A court challenge to an unusual agreement between the Miami-Dade sheriff and a law firm will set Florida law on whether police can pay private lawyers on contingency to litigate civil asset forfeiture cases.
The Supreme Court looks ready to further insulate rights-violating federal officers from facing civil liability.
Houston police issued over 100 tickets to Food Not Bombs activists for violating an anti–food sharing ordinance. That violated their First Amendment rights, a judge ruled.
An ACLU complaint says the couple was recording ICE agents when they chased, boxed in, and vandalized the couple's car.
The administration argues that it must detain an illegal immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for 20 years while removal proceedings occur. Is that what the law says?
Plus: How a conservative Supreme Court justice ushered in “the birth of modern zoning.”
Plus: Kagan is still defending the Court from the “bum rap” that it is pro-Trump.
The justices will decide the case later this term.
Plus: Two notable cases this week at the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court will soon have a chance to rein in excessive fines.
The conservative justice seems to favor the kind of results-oriented judging that originalists are supposed to oppose.
"I think courts are going to be very suspicious of how broad this is," one Minnesota lawyer tells Reason.
The reports found medical care that "deviated beyond safe limits" in dozens of cases where ICE detainees died in custody.
Californians can now sue federal officers for civil rights violations, but cops can still claim qualified immunity as a bona fide defense for official misconduct.
It was Flock that led cops to the wrong woman. It was police who ignored the other evidence and jailed her.
Being on a construction site "does not open the floodgates to warrantless government intrusion," a federal judge ruled in a lawsuit filed by a construction worker who has been detained three times by ICE.
The ACLU says Hunter Demster's arrest shows a continuing campaign of intimidation and retaliation by the Memphis Safe Task Force.
The conservative legal movement may be winning big at the Supreme Court. But Trump is not.
A notable legal defeat for the Trump administration
After an ICE watcher in Springfield won a temporary injunction against ICE in a First Amendment lawsuit, the agency moved the officers accused of harassing him out of town.
Unwise policies are not always unlawful policies.
The chief justice finds himself in dissent in his latest showdown with the president.
Plus: SCOTUS allows Trump’s White House ballroom construction to proceed.
But the legal fighting will continue in the lower courts.
A Justice Department report documents California's failure to protect incarcerated women from sexual assault going back decades.
A major separation-of-church-and-state case lands at the Supreme Court.
The 2nd Circuit is the latest federal circuit court to find a First Amendment right to record the police.
Less than two months after losing at SCOTUS, Trump tries again with more misguided executive orders.
A federal appeals court ruled that Curtis Whateley's anti-police vanity plate was private speech protected by the First Amendment. Virginia says it will seek review from the Supreme Court.
The Oregon senator's "For Our Republic Act" would check many of the president's abuses while preserving the powerful federal state he commands.
The company’s attempts to protect Americans’ privacy “will do nothing to protect innocent people from warrantless mass surveillance,” says an Institute for Justice attorney.
The Democratic nominee won five swing states by less than one percentage point. Then things got crazy.
Property rights are no less worthy of protection just because intangible property is at stake.
The two measures combine unconstitutional provisions with performance art.
The “father of the Constitution” worried about federal and state overreach.
The liberal justice wants the Supreme Court’s harshest progressive critics to chill out.
Michael Soyfer, an attorney at the Institute for Justice, calls it “just the tip of the iceberg.”
Constitutional limits on federal authority should not be partisan matters.
Will they be held responsible for the illegal search and the damage to his property?
What’s at stake in Ream v. U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Plus: San Francisco slashes affordable housing mandates, wide support for streamlining environmental review, and Mamdani's rent ripoff report.
Leonard Hoffmann and his neighbors in North Dakota went to court to fight for fair market value—as the Constitution promises—after WBI Energy Transmission said it would take their land at a discount.
Plus: An unconstitutional war is back on.
From executive power to civil liberties, what to make of a momentous year at SCOTUS?
The conservative justice pushed for greater executive authority even in cases in which Trump won.
Why Trump lost big in the Supreme Court cases he cared the most about
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