**Making Sense Of The Votes In Bittner v. United States**
Why did Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, but not Justice Jackson, join Justice Barrett's dissent.
Comments: https://reason.com/volokh/2023/03/01/making-sense-of-the-votes-in-bittner-v-united-states/#comments
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**The Jones Act Is Driving Up Prices and Making Crises Worse**
The legislation, which forbids shipping anything between American ports in ships that are not U.S. built and crewed, is just another a special deal that one industry has scammed out of Congress.
Comments: https://reason.com/2023/03/01/the-jones-act-is-driving-up-prices-and-making-crises-worse/#comments
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**How SCOTUS Promoted Pernicious Myths About Sex Offender Registries**
Twenty years ago, the justices deemed registration nonpunitive, accepting unsubstantiated assumptions about its benefits and blithely dismissing its costs.
https://reason.com/2023/03/01/how-scotus-promoted-pernicious-myths-about-sex-offender-registries/
**Thoughts on Today's Supreme Court Student Loan Forgiveness Oral Arguments**
The justices seem to be clearly leaning against the Biden Administration on the merits. The procedural issue of standing is a closer call, though ultimately more likely than not to come out the same way.
**"Strangers on the Internet" Podcast Episode 24: What Are Dating App Operators Thinking?**
On Section 230 and much more
**D.C. Circuit Refuses to Order Archivist to Certify Ratification of Equal Rights Amendment**
From today's D.C. Circuit opinion in Illinois v. Ferriero, written by Judge David Wilkins and joined by Judges Neomi Rao and Michelle Childs: The States of Illinois and Nevada … filed this mandamus action in the district court, seeking to compel the Archivist of the United States to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment…
**ACLU of N.C., Freedom of the Press Foundation, and I Are Challenging Sealing of Documents Related to Gag Order**
In Doe v. U.N.C. Sys. (W.D.N.C.), a case challenging the expulsion of plaintiff Jacob Doe for alleged sexual assault, the court issued a quite remarkable TRO last week: It, among other things, required defendants "to direct all individuals"—including UNC students—"over whom they exercise control to refrain from publishing or disclosing any information concerning the Plaintiff,…
**Is Investigating a School Sexting Incident the Same as Possessing Child Porn? A Judge Says No.**
Bradley Bass' case in Colorado says a lot about just how powerful prosecutors are.
**Is Investigating a School Sexting Incident the Same As Possessing Child Porn? A Judge Says No.**
Bradley Bass' case in Colorado says a lot about just how powerful prosecutors are.
**Prominent Climate Change Activist Researchers Finally Call for Solar Geoengineering Research**
Reason first argued for researching such a planetary emergency cooling system 26 years ago.
**An Unusual Supreme Court Split in Bittner v. United States**
The Bank Secrecy Act divides the justices in an unusal way, and Justice Barrett authors her fourth opinion in an argued case.
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/02/28/an-unusual-supreme-court-split-in-bittner-v-united-states/
**An Unusual Supreme Court Split in Bittner v. United States**
The Bank Secrecy Act divides the justices in an unusual way, and Justice Barrett authors her fourth opinion in an argued case.
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/02/28/an-unusual-supreme-court-split-in-bittner-v-united-states/
**Justice Jackson's First Opinion in an Argued Case**
To the junior-most justice goes a case arising out of the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction concerning the Abandoned Money Orders and Traveler's Checks Act.
Comments: https://reason.com/volokh/2023/02/28/justice-jacksons-first-opinion-in-an-argued-case/#comments
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**"Cops Ahead" Sign Protected by First Amendment, at Least Given Specific Connecticut Statutory Scheme**
"Look out" vs. lookout.
**Alabama Set To Resume Executions. But Will They Stop Botching Them?**
"No one buys this sham of a review," wrote one critic. "And the reason we don't buy it is because we all have functioning brains."
https://reason.com/2023/02/28/alabama-set-to-resume-executions-but-will-they-stop-botching-them/
**Ex-Lawmakers, Socialist City Councilmember Fight Putting New Housing on Shuttered Denver Golf Course**
An oddball coalition of neighborhood activists and left-wing politicians have opposed plans to convert the privately owned site to housing, citing the loss of open space and impacts on gentrification.
**Ex-Lawmakers, Socialist City Councilmember Fight Putting New Housing on Shuttered Denver Golf Course**
An oddball coalition of neighborhood activists and left-wing politicians have opposed plans to convert the privately owned site to housing, cit…
**A group autopsy of the Supreme Court's oral argument on section 230**
Episode 445 of the Cyberlaw Podcast
**The End of a Weed Paradise**
D.C. is destroying its thriving cannabis industry with bureaucracy and red tape.
Comments: https://reason.com/video/2023/02/28/the-end-of-a-weed-paradise/#comments
https://reason.com/video/2023/02/28/the-end-of-a-weed-paradise/
**Global Disinformation Index, Inform Thyself**
Time and time again, so-called disinformation watchdogs fail their own tests—the lab leak is just the latest example.
Comments: https://reason.com/2023/02/28/global-disinformation-index-lab-leak-theory-media-misinfo/#comments
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