LJC In The News
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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....
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,...
(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...
(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...
(The Center Square)—Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan, a statewide trade association, is suing the National Labor Relations Board general counsel over allegedly threatening to violate employer free-speech rights. The lawsuit says that Jennifer Abruzzo, NLRB general counsel and prosecutor, would abrogate employer First Amendment rights by using her authority...
The last time your phone asked you to allow this or that app access to your location data, you may have had some trepidation about how much Apple or Google know about you. You may have worried about what might come of that, or read about China’s use of the...