Free Speech

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.24.22

* Could these abortion bans be just the thing needed to spur environmentalism with teeth? [Daily Beast] * The 11th Circuit just found the Florida law that prevents social media sites from moderating political speech to be unconstitutional. [Yahoo!] * Harvard just uhh... sued the government for discriminating against one of its students? Am I reading this right? [The Crimson] * Colorado just made it a little easier to be a parent. [Chieftain] * We don't like your kind around here: Inventions originating from artificial intelligence are butting up against patent law in interesting ways. [Nature]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.29.22

* Laws matter: life lost after school neglects to follow anti-bullying protocol. [WBEZ] * The EU's laws will be impacting American free speech, eh? Talk about long-arm statutes. [The Hill] * Oklahoma just passed their version of Texas's Roe sidestep. Over/under for them banning condoms too in two weeks? [CNN] * Marjorie Taylor Greene is maintaining the Shaggy defense for her Section 3 trial. [NBC News] * People are upset that the Texas bill disincentivizing the use of clean energy isn't enough to keep them using fossil fuels. Sorry, not sorry. [NPR]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.24.22

* Meaning what you say: Climate change activist self-immolated in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day. [Independent] * Are our founding principles stronger than historical revisionism? This 1st Amendment suit against banning history will let us know. [WCGU] * Nixing the 77%: Mississippi now requires that women be paid the same amount as men for the same work. Fanfare aplenty. [ABC News] * ...And Mississippi is also banning vaccination mandates. Being newsworthy twice in a row counts for something, right? [Clarion Ledger] * Three's Company: Brandeis must be overjoyed about this relapse into old antitrust jurisprudence. [Bloomberg]

By Chris Williams
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.04.22

* Two Americas: Legal battles are making for radically different living experiences state by state. [NYT] * Too little, too late? New federal anti-lynching law may not be enough of a deterrent. [NPR] * Florida has been trying to make the most of the whole 1965 Voting Rights Act being gutted and all. [NYT] * Trump’s Twitter emulator is failing bigly. Hard to speak freely with bad coders. [BBC] * All good boys protect and serve: Officer attacking a teenager bitten by K-9. [YouTube]

By Chris Williams