**Thursday Open Thread**
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**Victims' Families File Petition in the Fifth Circuit Seeking to Enforce Rights in the Boeing Case**
The families argue that they should have been given an opportunity to confer with prosecutors under the Crime Victims' Rights Act before Boeing's …
**My Daughter's School District Warns That Nicotine Vapers Could Be Unknowingly Inhaling Fentanyl**
The only report about fentanyl in vape cartridges on the DEA's website involves a man who died after deliberately vaping fentanyl.
**Arizona House Passes a Bill That Would Force Children To Say the Pledge of Allegiance**
"The current law is that parents have a right to direct the education of their child,'' said the bill's sponsor. "And this is a parents' rights state.''
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**Two GOP Governors Endorse State-Sponsored Immigration Visas**
The idea has limitations, but would be a major improvement over the status quo.
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/02/23/two-gop-governors-endorse-state-sponsored-immigration-visas/
**No, the HEROES Act Doesn't Let Biden Forgive Student Loans**
"If it was an emergency, why wait three years to provide the forgiveness? Why present it in a political framework, as fulfilling a campaign promise?" said one higher education expert.
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**Copyright Office: No Copyright Protection for Certain AI-Generated Works**
Law from the dawn of the dawn of the AI age.
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**New in WSJ: On Judicial Supremacy in America and in Israel**
"The fundamental question in any system of government is: Who decides?"
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/02/23/new-in-wsj-on-judicial-supremacy-in-america-and-in-israel/
**Paul Krugman Says Social Security Is Sustainable. It's Really Not.**
Krugman sees benefit cuts as "a choice" but believes that implementing a massive tax increase on American employers and workers would be "of course" no big deal.
https://reason.com/2023/02/23/paul-krugman-says-social-security-is-sustainable-its-really-not/
**Biden Renominates Gigi Sohn, Net Neutrality Advocate, to the FCC**
Net neutrality is an unnecessary and failed policy.
https://reason.com/2023/02/23/biden-renominates-gigi-sohn-net-neutrality-advocate-to-the-fcc/
**COVID Vaccination, Gender Fluidity, and Family Law**
I don't quite know what to make of all this, but it seems like an interesting case, and I thought I'd pass it along. From Anaya-Alvarado v. Anaya-Alvarado, decided last week by the Nevada Court…
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**FTC Investigating, but Not Thwarting, Amazon Acquisition of One Medical**
Since the Federal Trade Commission didn't sue in time, the deal went through. But will FTC Chair Lina Khan keep trying to attack Amazon for its bigness?
https://reason.com/2023/02/23/ftc-investigating-but-not-thwarting-amazon-acquisition-of-one-medical/
**The FDA Will Let the Soy Boys Have Their Milk**
Plus: Google blocks news to Canadian users in advance of pending media law, Arizona considers zoning reform bill, and more...
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**No Sealing of Record to Protect Reputation of Defendants**
From Liberty Mutual Fire Ins. Co. v. Maple Manor Neuro Center Inc., decided Tuesday by Judge Linda Parker (E.D. Mich.): This dispute arises from no-fault insurance benefits that Plaintiff…
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/02/23/no-sealing-of-record-to-protect-reputation-of-defendants/
**Today in Supreme Court History: February 23, 1905**
2/23/1905: Lochner v. New York argued.
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**Fusion Future, Fission Present**
For the first time ever, researchers achieved "ignition" in a fusion reaction, meaning they created a fusion reaction that releases more energy than it consumes.
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**Brickbat: One Is the Loneliest Number**
The Anchorage, Alaska, school system has reached an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to stop placing students with disabilities in seclusion and to restrain them only if there is imminent danger o…
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**Thursday Open Thread**
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