**How Today's Skeptical Supreme Court Could Block Net Neutrality Rules**
Attempts to reclassify ISPs as common carriers are unsupported by law.
https://reason.com/2023/02/24/how-todays-skeptical-supreme-court-could-block-net-neutrality-rules/
**Texas Abortion Laws Don't Regulate Out-of-State Abortions**
From today's decision by Judge Robert Pitman in Fund Texas Choice v. Paxton (W.D. Tex.): [T]he Court will grant [Texas AG Ken] Paxton's motion to dismiss and grant the preliminary injunc…
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/02/24/texas-abortion-laws-dont-regulate-out-of-state-abortions/
**Any of These Supreme Courts Cases Could Crush the Internet**
The Court’s decisions in Gonzalez and subsequent cases could lead to impossible, incompatible consequences.
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https://reason.com/2023/02/24/any-of-these-supreme-courts-cases-could-crush-the-internet/
**Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions**
Boisterous school children, suspicious mispronunciations, and convicted misdemeanant Don Blankenship.
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/02/24/short-circuit-a-roundup-of-recent-federal-court-decisions-199/
**Virginia Police Shoot and Kill a Man Suspected of Shoplifting Sunglasses**
Police have not yet determined whether the suspect was armed at the time of the shooting.
**Ron DeSantis Wants To Cultivate 'Viewpoint Diversity' by Censoring Universities**
Florida's H.B. 999 claims to support "viewpoint diversity" and "intellectual rigor." It does just the opposite.
**Tennessee's Anti-Drag Bill Is a Gaudy Public Performance**
It’s already illegal to expose minors to obscenity, so what is this bill really for?
Comments: https://reason.com/2023/02/24/tennessees-anti-drag-bill-is-a-gaudy-public-performance/#comments
https://reason.com/2023/02/24/tennessees-anti-drag-bill-is-a-gaudy-public-performance/
**Justice Kagan Affirms En Banc Fifth Circuit**
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court decided Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt. The facts of the case are straightforward enough: does a "tool-pusher" who makes more than $200,000 per year, whil…
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**Journal of Free Speech Law: "The Virtue of Tolerance in Hiring and Promotion by Private Institutions,"**
by Prof. Peter de Marneffe (Ariz. State).
**Journal of Free Speech Law: "Campus Speech Should Not Be Free," by Prof. Sarah Conly (Bowdoin)**
Just published as part of the "Non-Governmental Restrictions on Free Speech" symposium; here's the start of the Introduction and the Conclusion (the …
**New NTSB Report Highlights Useless, Premature Regulatory Push After East Palestine Derailment**
Plus: Ex-felons and the right to vote, Gavin Newsom's plan to cap oil company profits collides with reality, and more...
**A Conflict Between Liberal Democracy and Authoritarian Nationalism: Implications of the Ideological Stakes in the Russia-Ukraine War**
The war is often described as a conflict between authoritarianism and liberal democracy. That reality has some …
**"Hacker's Mind" meets lawyer's mind**
Interviewing Bruce Schneier in episode 444 of the Cyberlaw Podcast
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https://reason.com/volokh/2023/02/24/hackers-mind-meets-lawyers-mind/
**Misdemeanant / Senate Candidate Don Blankenship Loses Appeal Over News Outlets' Calling Him "Felon"**
From Blankenship v. NBCUniversal, LLC (4th Cir.), decided Wednesday by Chief Judge Roger Gregory, Judge Paul Niemeyer, and District Judge Patric…
**Having Jury Deliberate During Start of COVID Pandemic Didn't Deprive Murder Defendant of Fair Trial**
The mentally ill defendant "testified and described how shooting white people was part of his divine, preordained mission to establish 'a kingdo…
**The Deck Is Stacked Against Americans Who Try To Sue Government Officials**
It's a threat to our fundamental rights, but courts refuse to change their approach.
**Today in Supreme Court History: February 24, 1930**
2/24/1930: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes takes oath.
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https://reason.com/volokh/2023/02/24/today-in-supreme-court-history-february-24-1930-4/
**The Ukraine War May Engulf the World**
What was a local conflict is shaping up as a battle between alliances.
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https://reason.com/2023/02/24/the-ukraine-war-may-engulf-the-world/
**The War in Ukraine Has No End in Sight**
After one year, whatever morale boost Biden’s visit provided won’t necessarily have concrete, strategic effects in Ukraine.
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https://reason.com/2023/02/24/the-war-in-ukraine-has-no-end-in-sight/
**Review: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy Brings Together Bruce Catton's 3 Civil War Chronicles**
These superb books recount events from the viewpoints of both soldier and statesman, providing a greater understanding of the why and how of the Civil…