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Published time: 8 Oct, 2017 23:03 A 17-year student was suspended from her school in Houston, Texas, on Monday for not standing for the pledge of allegiance. Now, her family is suing the school district and the principal for violating her First Amendment rights. India Landry was in the principal’s office at Windfern High School […]
Enlarge (credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) A New York federal judge is upholding New York’s ban on voters photographing their marked ballots in polling places. The judge says the First Amendment is trumped by the law’s stated goal to cut down on election fraud via vote buying and extortion. US District Judge P. Kevin Castel said […]
By fighting against the collection of warrantless location information, Verizon bucks a trend of telecom cooperation with the feds. https://media.wired.com/photos/59934218d5c2fb3991a1a035/master/pass/Verizon-HP-496912096.jpg Feed: All Latest
Enlarge / Issue ads like this one from 2012 used to be commonplace in the DC metro. (credit: outtacontext) The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday sued the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the government agency that operates the capital region’s subway system and its primary bus network. The ACLU argues that the transit agency’s policies […]
Enlarge (credit: Hamza Butt) We’ve been covering a recent First Amendment lawsuit targeting President Donald Trump—a novel legal argument in which Twitter users claim their constitutional rights were violated because the commander-in-chief blocked them from his personal @realDonaldTrump Twitter handle. To be sure, it’s a digital-age-based constitutional theory about social media rights in a day and age […]
A legal battle against AR games like Pokémon Go has been brewing in Wisconsin and this week, the games scored a win. In February, Milwaukee County introduced a new law that required AR game makers to get a permit before their games could be designed for use in the county’s parks. The move came after […]
Enlarge (credit: Candy Lab) A judge on Thursday declared as unconstitutional a local Wisconsin ordinance mandating that the makers of augmented reality games get special use permits if their mobile apps were to be played in county parks. The law—the nation’s first of its kind—was challenged on First Amendment grounds amid concerns it amounted to […]
AP For months, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has been a staunch critic of Senate Republicans’ replacement for the Affordable Care Act, publicly blasting it as “Obamacare-lite” because it leaves many of the law’s taxes and some of its regulations in place and allocates billions of dollars for insurance market stabilization that he derides as a “bailout.” Paul has blocked previous iterations […]
Republicans in the Senate are set to release an update of their healthcare bill as they work to find a way to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. One attempt to attract conservative holdouts to the new version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) could be the addition of a Consumer Freedom provision, introduced by Sen. Ted […]
JULY 11, 2017 ATLANTA—Like many African-Americans of his generation, Phillip Smith, a Californian in his 50s, grew up without a gun in the house. To his parents, gun ownership was not just politically unacceptable, but morally wrong – a fount, if anything, of trouble and tragedy. When he moved his own family to the South […]
