year-Olds
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by Eugene Volokh
49m ago
From Third Circuit Judge Cheryl Krause's dissent from denial of rehearing en banc yesterday in Lara v. Commissioner; Judges Shwartz, Restrepo, Freeman, Montgomery-Reeves, and Chung also voted to rehear the case en banc, but didn't write an opinion or join Judge Krause's: When they ratified the Second Amendment, our Founders did not intend to bind the nation in a straitjacket of 18th-century legislation, nor did they mean to prevent future generations from protecting themselves against gun violence more rampant and destructive than the Founders could have possibly imagined. At a minimum, one w ..read more
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Milei To Slash 70,000 Government Jobs To Reform Argentina's Economy
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by Katarina Hall
3h ago
Argentine President Javier Milei announced his plans to slash 70,000 government jobs in an effort to shrink government expenditure and reduce the national deficit to zero. The cuts are part of his broader strategy to achieve fiscal balance at any cost.  Milei announced the cuts during his closing speech at the International Economic Forum of the Americas in Buenos Aires this week.  Over 50,000 of Argentina's approximately 3.5 million public sector employees have already been dismissed, but more cuts were on the way. According to a statement by the presidential office, the remaining ..read more
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Tennessee Generally Bans Political and Religious Discrimination by Financial Institutions
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by Eugene Volokh
5h ago
From a newly enacted bill: A financial institution shall not deny or cancel its services to a person, or otherwise discriminate against a person in making available such services or in the terms or conditions of such services, on the basis of: (1) The person's political opinions, speech, or affiliations; (2) Except [for a financial institution that claims a religious purpose], the person's religious beliefs, religious exercise, or religious affiliations; (3) Any factor if it is not a quantitative, impartial, and risk-based standard, including any such factor related to the person's business s ..read more
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Report: Trump's Proposed Tariff Would Cost Families $1,500 Annually
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by Eric Boehm
5h ago
Former President Donald Trump's plan to impose a 10 percent tariff on all imports to the United States would hike prices and cost the average American household $1,500 annually. That's the sobering conclusion reached by a new economic analysis from the Center for American Progress (CAP) Action Fund, a left-leaning think tank and advocacy organization. The proposed tariff, which would be applied on top of existing tariffs according to Trump's campaign, would translate into $1,500 in higher costs for the average American household. That includes "a $90 tax increase on food, a $90 tax increase o ..read more
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Dave Smith vs. Chris Freiman: What's the Ideal Immigration Policy?
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by Zach Weissmueller, Liz Wolfe
5h ago
Immigration ranks as the second-most important issue among registered U.S. voters and the top issue for Republican voters, according to a Marist Poll/PBS NewsHour/NPR poll released last month. Perhaps that's because of the 3.2 million border encounters documented by Border Patrol in 2023—a new record high that's so far being outpaced this year. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who to erect razor wire fencing at the border despite a Supreme Court ruling prohibiting Texas from stopping federal agents from cutting through the barriers, has likely also heightened the salience of the issue for Republican v ..read more
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Ronna McDaniel and the Media's Election Denial Double Standard
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by Robby Soave
6h ago
Ronna McDaniel's tenure as an on-air commentator for NBC News is already over: The network fired the former Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman this week after enduring a full-on mutiny from other staffers and hosts. MSNBC pundits Chuck Todd, Joe Scarborough, and Rachel Maddow all criticized network heads for bringing McDaniel on board. Todd suggested her commentary would be suspect, since she had only recently departed the RNC; Scarborough said he "strongly objected" to her; and Maddow said the network hiring McDaniel was like hiring a mobster to work at a district attorney's offi ..read more
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Luck of the Irish
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by Liz Wolfe
8h ago
RFK Jr.'s running mate: This week, environmental lawyer/alt-science peddler Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—who is running for president as an independent, and polling quite highly—selected Nicole Shanahan, Google co-founder Sergey Brin's ex-wife and a tech entrepreneur in her own right, as his veep. Shanahan was the main funder and creative mind behind RFK Jr.'s surprisingly good Super Bowl ad: Of course, this one pays homage to JFK's 1960 campaign ad—a fact that pissed off much of the Kennedy family, who by and large do not share RFK Jr.'s beliefs and seem moderately to severely embarrassed by him ..read more
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