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Chief Justice Roberts adopts some gender-ideology language in upholding youth gender-transition ban

1 week ago | ij.org | Greg Piper

The Supreme Court gave transgender activists and the gender ideology movement a possible lifeline Wednesday in upholding Tennessee's law prohibiting puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery as treatment options for gender-confused youth, presumably protecting similar laws in half the states: It adopted much of their language. The 6-3 majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts in Skrmetti v.
The Supreme Court makes the right call in the FBI ‘wrong house’ case - The Washington Post

1 week ago | ij.org | George F. Will

The Chicago Police Department’s motto is: “We serve and protect.” Philadelphia’s is: “Honor. Integrity. Service.” Dallas’s is: “One city, one team.” Atlanta’s FBI office motto might be: “Oops!”Last week, the Supreme Court unanimously held that the victims of a bungled predawn raid can sue members of the six-member SWAT team that was looking for drug dealers. With guns drawn, the agents used a battering ram to smash the front door of, and threw a stun grenade into, the wrong house.
Maine Case Opens New Battleground for School Choice: The Right to Discriminate

1 week ago | ij.org | Linda Jacobson

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter In a landmark 2022 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court said states can’t exclude faith-based schools from voucher programs because they practice religion. That opinion, Carson v. Makin, turbocharged the spread of private school choice programs across red states. Now Christian schools in Maine, where the case originated, want the courts to go even further.
My Forthcoming Article on " Public Use, Exclusionary Zoning, and Democracy"

1 week ago | ij.org | Ilya Somin

Susette Kelo's famous "little pink house," which became an iconic symbol of the Kelo case (Institute for Justice). (Institute for Justice) The twentieth anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London is coming up on June 23.
'Conversion therapy' at SCOTUS: Overturn ban without hurting other speech rights, libertarians urge

1 week ago | ij.org | Greg Piper

Therapist Kaley Chiles has broad support from First Amendment scholars, religious and pro-life groups, detransitioners and doctors who challenge mainstream medical dogma and the Trump administration at the Supreme Court, which will hear her challenge to Colorado's ban on talk therapy for minors that does not affirm same-sex attraction or gender identity.
Your next hairstylist or barber may not have a license: new Iowa law sets training option

1 week ago | ij.org | Kaelei Whitlatch

A new Iowa law adds a new option for people in training to become a barber or cosmetologist in the state. New establishment training programs give permission for people to learn under supervision of an experienced provider, allowing trainees to perform services on clients without a license and without having to go to school. Governor Kim Reynolds signed it into law on June 6. The new training is in addition to existing educational opportunities.
Brickbat: That's Not Funny

1 week ago | ij.org | Charles Oliver

Free Speech | (Jose Maria Ruiz | Dreamstime.com) In Riverview, Missouri, James Carroll faces a city-issued subpoena, signed by Mayor Michael Cornell, after posting an online joke implying the mayor was involved in a 15-year-old boy's disappearance. The incident began when Carroll shared a photo of the missing boy on a local Nextdoor group, humorously suggesting, "Someone check Riverview's mayor's basement!" Days later, he found the subpoena at his condo, demanding he appear at city hall to...
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

2 weeks ago | ij.org | John Ross

Politics Discretionary lawn care, Agent Orange, and banished from South Georgia. | Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
Judge rules town's attempts to force bakery to take down pastry mural 'unconstitutional'

1 month ago | ij.org | Paul Feely

A federal judge ruled Monday that the town of Conway’s attempt to force a local bakery to take down a mural of doughnut mountains painted by high school art students was “unconstitutional,” and he ordered local officials to stop any efforts at enforcement. Monday’s ruling followed a one-day trial on Feb.
Federal Court Sides with Tennessee Civil Rights Lawyer Daniel Horwitz, Rules Attorneys Cannot Face Contempt for Private Speech

1 month ago | ij.org | Tom Pappert

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee last Thursday amended its local rules following a nearly three-year fight by Nashville-based civil rights attorney Daniel Horwitz, who filed a federal lawsuit after the court issued a gag order which prevented him from discussing a case against the private prison company, CoreCivic. Horwitz filed the federal lawsuit last October, about two years after he was subject to a gag order over his public statements regarding CoreCivic.