LJC In The News
Tennessee Court Advisory Commission to Hold Open Meeting Due to Injunction
(The Center Square)—The Tennessee Advisory Commission on Rules of Practice and Procedure will hold a Dec. 8 meeting in Nashville that the group plans to live stream after The Center Square received an injunction earlier this year to open the meetings to the public. The Center Square Vice President of...
Omaha Mayor Signs Bump Stock Ban, Joining City Curb on Gun Kits—Opponents Pledge Legal Action in Defense of Nebraska Concealed Carry Law
(The Nebraska Examiner)—Omaha’s mayor signed the last of two new gun-related ordinances and resolutions aimed at carving out some local tools against gun violence after the Nebraska Legislature cracked down on cities with stricter local gun ordinances than state law. The newest ordinance bans “bump stocks” or trigger activators. The...
Omaha Mayor Signs off on Council’s Gun Kit Ordinance, Gun Resolutions: Legal Challenges Likely, Experts Say
(The Nebraska Examiner)—Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert has signed the new ordinance from City Councilman Pete Festersen banning possession of the kits used to build home-assembled handguns. She also signed both gun-related resolutions adopted by the City Council. The measures were proposed in response to Legislative Bill 77, the state’s new...
Attorney: States Must Understand They Can’t Censor Physicians
(American Family News)—In late 2022, California passed a law that said doctors could lose their license for giving patients so-called “misinformation” about COVID, even one time. Shortly after the law was passed, Liberty Justice Center sued to challenge the law in federal court on behalf of California doctors for violating...
Opinion: The Biden Administration Thinks It Has a First Amendment Right to Censor Your Speech
(The Daily Caller)—Imagine that the next Republican administration coerced Twitter into censoring the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, or pressured Facebook into creating an algorithm that suppresses progressive political speech and amplifies conservative speech, by training these social media companies to moderate content based on what the government determined was “misinformation.” You would...
Brewer at the Legislature: Omaha, Lincoln Lag in Compliance with Constitutional Carry of Weapons
(The North Platte Bulletin)—This column by Senator Tom Brewer appeared in the North Platte Bulletin on November 1, 2023. My office continues to receive a high volume of calls about constitutional carry and state preemption. When LB 77 was passed and signed into law back in April of this year,...
Activists Demand Ruling on California Law Penalizing Doctors for COVID Views
(The Center Square)—The Liberty Justice Center urged the Ninth Circuit Court to issue a judgment against a California law, which will be repealed at the beginning of 2024 but still threatens doctors with suspension of their medical licenses for spreading what the state has deemed is COVID-19 information outside of...
New York Times Helps California Democrats Vilify School District For Returning Power To Parents
(The Federalist)—In an attempt to shift public opinion against the Chino Valley Unified School District, which is currently embroiled in a fight with California Attorney General Rob Bonta over its new parental notification policy, The New York Times published an article smearing the fight to protect parents’ rights. The CVUSD...
‘Not the Way the Constitution Works’: Medical, Science Advocacy Groups Want SCOTUS to Protect Regulatory State’s Power
(The Daily Caller)—Medical, environmental and scientific advocacy groups are urging the Supreme Court to protect the power of regulatory agencies, arguing that agency experts do a better job interpreting Congress’ policy goals than the courts. Groups warned in friend-of-the-court briefs that the Supreme Court could limit agencies’ ability to use...
School District Vows to Continue Fight After CA Judge Blocks Parental Notification Policy: ‘Battle Not Over’
(Fox News)—Portions of a Southern California school district’s parental notification policy will remain blocked, after a judge granted a preliminary injunction to the state of California to stop the measure the state says discriminates against LGBTQ students. Chino Valley Unified School District passed the policy in July. Part of the...
Whatever Happened to Kids’ Innocence—and Parental Rights?
In Maryland, a group seeks to have sexually explicit books removed from school libraries and is being portrayed as enemies of speech and enlightenment. Meanwhile, in California, parents believe they should be informed if their child shows signs of gender confusion while at school—an argument with which the state disagrees....
CA Judge Temporarily Blocks Part of Parental Notification Policy for Gender Changes
(The Center Square) – Judge Michael Sachs of the Superior Court of California partially upheld and partially blocked parts of Chino Valley Unified School District’s controversial gender change notification policy that has drawn attention from state leaders as the latest battleground in the culture war. Sachs issued an injunction against...
Legal Showdown This Week Over Chino Valley’s Parental Notification Policy
(California Family Council)—In a case that has sparked intense debate surrounding parental rights, student privacy, and whether public schools can keep secrets from parents, the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, is set to become the stage for a legal showdown this Thursday, October 19. Judge Michael Sachs...
California Quietly Repeals Restrictions on Doctors’ COVID-19 Advice
(Reason)—California legislators last month quietly repealed a 2022 law that authorized disciplinary action against doctors, including loss of their medical licenses, when they share COVID-19 “misinformation” with their patients. The law, A.B. 2098, defined that ambiguous and highly contested category of speech as “false information that is contradicted by contemporary...
Opinion: In Chino Valley Case, Courts Should Choose Parents Rights over State Supremacy
(The Orange County Register)—Who has the right to decide what’s in the best interests of children: their parents or the state? That’s the issue at the heart of a lawsuit California Attorney General Rob Bonta has brought against the Chino Valley Unified School District. In July, the District’s board adopted...