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Who’ll Shoot First? How Relaxed Gun Rules Fuel a ‘Small Arms Race’

The Crime Report

Looking at a scaled down version of mid-century nuclear strategy, a vignette of two people encountering one another in a low-lit side street late at night details how these relaxed vigilante justice laws can turn deadly. The authors create a scenario of two men, Lee and Jesse, both of whom are sporting firearms on hip holsters.

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Divided Court Strikes Down COVID-19 Restrictions on In-Home Religious Gatherings

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court ruled in Tandon v. Accordingly, the Court granted an injunction pending disposition of the appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The trial court denied the motion for preliminary injunction. The plaintiffs sought relief from the Supreme Court, asking it to grant an injunction. Newsom , 593 U.

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Stern Rebuke: Auburn University Hit With Punitive Damages in Free Speech Case

JonathanTurley

In its earlier summary judgment ruling , the court began with a discussion of the highly analogous case of Pickering v. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of public high school teacher Marvin Pickering, who wrote a letter to the local newspaper criticizing a school board’s allocation of funding for athletic programs.

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“No Safe Haven”: University of Iowa Again Found To Be Discriminating Against Religious Groups

JonathanTurley

2021) where the court held that we held that the law was clearly established that the University could not engage in viewpoint discrimination involving a Christian club. For example, sports clubs and Greek organizations may hinge membership and leadership on sex, and the a cappella group, the “Hawkapellas,” is limited to women.

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Seventh Circuit Upholds Termination of High School Teacher Who Objected to Pronoun Policy

JonathanTurley

There is an important ruling this month out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which ruled against former high school music teacher John Kluge for refusing to comply with the school’s pronoun policy for religious reasons. What is most curious about the ruling is the timing. 2000e-2(a)(1). Hardison , 432 U.S.

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Eleventh Circuit Rejects Transgender Student’s Challenge to Bathroom Policy

JonathanTurley

On December 30, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit handed down a major opinion in in Adams v. The court ruled 7-4 against a statutory and constitutional challenge of a transgender student to a district policy requiring students to use bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex. 1731 (2020).

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Hochul’s Circular Firing Squad: Federal Court Rules Against New York’s Gun Law

JonathanTurley

I previously wrote about the latest New York gun law passed after the Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Suddaby issued a temporary restraining order against a substantial part of the law, including barring the provisions previously discussed as presumptively unconstitutional. Instead, Gov.