LJC In The News
Group Says South Dakota Law Violates the First Amendment
(The Center Square)—Students for Life is suing South Dakota over a law requiring nonprofits that express their political views to name their top five donors. The organization said in a federal lawsuit the law violates their First Amendment right to free speech. The law applies to expenditures over $100. Organizations...
Arizona Drops Charges Against ASU Student Arrested for Handing out Constitution
(The College Fix)—The state of Arizona has dropped all charges against former Arizona State University student Tim Tizon, the Liberty Justice Center recently confirmed to The College Fix. As an Arizona State University student and member of Young Americans for Liberty, Tizon was arrested and charged with criminal trespass in...
U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Grandmother
(Rexburg Standard Journal)—The United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Hennepin County, Minnesota, violated the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause when it sold Geraldine Tyler’s home to satisfy a tax bill and kept the excess money for itself. Tyler is a 94-year-old grandmother who, after moving from her one-bedroom condominium into...
IL Gives up Defending Likely Unconstitutional, Politically Motivated Limits on Judicial Campaign Contributions
(Cook County Record)—With a Democratic supermajority on the state Supreme Court now in place, potentially for decades to come, Illinois state officials have given up their efforts to defend a state law that critics said was unconstitutionally designed to restrict the flow of money to campaigns and committees to aid...
Federal Judge in Chicago Permanently Blocks Illinois Judicial Election Reforms
(Courthouse News Service)—Conservative political action committees scored a win in Illinois on Thursday, when an Obama-appointed federal judge in the Windy City struck down two of the state’s recently enacted judicial election reform laws. The first reform, enacted by the Illinois General Assembly in November 2021, barred non-Illinois residents from...
Charges Dropped Against Former College Student Who Handed out Constitution on Campus
(The Washington Times)—Authorities have dropped all charges against an Arizona State University student who was arrested last year on trespassing charges after he set up a table to distribute copies of the Constitution without permission. Attorneys representing Tim Tizon, a senior at the time of the incident last spring, announced...
Campus Free-Speech Case Update
(National Review)—In a win for freedom of speech on campus, the state of Arizona has dropped all charges against Tim Tizon, a former Arizona State University student representing Young Americans for Liberty who was arrested and convicted for trespassing in March 2022 while distributing copies of the U.S. Constitution to...
Supreme Court Takes Challenge To Landmark Decision That ‘Wreaked Havoc’ On ‘People And Businesses’
(The Daily Caller)—The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a case directly challenging a landmark decision on the powers of federal agencies, providing the Court an opportunity to drastically limit the authority of the administrative state. The challenge stems from family-owned fishing companies’ lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries...
Appeals Court Says Parents Can Pursue First Amendment Challenge to LCPS
(Loudoun Now)—The United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled April 14 that several Loudoun County parents can pursue a First Amendment lawsuit against Loudoun County Public Schools’ bias reporting system. The decision reverses the dismissal of a lawsuit by District Court Judge Anthony John Trenga wherein the parents sued...
Court: Virginia Parents’ Lawsuit Can Continue Against Loudoun Schools over Bias Incident Reporting Form
(Center Square)—The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed the dismissal of a lawsuit made by Loudoun County, Virginia, parents against their public school system over a bias reporting system, which they argue could chill their children’s freedom of speech. The appeals court overturned a lower court decision...
Fourth Circuit Lets Parents Fight Virginia School Bias Reporting Policy
(Courthouse News Service)—The Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that a northern Virginia school system’s bias reporting forms could have a chilling effect on students’ free speech. The opinion, penned by U.S. Circuit Judge Marvin Quattlebaum, orders the district court to reconsider a group of parents’ First Amendment claims on the merits....
An NLRB Lawyer’s Anti-Worker Crusade
Jennifer Abruzzo, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), has been called a “quiet hero” and an “activist championing the rights of workers from the inside” by the mainstream press. But these fawning tributes ignore the pernicious impact of her work. While she may profess pro-worker sympathies,...
School Choice for Parents Is a State of Emergency?
The Center Square Lawsuit Forces Tennessee to Open State Court Commission Meetings
(The Center Square)—A U.S. District Court judge has granted an injunction, ruling the Tennessee state court’s Advisory Commission must open its meetings to the public either in person or via livestream after a lawsuit filed by The Center Square. Dan McCaleb, vice president of news and content, sued the Tennessee...
A Campus Free-Speech Case with a Dash of Irony
(National Review)—In a promotional video made by Arizona State University (ASU), the school says that it “respects and expects free speech on all of its campuses” and is committed to “fostering the free exchange of ideas.” A case involving a student recently enrolled there raises some questions about how well...