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**Still No Pseudonymity for Sorority Members Suing to Challenge Sorority's Admission of Transgender Student**

From Judge Alan Johnson's decision today in Doe v. Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity (D. Wyo.) (the "fraternity" is really a sorority), declining to reconsider an earlier decision: I yearn for the day where litigants seek their courts unburdened by the mere possibility of physical reprisal. That hope may be quixotic today. The digital age is…

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**Here's Why the State Department Is Taking Months To Renew Your Passport**

COVID-era problems are partially to blame, but so are outdated government practices.

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**Cornell Vows Free Expression–Themed Academic Year**

"It is critical to our mission as a university to think deeply about freedom of expression and the challenges that result from assaults on it," said Cornell President Martha E. Pollack.

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**Fox News Starts Its Dominion Defamation Trial With Several Strikes Against It**

Pretrial rulings recognized the falsity of the election-fraud claims that the outlet aired and rejected three of its defenses.

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**Texas' Foster Care System Is Grossly Mismanaged**

"These things are just so inexcusable," a judge said. "It's hard to understand."

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**Judge Rules New York State Police Must Disclose Misconduct Records**

It's been nearly three years since New York repealed its police secrecy law, and departments are still fighting to hide misconduct records.

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**Chuck Schumer's Hasty Plan To Regulate Artificial Intelligence Is a Really Bad Idea**

Federal A.I. regulation now will hinder progress, consumer choice, and market competition.

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**Auditors Asked the IRS To Figure Out Why So Many Taxpayers Make Mistakes. The IRS Said 'No.'**

Maybe taxpayers would make fewer mistakes if the federal tax code weren't so hopelessly complex.

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**How the Media Got the Vinyl Chloride Risk All Wrong**

The Ohio train accident was frightening enough. Spreading inaccurate information won’t help the citizens of East Palestine.

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**Today in Supreme Court History: March 7, 1965**

3/7/1965: Civil rights marchers are attacked by the police in Selma, Alabama. The event would become known as "Bloody Sunday."

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**Brickbat: For the Birds**

A judge has ordered the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) to return 13 birds it seized from falconer Holly Lamar. The agency seized the birds and confiscated some of her equipment, days after she filed a complaint against one of its agents for failing to respond to her requests for information for months and giving…

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**The Government Is Subsidizing Microchip Firms—While Making It More Expensive To Produce Microchips**

Politicians say they want to subsidize various industries, but they sabotage themselves by weighing the policies down with rules that have nothing to do with the plans.

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**On Universal Vacatur, the Supreme Court, and the D.C. Circuit**

Thoughts on recent oral argument exchanges on whether the Administrative Procedure Act contemplates (let alone requires) universal vacatur.

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**Fox's Excuses Reinforce Dominion's Defamation Case**

Although Rupert Murdoch admits that Lou Dobbs and other hosts "endorsed" the "stolen election" narrative, Fox's lawyers insist that is not true.

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